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Topic: Sostenuto pedal with diatonic mode not working as expected

Hello!

I used sostenuto pedal with diatonic mode of keyboard and the sostenuto doesn't apply to flatted-sharped notes.

I suppose the software is holding the pressed key without taking into account the pitch modification.

Not sure if this would be a coding oversight or intended behaviour!

The super sostenuto does not have the same behaviour! It operates as I would expect.

Edit: I should have said this is with Pianoteq version 7.4.2

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Re: Sostenuto pedal with diatonic mode not working as expected

The diatonic mode is for emulating the harp pedals by using muted black keys. Read the tooltip that shows on the D button for a full explanation.

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Re: Sostenuto pedal with diatonic mode not working as expected

Do you mean that you're not able to reproduce this sostenuto pedal behaviour?


Gilles wrote:

The diatonic mode is for emulating the harp pedals by using muted black keys. Read the tooltip that shows on the D button for a full explanation.

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Re: Sostenuto pedal with diatonic mode not working as expected

AdrianB wrote:

Do you mean that you're not able to reproduce this sostenuto pedal behaviour?


Gilles wrote:

The diatonic mode is for emulating the harp pedals by using muted black keys. Read the tooltip that shows on the D button for a full explanation.

Sorry, I misunderstood and I thought you meant using the black keys...

I guess you want to use the diatonic keyboard with a piano sound and indeed, there seems to be a bug. Pressing a sharpened D and depressing the sostenuto pedal does not keep the sound going when releasing the key, but it does for the neighboring E. Works ok for super sostenuto as you wrote.

It seems to work correctly for the concert harp (a la piano) though, if you select sostenuto for one of the default pedals.

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Re: Sostenuto pedal with diatonic mode not working as expected

Thank you yes! That's exactly what I observed, although I didn't think of testing it with a harp instrument.
Maybe someone from Modartt. will investigate.

Sorry, I misunderstood and I thought you meant using the black keys...

I guess you want to use the diatonic keyboard with a piano sound and indeed, there seems to be a bug. Pressing a sharpened D and depressing the sostenuto pedal does not keep the sound going when releasing the key, but it does for the neighboring E. Works ok for super sostenuto as you wrote.

It seems to work correctly for the concert harp (a la piano) though, if you select sostenuto for one of the default pedals.