The timing of this video...I just started diving into midi with my q-chord and can't seem to find any solution to its issues... lo and behold, you upload this a month ago. Remarkable. Thanks so much for your time and dedication to sharing this with others man, huge help! Any further development on seeing if this will work with Ableton? I will be attempting this on my Mac later tonight. I see PD is available for both Windows and Apple so I'll be sure to report back on my finding for anyone that's diving into the comments... again, really appreciate this bro!
Definitely post any Mac info you find, as I don't have one to test on currently. (I do have an iPad I might toy with though). I haven't been successful in Ableton, but I think you may also be able to run Reaper inside Ableton as a VST (not 100% sure on that), but that would be one option if you can't get Ableton to do what you need on it's own. (It has so many options it surely can, I just couldn't figure it out).
I don't have experience with Logic Pro, but if they have any way you can insert VST's (as effects preferably) and also chain them in a specific order, then it would work. At the very least, see if you can insert them at all. They are considered "VST's" even though they are technically MIDI filters.
The cable in the video is one from Amazon that DOES NOT work, so avoid that type of cable. I wound up using my Tascam Model 12 which has MIDI in and I plugged a regular MIDI cable into that. It was one you can get at any Guitar Center or music gear store. But you'll need some kind of MIDI interface to interact with your computer. In my case I'm using the Tascam Model 12 as my interface, but that's rather expensive. I just already had it for other purposes and decided to try it when the cable did not work.
Thank you so much. This is so helpful. I basically got rid of my qchord because of the lame sounds and seemingly unusable midi implementation. Do you happen to know if there is a hardware replacement for the two plugins you mentioned? I would like to use a q chord to control some of my hardware synths. Do you know if this is possible?
One way to do it would be to do the same method I did, with a MIDI interface that allows you to send the final MIDI back out of the computer and into your devices. There are some MIDI interfaces that have multiple ins and outs and should allow you to route things the way you need to, but it might be pretty complex to set up.
I believe the rhythm MIDI is on channel 10, so you would just allow that channel when filtering all the channels. I am not sure about the chords. The Suzuki website has a PDF of the manual, and I think it has a list of all the MIDI channels in there, so you can find out which numbers to filter for to get what MIDI data you want. I found a copy of it here, on that "Pop's Music" website: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/www.popsmusic.com/uploads/3/0/6/8/30682235/qchord_instruction_book.pdf
*CORRECTION: There are more than 10 built in sounds, there's 100! And I made a video demo of EVERY sound: ua-cam.com/video/BuwFWhgyG70/v-deo.html
I was just posting a correction about that.
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The timing of this video...I just started diving into midi with my q-chord and can't seem to find any solution to its issues... lo and behold, you upload this a month ago. Remarkable. Thanks so much for your time and dedication to sharing this with others man, huge help!
Any further development on seeing if this will work with Ableton?
I will be attempting this on my Mac later tonight. I see PD is available for both Windows and Apple so I'll be sure to report back on my finding for anyone that's diving into the comments... again, really appreciate this bro!
Definitely post any Mac info you find, as I don't have one to test on currently. (I do have an iPad I might toy with though). I haven't been successful in Ableton, but I think you may also be able to run Reaper inside Ableton as a VST (not 100% sure on that), but that would be one option if you can't get Ableton to do what you need on it's own. (It has so many options it surely can, I just couldn't figure it out).
Has anyone used the PiZ midi tools with Logic Pro? I’m dying to get my q chord working with logic.
I don't have experience with Logic Pro, but if they have any way you can insert VST's (as effects preferably) and also chain them in a specific order, then it would work. At the very least, see if you can insert them at all. They are considered "VST's" even though they are technically MIDI filters.
Did you use a cable you already had or did you find a good one anywhere? Thanx!
The cable in the video is one from Amazon that DOES NOT work, so avoid that type of cable. I wound up using my Tascam Model 12 which has MIDI in and I plugged a regular MIDI cable into that. It was one you can get at any Guitar Center or music gear store. But you'll need some kind of MIDI interface to interact with your computer. In my case I'm using the Tascam Model 12 as my interface, but that's rather expensive. I just already had it for other purposes and decided to try it when the cable did not work.
Thank you so much. This is so helpful. I basically got rid of my qchord because of the lame sounds and seemingly unusable midi implementation. Do you happen to know if there is a hardware replacement for the two plugins you mentioned? I would like to use a q chord to control some of my hardware synths. Do you know if this is possible?
One way to do it would be to do the same method I did, with a MIDI interface that allows you to send the final MIDI back out of the computer and into your devices. There are some MIDI interfaces that have multiple ins and outs and should allow you to route things the way you need to, but it might be pretty complex to set up.
Thanks for the video! Do you know if it is possible to also route the midi chords, bass and rhythm tracks?
I believe the rhythm MIDI is on channel 10, so you would just allow that channel when filtering all the channels. I am not sure about the chords. The Suzuki website has a PDF of the manual, and I think it has a list of all the MIDI channels in there, so you can find out which numbers to filter for to get what MIDI data you want. I found a copy of it here, on that "Pop's Music" website: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/www.popsmusic.com/uploads/3/0/6/8/30682235/qchord_instruction_book.pdf
Awesome thanks! I'll check it out and post my findings here