Folks, I am pretty surprised the newer instruments like the CP-70 V don’t have the “enable MPE” setting. I’d think this should be added by default to at least all of the new instruments, at this point, though I’d like it to appear in the older instruments, too.
I don’t even care too much about the MPE Y modulations, those obviously require some UI work, and the original Yamaha instrument had nothing of the sort.
But enabling the channel-specific pitch bend and the pitch bend range settings at least? These are super generic technical things, shouldn’t require a lot of work since you already support that in half of your plugins, and CP-70 V already supports pitch bend.
Hi @Pupkin
I’ve tweaked your post so it’s now a feature request and more likely to be seen by The Arturia Devs.
HTH!
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I would be surprised if any new work on MPE is undertaken at all, seeing as it will become unnecessary when MIDI 2.0 arrives.
It would therefore make more sense for developers to work on getting their plugins ready use the new 2.0 features. I read that FL Studio (Image Line) have confirmed they will not be adding MPE support to their plugins for this reason.
It would be fantastic if Arturia were to add new MPE capability to existing plugins, but I’m not holding my breath.
Let’s hope MIDI 2.0 arrives soon!
I don’t believe there are any controllers on the market utilizing all the capabilities of MIDI 2.0… Meanwhile there’s already a bunch of PolyAT and/or MPE ones. Including the Arturia’s own Polybrute 12.
And regardless, I believe MIDI 2.0 subsumes MPE, so the work largely overlaps. The main thing here is to track the pitch bend messages per voice, not as a single variable. This is needed for both MPE and MIDI 2.0. Took me literally a couple of hours to implement this in PureData - going from a single global variable to a per-voice variable. I suppose it would take a bit more time if you want to add the config menu also and add unit tests and go through the release process, but they already did this several times recently, including in the Mini V4 plugin. They have all the code, just didn’t include it here for some reason.
Yep, I’m guessing it’s more work than it seems. Your point is the exact same one being made to the Image Line folks, but then that’s a whole DAW.
Maybe Arturia will do it, especially as MIDI 2.0 won’t be here for a while yet.
I’m hankering after a Keystage or a KK S61 Mk3, for poly AT and (some) MIDI 2.0 readiness, but the sensible part of me says to wait for it all to settle down (the really not-sensible part says ‘Osmose’).