Hi Frido,

Yes, the Keyswitches in StudioOne are not working by default. StudioOne hijacks the Keyswitches that are sent by the Synchron Player for it's internal Articulation Switching system. When you open the Sound Variations window, you can Switch the Articulations there by clicking with the mouse (or inside the Synchron player as well), or inside a recorded MIDI event, you can of course assign the Articulations (the intended use case I would assume).

However, when you change the Sound Variation "mode" from "Enable Keyswitches" to "Use Activation Sequence", you can use your Keyboard to Keyswitch as you normally would do when you Switch while playing. The ability to assign the Articulations inside the Sound Variation Lane then is still possible, so "best of both worlds". You find this setting when you click the wrench in the Sound Variations lane of the MIDI Editor. Then you see allthe Switches laid out - on top you see the name of the Patch, and right next to it to the right you should see "Enable Keyswitches" - click this dropdown and select "Use Activation Sequence" (See attached Screenshot)

Short explanation on the "intended use case I assume": You would input notes with a long patch, get the stuff in, riding faders or whatever. Then you would edit that MIDI sequence and shorten/lengthen note, move them, assign articulation to shape the performance. That's how I currently mainly work as well. As said in the second paragraph - change to "Use Activation Sequence" and you can use the Keyswitches while playing (or to select beforehand via MIDI-Keyboard).

I hope that helped,

Best, Mat

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Yeah, I just checked - the "live record KS" definitely seems to be an oversight on PreSonus' part there. I see the use case, especially for people who create their own KS layouts and have e.g. a small Keyboard on their Desk for exactly that purpose (and have practice live switching).

Glad the core issue is so far solved though -  For fast Articulation editing/entry, I recommend that you assign a Hotkey to the "Find and Apply Variation" Action (Menu: Studio One -> Keyboard Shortcuts). That way a small window pops up and you can quickly type the Articulation you want for the selected notes (e.g. start typing "bol" and the first Articulation with "bol" in it is suggested, for example "Short Notes - Bold") and simply hit Enter and boom. That can speed up a whole lot as well, especially if you use a Streamdeck or AutoHotkey or the like.

Best, Mat

Mat,

Thank you very much for explaining how to regain access to the keyboard keyswitching in Studio One.

(It's quite unintuitive for Presonus that the default setting of "enable key switches" actually disables the ability for us to manually use the keyswitches!. And to enable active manual keyswitching requires changing the default to "Use Activation Sequence" -- which doesn't refer to keyswitching. A bit bizarre.

Also quite sad that we cannot record live via manual keyswitching. Also seems like an oversight. Maybe they will add this as a feature to come. 

Post-recording of the notes, it is a great system!

Craig