MIDI Learn

MIDI Learn connects a physical control to a control on screen: turn a knob on your controller and a filter moves in Nota.

Mapping a control

1. Click MIDI in the transport bar. Everything you can map lights up.

2. Click the control in Nota you want to move — a knob, fader, switch, macro…

3. Move a knob or fader on your controller (or press a pad, a gamepad button, or move a phone control). The mapping is made; mapped controls stay outlined in teal.

4. Map more, then click MIDI again to finish.

What you can map

Every parameter of the built-in instruments, effects and MIDI effects (switches, envelopes and filters included), plug-in parameters, track volume, pan, mute and solo, the master, the transport, rack macros, and the mute and solo of rack chains and Drum Rack pads.

Sources can be a CC, a MIDI note, a gamepad button, stick or trigger (macOS), or a control on a phone running Nota Remote — all in one table.

• A button or note is momentary: it flips a switch once when pressed, and holds a continuous control at the top of its range until released.
• A knob, fader, stick or trigger drives a continuous control over its whole travel, and flips a switch as it crosses halfway.

The MIDI map

The browser’s MIDI map tab lists every mapping: the control, its source (CC 74 · ch1, Note 36 · ch10, Pad · Left stick ↑↓, Phone · XY X), an editable output range, Invert, and delete. Mappings are saved with the project.