About Digitaize Connect
The Digitaize Connect App allows you to connect your Digitaize device to any computer, tablet or smartphone and create virtual MIDI ports to make music in your preferred DAW.
This Receiver Software allows to manage multiple instruments and manage their parameters separately. Here you will discover all the features if Digitaize Connect.
A System Tray App
Digitaize Connect is a system Tray App and will appear, once installed in the top bar of your computer
The Digitaize Cloud
The Digitaize Cloud allows you to see any Digitaize device connected and in range. To start using one of the devices, just click on the button “Select”. Your instrument will then be selected and the main app controls will appear automatically.
If you are connecting in Bluetooth MIDI mode scroll down to the end of the Digitaize Cloud and click on “Bluetooth”. The system Bluetooth window will appear.
Instrument Window
Once your Digitaize device is connected and registered, it will appear in the upper section of the software as a drop down tab. Click on the arrow in the top left corner to open up all the instrument specific settings.
Presets
We introduced an easy and fast way to store presets, accessible from the main panel. Just select any of the presets. Any change you do in any of the settings window will be automatically stored to the selected preset.
Main Setting Window
In this window you can make the most important MIDI and playing-related settings for your Digitaize instrument. Let’s discover them here in detail:
Playing Profiles
Playing profile are tailor made sets of complex hardware-software settings, which we customised to cover most application user cases as possible.
We created 4 different playing profiles to choose:
- AUDIO PRIORITY – Pitch detection relies mainly on the microphone input data. The most accurate playing mode.
- SENSOR PRIORITY – Pitch detection prioritises the sensor data. Robust playing mode, ideal for very loud environments.
- AUDIO ONLY – This profile uses only audio-based pitch detection. The sensor is deactivated.
- SENSOR ONLY – MIDI Notes are triggered by tapping the fingerboard. Open strings will not sound in this mode.
Pitch Bend
Pitch bend allows a flawless change of the pitch while sliding throughout a single string without triggering a new midi note-on messages every half-tone step.
IMPORTANT: Please set the pitch bend range to the same value as the destination synthesizer/sampler in your DAW!
MIDI Routing
MIDI can be routed in 2 different ways:
- MIDI Single Channel Routing – select the MIDI channel for each string individually using the drop-down menus.
- MIDI MPE – when enabled, all instrument strings are treated as separate voices, which gives a great advantage when using individual pitch-bend information within one software synthesizer.
Envelope Settings
RISE – it smooths out the attack time of the input amplitude of the instrument.
FALL – it smooths out the release time of the input amplitude of the instrument.
MIDI Note Velocity Settings – Note Onset
THRESHOLD – set the velocity that has to be reached in order to trigger a new note on. Turn it up when playing in a loud environment to avoid unexpected note triggering, or if you want to get very short note attacks with quick release times. For more legato-like sound you might want to go down with this setting.
GAIN – it multiplies the midi note input velocity in range of *0.5 to *4
Note: this setting works independently from the Midi Onset Gain knob, which is scaling the note-on velocity “post” threshold.
Midi CC Assignments/scaling
All sensor data available in Digitaize can be sent as MIDI CC. In the upper left side of the MIDI CC section, a MIDI CC controller number can be adjusted to the currently selected sensor. The function table scales the input values to any user defined curve. To add a new point onto the table, simply click with the mouse anywhere within the display and a new point will be generated. To move the point, click and drag it. To remove a point, press the SHIFT key and while holding it, click on the desired point. To enable/disable sending individual MIDI CC messages click on the gray rectangle below the sensor names (the Motion Y is enabled per default).
Utilities
Open Utility in the main bar and click to see the full list of additional features.
Settings – open the OSC / extras setting window
Digitaize Support Centre – open the support website
Check for updates – check for the newest version of this software
Export App Log File – If you experience any issues with the DigitAize you can export a log file and attach it to your contact support form.
Firmware Update Tool – a built-in tool for updating the USB-HUB and Unit’s firmware
Restore Defaults – remove all known units (an app restart is needed after doing it)