MIDI & Keyboard Setup
A MIDI keyboard does not carry the audio from RFM Space. It sends performance information: notes, velocity, controllers and — depending on the device — expressive data. RFM Space uses that information to play and control the modules in your Space.
Connect the keyboard
- Connect the keyboard or controller by USB or through a MIDI interface.
- Make sure the device is visible to the operating system.
- Open the MIDI-related settings in RFM Space and enable the input you want to use.
- Create or open a simple playable Space and verify that incoming notes reach the intended musical layer.
Musical buses A–Z
RFM Space can organise performance information with musical buses A through Z. A bus lets related modules respond as one musical layer without repeating the same note, gate and expression routing everywhere. A simple instrument can stay on one bus; larger Spaces can use separate buses for independent instruments, controllers or performance layers.
Keyboard module or external keyboard?
You can work with an external controller, RFM Space's own keyboard facilities, or both. The important question is not where the notes come from but which bus or destination receives them. Keeping that separation in mind becomes particularly useful when a Space contains several instruments.
Nothing happens when you play?
Check the input device first, then the MIDI/bus assignment, then the receiving modules. MIDI activity alone does not guarantee sound: the patch still needs an oscillator or other source, a valid audio path and an open output stage.
If your controller supports per-note expression, continue with MPE Setup. Otherwise you are ready for Your First Space.