Keyboard controlled Sounds in Kyma can be played using a standard MIDI keyboard (or other source of MIDI note events), using the eraser end of a Wacom pen and tablet, using the Keyboard or Tonnetz tabs within Kyma Control, or using a Soundplane, Continuum, LinnStrument, or Seaboard RISE, or a combination of several controllers.

Kyma automatically puts the Seaboard into MPE mode when you connect it via USB-MIDI. Once connected, any keyboard-controlled Sound on MIDI channel 1 in Kyma automatically sets the polyphony and responds to the Seaboard — no extra controllers are needed, and you don’t have to select a special mode on the Seaboard — it’s literally, plug it in and play.

Setting up the Seaboard RISE

When using the RISE (or any MPE keyboard), please configure Kyma as follows:

  • choose Configure MIDI from the DSP menu and set Continuum and MPE Configuration to Automatic
  • choose Preferences from the Edit menu, click the Performance button and make sure that External MIDI Controller is not set to either MotorMix or BCF2000

You can connect the Seaboard to the Pacamara in one of three ways:

  1. Direct USB connection to the USB port on the back of the Pacamara
  2. Via USB-C, with the Continuum connected directly to the host computer’s USB port (Host USB)
  3. Direct MIDI connection to the Pacamara’s audio interface’s MIDI ports
  4. Via Kyma Connect, with the LinnStrument connected directly to the host computer’s USB port

When not using a direct connection to the back of the Pacamara, you must connect both MIDI input and MIDI output in order for MPE to work properly. In addition, you should set Continuum and MPE Configuration to Manual with ROLI Seaboard MPE.

If you have connected the Seaboard directly to the back of your Pacamara, choose Rescan from the drop down menu in the DSP Status window, then select the Seaboard RISE as the MIDI Input. To combine the Seaboard with other MIDI devices, select the Seaboard RISE as the MIDI Output and then select the combination as the MIDI Input.

Note that while several MPE controllers can be connected to the Pacamara, only a single MPE controller can be selected at any one time (but it can be combined with standard MIDI keyboards and other controllers). The MPE controller can control Sounds that are on MIDI channel 1; other selected controllers can control Sounds on channels 2 and higher.

Note that the CM Labs MotorMix uses some of the same MIDI messages that many MPE devices use, so, in certain circumstances, the seventh fader of the MotorMix will not operate properly.