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Topic: How to use the Extended layout in Keyboard mapping

The use of Extended layout feature is not explained in the manual. How do I make one instance of (standalone) Pianoteq into a single quarter-tone piano with 2*88=176 keys? I'm sending midi from two keyboards, each on their own channel. (That I can do in a DAW with two instances of the Pianoteq plug-in although it would be better to have all the notes resonating in a single modeled instrument).
And how do I make multi-key instruments with a different .scl/.kbm pair on each midi channel? Isn't that what the Extended layout feature is for?

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Re: How to use the Extended layout in Keyboard mapping

I am not sure that can be done.

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Re: How to use the Extended layout in Keyboard mapping

The current implementation of multi-channel kbm is not the one from scala (it was not suitable to us to have 1 different kbm file for each channel). It is more restricted. You choose the “main” MIDI channel, i.e. the midi channel that will contain the diapason note. On that channel Pianoteq will try to fit as many notes as possible , and then for the next channel it will transpose everything by one octave, etc.

For example if the “main” channel is chosen as MIDI channel 2, for a twelve-tone scale, playing (note 60 channel 2) will have the same pitch as (note 48 channel 3), and also (note 36 channel 4), (note 72 channel 1) and (note 84 channel 16), (note 96 channel 15).

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Re: How to use the Extended layout in Keyboard mapping

Thank you. Unfortunately my MIDI keyboards for this setup are USB controllers with mini keys, and can't be split to send MIDI notes on more channels than one, so I'll have to do this using two instances of Pianoteq in a DAW.