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Godel Globals

November 28, 2009

This panel includes settings that affect the input and output globally.

LVL

Sets the output gain for the arpeggiator notes. After changing it, the level is applied as a multiplier to the output velocity for all subsequent notes.

Any notes that were already playing still play at the previous set velocity; it can't be changed, because the note-on events were already sent to MIDI. So, to change the output level immediately from your musical instrument, use its own level control, or adjust the output mixer. To save the level with the snapshot, find a default level for the mixers in your other equipment, then adjust the level in Godel for changes across its snapshots.

VOICES

Sets the number of output voices in the custom voice allocation logic. To stop hung notes in other Reaktor instruments triggered by Godel, you must set this to the same number as the number of voices in your other Reaktor instruments. That may not be necessary when playing other musical instruments across MIDI, depending on your equipment.

MODE

Sets the behavior of the on-screen keyboard. If HOLD is off, the behavior is as follows. See the description of HOLD also, below.

• Trigger ~ Pressing a key causes it to be turned on briefly, then turned off again. This is useful, for example, to insert a transient replacement note into a playing arpeggio.
• Toggle ~ Pressing an inactive key activates it. Pressing an active key deactivates it.
• Transpose ~ Sets the single pitch which is applied as a global transposition to all instrument output, after all other transpositions and arpeggios, but before pitch remapping. All transposition is around middle C. If set to middle C (indicated with an arrow below the color keyboard display) there is no global transposition.

HOLD

When hold is off, notes play normally. When Hold is on, all notes remain on until a new note is played after all previously playing notes were released.

HOLD lets you build up an arpeggio with two fingers from MIDI. To do so, turn HOLD on and play the first note, but don't release it. Now play all the other notes, making sure you still have one note depressed. Then to replace the arpeggio, release all notes, then press a new one.

HOLD also changes the behavior of the on-screen keyboard when it is in TRIGGER mode. If you are playing the on-screen keyboard in TRIGGER mode, and you have HOLD on, then the notes remain on (they have no note-off events) until you press the REPLAY or OFF! buttons.

REPLAY

A special transient button to let you replace all active notes at once.

First there must be some notes on. Now turn REPLAY on. The next time you play a note, no matter how many notes are on previously, all the old notes turn off. REPLAY then turns itself off automatically.

OFF!

Turns off all active notes, clears all note buffers, and sends global MIDI off messages to all note pitches.

OFF! only affects the notes. The clock, SONGPOS position, and other panel settings do not change.

RECALL

Turns off all playing notes and restores the notes saved with the snapshot, without changing anything else.

To recall the rest of the snapshot, you can use MIDI program change or Reaktor's built-in snapshot panel. This transient button simply clears the note buffers, issues global MIDI note-off events, and restores the notes saved in the snapshot, in the same order as they were originally played.