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Motu digital performer9/19/2023 Because each MPE event type is accessible through DP’s Sequence Editor lanes, you can easily tighten up out-of-tune pitch-bend values for individual notes in a chord, or adjust other MPE controller events.Įditing individual controller events by hand is a muse-killer if ever there was one. DP’s Sequence Editor screen can now toggle between individual lanes with note-by-note MIDI and track data. My keyboard chops aren’t exactly virtuosic, and playing chords on my Roli Seaboard can get funky (in the wrong way), with the intonation of some notes landing a bit too sharp or flat. In the Plug-in’s assignment window, simply change the settings from MIDI 1 to MPE and you’re good to go. MOTU has also endowed a batch of their built-in synths with MPE capabilities. In DP, once you have defined your controller as an MPE device ( see my tutorial for setting up MPE and Multi-Channel tracks in DP 11), you are ready to wring expression out of any MPE-capable synth, such as FXPansion Strobe 2, Rhizomatic Plasmonic, Roli Equator, or Arturia Pigments. The latter two required minimal finagling, and the former took two or three clicks in a single pane.Īlthough it’s similar to multi-channel MIDI, MPE requires a different set of protocols shared between controller and synth. MPE deploys a similar multichannel approach so that notes can respond independently to channel-based MIDI control messages.īecause DP MIDI tracks can now record data from multiple channels, there’s no longer any need to create a track for each channel – you simply set the output of the target device to “ any.” Rhizomatic Software’s Plasmonic proved to be a perfect pairing for my MIDI guitar and DP’s Multi-Channel MIDI tracks, as did UVI Falcon and Spectrasonics Omnisphere. Those of us who play MIDI string instruments relied on MIDI Mode 4, a setup that allows data such as pitchbend to be issued independently from each string. Prior to version 11, DP MIDI tracks were strictly one MIDI channel per track, so using MIDI Polyphonic Expression required a bit of hoop-jumping – as did setting up tracks for MIDI guitar or other multichannel controllers. Here are some of the notable updates in DP11. But in my (highly controversial) opinion, none has done so with the craft, creativity, and depth of DP. To be sure, most of the other software packages have proceeded apace. We even have virtual recording studios as plug-ins within our virtual recording studios! Being a modern-day DAW, DP11 hosts racks of synthesizers, MIDI and audio processors, it syncs to picture, has music notation, compositional tools… so much more.
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