help assigning logic 8 - midi keyboard controller message

[badhorsie777]

I have an m-audio keystation 61es - it has a volume slider, a pitch bend, sustain pedal, and mod wheel. The default operation in logic 8 (express) is for that volume slider to control the volume slider of the selected track. I am trying to play my gofriller cello plugin, which wants to see an expression pedal to do volume changes. I want to assign that volume slider to send the expression pedal's signal... I've been searching that 900 page manual in logic to no avail. Anyone know how?

THanks,
Matt

[Dave Lewis]

There may be a way to change the message from the keyboard, I'm not familiar with it. You can definitely do it in Logic's environment, which , if you've never used it is incredibly powerful for stuff like that. I will try and run you through it:

Open an environment window, on the left is a drop-down menu which lets you choose the layer. Go to the clicks and ports layer. Under the local menu go to new/fader/vertical 5 (it could be any style or a transformer even). Make sure the new fader is selected, and there will be parameters on the left of the environment window. The output parameters should be control/channel 1/and -1- should be 11. Set the input to control/channel 1 and -1- to 7. the last step is to cable the fader, depending on how you want it to work. If you want volume changed to expression for all instruments, click-hold the triangle on the top right of whatever object is before the sequencer input object and drag the triangle onto your new fader, then make sure to cable the new fader to the sequencer object. The other way to do it, is to take a second output triangle (whenever you connect a cable it makes another parallel one) and cable that to your new fader, then open a second environment window, go to the audio layer and connect the fader directly to the audio instrument fader. Then it will only affect the cello channel.

[badhorsie777]

I set it up like you said, but it still only controls the channel volume (in the environment window, my moving the volume slider doesn't make my newly created fader move, but it does alter the channel volume in the arrange window). Any ideas?

[badhorsie777]

I got it - just connected the fader right after the physical input, for anyone who finds this thread and wants to do the same.