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Topic: Gradually Morphing Instruments - Struggling!

Hi all,

At the moment I"m trying to produce something with Pianoteq which will need the instrument to morph gradually throughout the performance. I can get a sudden change by assigning the morph functionality to my Una cord pedal, for instance. However, what I really need to do I add the morphing 'gradient' into the MIDI file post performance.

I've been trying to achieve this will GarageBand, but none of the midi controls will assign to the morphing feature. Does anyone know of a way around this or a DAW that will allow me to accomplish this?

Thanks!

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hougtimo wrote:

Hi all,

At the moment I"m trying to produce something with Pianoteq which will need the instrument to morph gradually throughout the performance. I can get a sudden change by assigning the morph functionality to my Una cord pedal, for instance. However, what I really need to do I add the morphing 'gradient' into the MIDI file post performance.

I've been trying to achieve this will GarageBand, but none of the midi controls will assign to the morphing feature. Does anyone know of a way around this or a DAW that will allow me to accomplish this?

Thanks!

Don't worry - bought Logic Pro and it's easy as pie!

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Re: Gradually Morphing Instruments - Struggling!

In GarageBand you can use automation with the Morphing parameter that controls the slider between instruments to morph into.

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Re: Gradually Morphing Instruments - Struggling!

hougtimo wrote:

At the moment I"m trying to produce something with Pianoteq which will need the instrument to morph gradually throughout the performance. I can get a sudden change by assigning the morph functionality to my Una cord pedal, for instance. However, what I really need to do I add the morphing 'gradient' into the MIDI file post performance.

Most DAW apps have automation that can be applied to a recorded MIDI (or audio) file.

Here's an example of a morph from Pianoteq Bluethner to the MK1 tine e-piano.

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?f...to-MK1.mp3

I created a MIDI track in my DAW (Harrison Consoles Mixbus32C), added the Pianoteq VST (in my case, in Linux, the LV2 plugin). I opened the Pianoteq GUI in the DAW, created a morph using Bluethner and the MK1, right-clicked the morph-amount slider at left to assign a MIDI controller to it (I arbitrarily used MIDI CC 70).

After recording the MIDI track, I edited the automation for CC70 to gradually shift from 100% Bluethner to 100% MK1, in about a dozen discrete steps. Then I enabled the automation in the MIDI track to control the Pianoteq plugin as it produced the audio during playback, and that was then recorded into a stereo audio track, and that recorded audio is what produced the exported MP3 file above.

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Re: Gradually Morphing Instruments - Struggling!

The Morphing parameter is already assigned to the morphing slider (it's far down in the list in GarageBand though) so it's easy to have a continuous morph between instruments by drawing a straight line, as in this example from piano to vibes:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Q3eEGWZRR68b893V7

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Re: Gradually Morphing Instruments - Struggling!

Gilles wrote:

The Morphing parameter is already assigned to the morphing slider (it's far down in the list in GarageBand though) so it's easy to have a continuous morph between instruments by drawing a straight line, as in this example from piano to vibes:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Q3eEGWZRR68b893V7

That's a great idea. In the Mixbus32C DAW, I added an automation lane for the MIDI track and mapped it directly to the Pianoteq 7 "Morphing" Parameter, then drew a straight line with two control points at either end. Nice, smooth morphing automation while playing back the recorded MIDI file. A few cracks and pops occurred while monitoring playback, from Pianoteq's slight lag at implementing so many sequential morphing adjustments, but none of those artifacts were present in the final audio recorded to another track.

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