B4 Controller Changelog

What's new in B4 Controller 1.2

Mar 19, 2010
  • NEW GUI
  • INVERTED KEYS - "UPPER MANUAL ONLY": if you active this function, the “Inverted Keys” function doesn’t work on the lower keyboard, but on the upper only, so that you can use the whole range of your lower keyboard, eventually in the "Pedals/Lower Split" mode.
  • PEDALS "COUPLER" AND "STACCATO": when the "Pedals/Lower Split" function and the “Ped./Lower Coupler” function are active, using the "pedals octaves" of your keyboard you can play in unison the pedals and the lower manual, as many great jazz organists do. Moreover you can choose to make the pedals sound “staccato” (like an upright bass, whilst the "meat of the bass" comes from the lower manual sound). According to Joey DeFrancesco, this is the secret to kicking bass (see Keyboard Magazine, n. 6/1999, page 50). Changing the value in the “Staccato” label you can activate/deactivate the “Staccato” mode and select the relevant length, expressed in milliseconds (from 20 to 400 ms).
  • Now you can activate/deactivate the B4 Controller's functions directly clicking on the black labels with your mouse's left button (whilst clicking on such labels with the right buttons allows to change the value shown on each label).

New in B4 Controller 1.1 (Mar 19, 2010)

  • Changed numbers' colors to make evident the different functions
  • Now an "All Notes Off" message is sent when pushing "Lower/Pedal Switch" control or "Upper/Low. Coupler" control to avoid the risk of hanging notes