Ample Guitar Midi Control Switches

[Roy Slough]

I am posting this to create discussion to help me and anyone else programming Ample Guitars.
I am having difficulties when using midi for the strummer section. When I try to add the control notes manually according to the manual they don't work.

I have found the keyboard shown in the Ample Guitar interface (1st Attachment) shows a keyboard ranging from C0 to B6
The keyboard shown in Cakewalk Piano Roll (2nd Attachment) with which you are all familiar, ranges from C0 to G10, The note C0 on the piano roll does NOT trigger C0 on the Ample Guitar keyboard. The C2 on the piano roll triggers C0 on the Ample guitar. 

This results in my transposing manually entered notes  when I am using modes in the Ample guitar (Strummer, riffer etc.) to achieve the desired results.
Any Midi copied from the Ample guitar does seem to put the control notes in the "correct" position (C2 etc.) but his is not what is specified in the manuals.

Please, anyone comment on this to help me and others using Ample Guitars in "special" modes. 
N.B. I am mostly working with the strummer mode when I can select Chords for the finger positions and strum patterns.
 

[Canopus]

28 minutes ago, Roy Slough said:

The note C0 on the piano roll does NOT trigger C0 on the Ample Guitar keyboard. The C2 on the piano roll triggers C0 on the Ample guitar. 

MIDI only deals with MIDI note numbers, so there is no set standard what C0 means in a MIDI context. Different developers have different preferences.

In Sonar you can adjust this setting in Edit > Preferences > Customization > Display | Base Octave for Pitches to your liking.

[msmcleod]

You're better off using Articulation Maps if you're using Ample Guitars rather than relying on MIDI notes.

@Creative Sauce did a great tutorial on how to use them with Ample Guitars:
 

 

 

[Kurre]

There's transpose in the track inspector on the midi tab.

It works on a miditrack that's routed to an instrument track. The instrument gets the transposed notes from that miditrack alone.

[Roy Slough]

On 8/1/2024 at 11:26 AM, Canopus said:

MIDI only deals with MIDI note numbers, so there is no set standard what C0 means in a MIDI context. Different developers have different preferences.

In Sonar you can adjust this setting in Edit > Preferences > Customization > Display | Base Octave for Pitches to your liking.

Thanks, I will investigate on my next project, There is little I use Below C2. Also when I copy Midi in I often need to transpose by 12, perhaps this might address that too.

[Roy Slough]

On 8/1/2024 at 1:20 PM, msmcleod said:

You're better off using Articulation Maps if you're using Ample Guitars rather than relying on MIDI notes.

@Creative Sauce did a great tutorial on how to use them with Ample Guitars:

 

Thanks, I will watch this.  I have tried Articulation maps a bit, then moved away as much preparation is required. But I did like some of the features.