Whats the best way to record a midi keyboard performance, using a midi keyboard, that allows for overdubbing with both pitch bend, modulation wheel, and any other various knobs, so that one knob does not overwrite a different knobs automation?
How does one use for example, a midi keyboard to do that? (without overwriting the pitch bend with the mod wheel, etc)
How would you use something like this (pictured below) to record various parameter automation in your Renoise project?
I disable “midi/modwheel recording” (this means renoise won’t write the commands to pattern data) in the preferences, midi map the controllers to some slider in an fx-chain (you can use inst-midi-control for recording pitch bend etc), and record them to automation graphs. Handling is finnicky, though. Once some graph is recorded, you have to clean it to re-record, or values will collide when trying to record again. Also midi recording seems to be fixed at one value per line (high lpb can help with resolution). Pitch bend sucks exceptionally, as the center value won’t give you a 0.5 but something like 0.504 - this can be remapped with a formula device in the chain - and if you can’t config your controller to send a cc with the pitch bend wheel (or aftertouch), you’ll have to use the duplex keyboard application.
I hope renoise gets more love in that regard in the coming versions, also in recording and handling live recorded automation data.