Pitchbend on a Single Note That's Part of a Chord

Hans Tammen's icon

Hi y'all,

working on a project that requires to send pitch bending of a single note that's part of a chord to an external plugin such as PianoTeq. The reason is to change the tuning of these notes dynamically, so simply dialing up a microtonal scale in PianoTeq won't work.

What's the best strategy here? PianoTeq doesn't do MPE, and I can't find a piano plugin that does. Maybe there are other approaches besides MPE+Pitchbend. Could be I don't see the forest for the woods. Just point me in the right direction!

Thanks, Hans Tammen

Roman Thilenius's icon

split the chord onto 2 midichannels and run 2 copies of the plug-in using the same preset.

inside max this is not a problem, for other hosts the OS level midi routing can be less fun, but that generally also works.

Hans Tammen's icon

Hi Roman,

that worked. Turns out that PianoTeq can receive notes (and pitchbends) on different MIDI channels and play them from a single instance. I was able to send four note chords into PianoTeq and change the pitch of each note individually. Ha!

Thanks, Hans