I get it. that range is just the MPE standard so i was asking.
Hopefully I didn't come over as hostile. You can already save Pianoteq MIDI pitch bend as +/-2400 which can be fun on some instruments with pitch bend control - instant midrange keyboard sounds to thumping clunky bass sounds!
Possibly going to hear aliasing if you push high frequencies.
]]>Yeah, it seems that the scale can be modified. Good Point! But more or less the default MPE bend range seems to be +/- 48st so it would make a lot of sense to have that option in Pianoteq so i wouldn't have to change my midi clip settings for just about every Pianoteq clip. and dragging the midi clip to other instruments would be a lot more seemless. And having a seperate pitch bend WHEEL range from the polyphonic MPE (polyphonic per-note bend range) would also be useful for traditional keyboard playing and then finer adjusting with the per note setting. that way the bend wheel on a midi controller could be for example five semitones (actually usable for live recording) and the individual note glide could be something like the 48st range to match the MPE/poly glide functionality.
I will respectfully suggest that it wouldn't make sense to give a ridiculous range of almost certainly unusable pitch bend just to satisfy your desire to use one specific DAW in a particular way, especially if pitch bend is adjustable to fit the range of any given plug-in, as I would expect.
I don't think many decent instruments have 4 octave pitch bend. It's suitable for some synth sounds - if emulating classic analogue ribbon pitch bend say.
2 semitones up and down tends to work well for live playing a pitch wheel without lots of very unmusical mistakes. A large ribbon or MPE controller rather different.
Can the Ableton scale not be adjusted to suit the instrument's own?
Seems like an oversight in Ableton not Pianoteq.
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]]>For use with Ableton and other, an update to have an option for +/- 48 semitone pitch bend would make the instrument so much more intuitive since that is what Ableton's piano roll uses. Please give us that option! I'm begging! And a koto instrument would be so cool to have with that polyphonic pitch bend
You want to bend the pitch up to 4 entire octaves?
What acoustic instruments sound natural with that?
Perhaps that's not your thinking though?
I suppose if it can be enabled (but not as default) that might be okay. I imagine as we are dealing with a physical modelling engine that it could sound really awful at some ranges.
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