Pan CC10 MSB + CC42 LSB Support Needed for Visually Impaired Listeners

Hi CoolSoft,

Thank you for your work on this excellent freeware.  Your generosity is deeply appreciated!

I have written an app for visually impaired users that rapidly sends MIDI commands to generate audio that represents huge sets of engineering data that would take screen reader apps days or weeks to speak out.  It allows users to “see” these in seconds or minutes the way sighted people view Cartesian graphs.  I'm working with a blind beta tester who says that it has changed her life and gives her the ability to work with data as a professional engineer.

It currently works fairly well with VirtualMIDISynth running my custom .sf2 that is configured to allow fine pan controls via continuous controller messages CC10 (pan Most Significant Byte) followed by CC42 (pan Least Significant Byte) before each note-on command.  But it sounds like the synth is ignoring CC42 and only panning in CC10's 0-127 value increments.

As you can imagine, when panning tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of data points across the stereo field, 128 steps is not a fine enough resolution for blind listeners, because it bunches up points together into pan steps that are clearly audible, especially for people who rely on listening rather than vision to see the world.

However, implementation of CC10 + CC42 for fine panning would allow 16,384 steps, which is ideal for this application.

Can you help by implementing this into a VirtualMIDISynth update?
Please let me know.

Best wishes,
Jason Glass

Thank you, Claudio.  I appreciate your helpful response very much.

I joined the BASS forum and posted a similar inquiry there.  I hope Ian is willing to help.  https://www.un4seen.com/forum/?topic=20575.0

Have a nice weekend!

Jason Glass wrote:

Here are links to his forum reply and the update zip.

Great!

Since the updated bassmidi.dll should be compatible with the one bundled with VMS, you can now try the updated BASSMIDI by yourself on your system:

• download and open bassmidi.zip archive
• extract the contained bassmidi.dll library (mind the bitness: on a 64bit system you must extract the one contained in x64 folder)
• replace the one originally installed with VirtualMIDISynth (you could rename the original one…)
• test VirtualMIDISynth with the new library

If everything works as expected, report the success to Ian (I'm subscribed to the thread too…) so he can integrate changes into new releases.
I'll then update VirtualMIDISynth with the new version.