Pan Spread and MPE

[chapelier fou]

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 ?

[kpatz]

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?

[chapelier fou]

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 !