Hi folks,
recently I bought a SoftStep2 controller from Keith McMillen to play toontrack with my feet during playing piano with my hands. Unfortunately this foot controller cannot translate the pad pressure to a velocity number WITHIN the NOTE ON MIDI event. You only can define a separate CC (Continuous Contoller) which reacts corresponding to the Pressure.
I’ve already tried CC# 11 (expression) CC# 7 (volume) and CC# 60 (?!; the least only because 60 was proposed by the SoftStep2 Editor software automatically).
The CCs were definitely transmitted in each case (I checked it by recording and analyzing the MIDI data),
but toontrack EZD 2 doesn’t seem to react on any of these CCs. 
My EZD2 is hosted by EZD Standalone or Cantabile Performer 2 Pro or Cubase 8.
Any ideas anybody?
Kind regards
Volker
hqmusic
@juicy said:
Volume Control or CC7 info whilst being a Midi Parameter has nothing to do with a midi note velocity value.
It does control the volume of the midi instrument in context to a mix.
I know, but the foot controller forces the user to find a workaround, to get creative. The people of Keith Millen Instruments (KMI) tell me it should work by sending a CC simultaneously with the Note on event (but it does NOT work yet). The silly reason is that their firmware/software does not allow to control the Velocity parameter within the note event itself by the amount of pressure.
They propose to set and to transmit two commands for each foot pad action (see screenshot below!):
The Velocity value in the first line (they call them modlines) is STATIC and can not be influenced by pressure value (grmpfgrrumble!!!?§$!% 
!
Programming a single modline like this Pressure value –> Note Set, Note 49, Vel. 100 or 0 or 127 (e.g.) only results in a continuous fire of note triggering with every changing pressure value!
Any ideas for a workaround?? KMI + its forum don’t have!
Kind regards
Volker
