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SEQUENTIAL/DSI => OB-6 => Topic started by: chapelier fou on May 30, 2022, 04:56:35 AM

Title: Pan Spread and MPE
Post by: chapelier fou on May 30, 2022, 04:56:35 AM

It seems that, when used in MPE mode, each note has a fixed pan, while in regular MIDI mode, the panning changes at each press. It feels really static and annoying. Is there a reason for this ?

Title: Re: Pan Spread and MPE
Post by: kpatz on May 30, 2022, 06:07:21 AM

Quote from: chapelier fou on May 30, 2022, 04:56:35 AM

It seems that, when used in MPE mode, each note has a fixed pan, while in regular MIDI mode, the panning changes at each press. It feels really static and annoying. Is there a reason for this ?

I've never used MPE, but it sounds to me like the OB-6 assigns one voice per channel in MPE mode, and your MPE controller re-uses that channel for that note, similar to the Prophet-5 style of voice allocation.  In essence, the round robin allocation the OB-6 does normally is being overridden.  Can your MPE controller do its own round robining across the MPE channels?

Title: Re: Pan Spread and MPE
Post by: chapelier fou on June 02, 2022, 12:30:58 AM

I'm currently struggling to get my hands on the voice allocation system in Ableton, but it's....difficult.
Not totally sure it would solve the issue anyway.
Thanks for the answer !