by John Bowen » Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:25 pm
Jody,
This actually was a feature found many years ago in some synths - I don't remember which models, but I do remember having the ability to bend one note individually and separately from the others, primarily, as you say, to emulate things such as pedal steel guitar. I know we talked about it at Sequential. I think back then, though, that the pitch bend was only upper or lower note, and perhaps in a duophonic situation (my memory is not good on this, though).
In any case, this is not a function of the plug-in, as it requires a specialized voice handler function that the Scope modules do not have. What it takes is a way for the system to 'know' which voice currently playing is the target voice for pitch bending, and filtering out the pitch bend so that the other voices do not receive it. As you describe, the low/high/last note function is about the only way we can know which voice has 'special' assignment, since that's how functions such as re-triggering for legato mode must work. Since we have to do this already, I can ask as to how much more coding it would be handle the Pitch Bend signal in this way. No guarantees, though!
john b.
Jody,
This actually was a feature found many years ago in some synths - I don't remember which models, but I do remember having the ability to bend one note individually and separately from the others, primarily, as you say, to emulate things such as pedal steel guitar. I know we talked about it at Sequential. I think back then, though, that the pitch bend was only upper or lower note, and perhaps in a duophonic situation (my memory is not good on this, though).
In any case, this is not a function of the plug-in, as it requires a specialized voice handler function that the Scope modules do not have. What it takes is a way for the system to 'know' which voice currently playing is the target voice for pitch bending, and filtering out the pitch bend so that the other voices do not receive it. As you describe, the low/high/last note function is about the only way we can know which voice has 'special' assignment, since that's how functions such as re-triggering for legato mode must work. Since we have to do this already, I can ask as to how much more coding it would be handle the Pitch Bend signal in this way. No guarantees, though!
john b.