Sending MPE Pressure and Timbre

Avneesh Sarwate's icon

Is there any way to send MPE pressure and Timbre messages with Max? the Mpeformat object only seems to allow sending per-note pitchbend

tyler mazaika's icon

If you open the help for mpeformat, you'll see that it basically just adds a layer of formatting to the standard midi messages. So for pressure you'd probably want to have a [midiformat] message getting messages in its 'aftertouch' inlet, and then send the output into the appropriate voice inlet of your mpeformat.

Not sure if you're looking in a Max for Live context, but in their 'MPE Control' device they essentially just use only [midiformat] object (no mpeformat) with the channel set for the specific voice they're trying to modify.