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July 6, 2023
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MIDI Keyboard or Best Alternative Recommendations

  • July 6, 2023
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Hi everybody,

I've been working with Ch for a while now and I find that I'm quickly running out of keyboard alphanumerical keys to use for trigger purposes (I wish we could assign more keys to triggers) so I'm thinking it might be time to invest in something to help the situation. I've seen people post about controlling triggers with a MIDI keyboard. I don't know the first thing about those. What's a good budget one to get, how do they work, and does anyone have recommendations on where to start? Or is there something totally different that I should be looking into?

I don't know if it's relevant, but I'm mostly working on a desktop PC and occasionally on a Surface laptop (laptop is much less relevant as it's getting on in age and may have to be replaced with something more animation-friendly soon anyway). Also, to clarify, I don't stream these animations live and what I see surrounding MIDI online seems to be geared more toward livestreams. Would it still work for plain ole recording?

Thanks! I appreciate any advice you can offer.

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Correct answer ElectroPuppet

It might be a silly question, but have you looked at using your controls panel to access your triggers?

 

I use the controls panel to trigger all my hands - and keyboard triggers for things like replays and facial expressions.

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ElectroPuppet
ElectroPuppetCorrect answer
Inspiring
July 7, 2023

It might be a silly question, but have you looked at using your controls panel to access your triggers?

 

I use the controls panel to trigger all my hands - and keyboard triggers for things like replays and facial expressions.

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    RaizelDesignAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 7, 2023

    It's not a silly question. I was under the impression that the controls panel was just a different interface for the triggers - that you still had to have a trigger key attached. I thought it was meant to make live stream easier and since I never do live streams and I'm pretty much always working in a time crunch, I haven't really looked into it. I guess I'm very wrong and I should check that out. Thanks for the suggestion!

      ElectroPuppet
      ElectroPuppet
      Inspiring
      July 8, 2023

      The controls panel is a visual interface to all your triggers. Perfect if you have triggers you don't want to assign a key to. As I said, my lesser used triggers I don't assign a key to - but I always have access to it via the controls panel. No limit to what you can create in there! I also organise the control panel so it is the same for every puppet.

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