Frank, you can get an external midi controller box that has nothing but knobs and sliders on it and assign one of the sliders to CC#1 and then control it from that. They can be bought for somewhere between about $130 and ? depending on what you get. Just Google for midi controllers and look around. I know Zzounds has an EMC-33 for around the $130 figure. Behringer also has an inexpensive one but I don't remember the model.

In the studio, there is a work-around; in whatever sequencer you use, after you start recording, move the joystick up and record a CC#1 event. In Sonar this will put a marker in the controller lane and Sonar will keep that value all the way through the song, but you have to do it for each track you record at the beginning of the track. Then later you can come back and draw in the controller curves to make the volume/timbre sound the way you want.

Tom

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