Sending pitch bend MIDI messages to musical keyboard

[JoeColeman]

Hello. I bought a CASIO WK-7600 76-key keyboard a few weeks ago. I have a project that I created in the LMMS DAW. I can use a drum track and 13 other tracks for all of the other Instruments. Every note plays but not at the volumes nor pitch-bent pitches that I desire. I'm going MIDI OUT from my laptop to MIDI IN into the CASIO (WK-7600). I know that I'm going the opposite way than posts that I've seen posted, but I'm trying to get the CASIO to play the automations and pitch bends that are in my LMMS project. I also have a brass sound that has a few automations in a couple of cross-over equalizers. That is a problem with me. It may be that LMMS is not set up to handle the automation (tracks) because it does not know how to send the message out to the CASIO, but I stand to be corrected. I don't think that my keyboard can record the project into memory, but only can play it back via MIDI although it is not playing back the automations. Can I get my CASIO to play back the project through my keyboard exactly as it does in LMMS on my laptop - ignoring the sounds I use in my CASIO for each track? That question may have been answered by someone already, but I couldn't find it answered yet.

[dave2002-lmms]

This is quite an interesting question. I don't know the whole answer.

FIrstly, can LMMS do pitch bends at all? Hopefully someone will come up with an answer and perhaps an example.

I thought I'd try testing this, so I made a score with pitch bends in Musescore and exported to Midi. The pitch bend is obvious if I play the Midi file in Garageband, so the Midi data is there.

I haven't been able to replicate this in LMMS - though there may be other factors. This makes me wonder whether LMMS does pitch bends at all.

Can you get the pitch bend effect you want in LMMS?

If so, then the next question is whether that will export to your Casio and drive it in the way you want.

If you can get an LMMS file which has the pitch bend which works for you, and you want others to test, then perhaps you could upload a sample - and maybe the midi as well - and others with keyboards could check. In the limit it might not be possible to test exactly the same hardware as you have, but some of us here have keyboards and could test a file to see if a pitch bend is output as you hope.

I could test a midi file, though perhaps not in the next day or two.

Good luck.