My response was depending on what you have to work with. As long as you understand the interaction of the two, the application will be better used.

In an existing MIDI (off the internet) CC7 may have been used throughout the song and you may *have* to use CC7 to accomplish the task.
OR
CC7 may be set too low to allow the swell you are looking for in a particular section, meaning CC7 would need to be increased to allow CC11 to work as desired. There are some synths out there where CC11 will actually change the timbre of the sound (as the form of 'expression'). Most however act as described in this thread and it is a sub-volume. For average BiaB user that is how they will always work.

You have to consider both CC's sometimes when working toward what you want to hear.
That's all I meant.

I don't consider CC7 to have a rule of being only used once at the beginning of the song; too many possible uses on too many different devices when used in conjuction with CC 11.
Remember; MIDI doesn't work only on GM compliant synths.. it can control many different devices.

Last edited by rharv; 01/15/12 08:10 AM.
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