Greetings. I downloaded Freestyle to try it out. I'm looking for a computer-as-performance-instrument application that's not MainStage. But there are a couple things I haven't figure out:
1. Does Freestyle pass multichannel MIDI information and how do you organize this? I use a Linnstrument, and what I want is to set up two MIDI instruments and filter them such that each MPE instrument gets 8 channels. Right now, it seems if I hit multiple notes in a MPE-capable synth, pitch bending one of them pitch bends them all. If this isn't possible, is it planned for a future update?
2. The snapshot functionality looks great, but is there a way to "reload" a snapshot? EG: I choose snapshot 2, I tweak a bunch of parameters (for instance, delay feedback) and then I want to instantaneously return to the settings in snapshot 2.
TIA.
Freestyle multichannel questions
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- KVRian
- 1177 posts since 2 Nov, 2006
Snapshots- sure, hit the reload symbol when you hover over the snapshot title on the right.jsterne wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 6:20 pm Greetings. I downloaded Freestyle to try it out. I'm looking for a computer-as-performance-instrument application that's not MainStage. But there are a couple things I haven't figure out:
1. Does Freestyle pass multichannel MIDI information and how do you organize this? I use a Linnstrument, and what I want is to set up two MIDI instruments and filter them such that each MPE instrument gets 8 channels. Right now, it seems if I hit multiple notes in a MPE-capable synth, pitch bending one of them pitch bends them all. If this isn't possible, is it planned for a future update?
2. The snapshot functionality looks great, but is there a way to "reload" a snapshot? EG: I choose snapshot 2, I tweak a bunch of parameters (for instance, delay feedback) and then I want to instantaneously return to the settings in snapshot 2.
TIA.
Regarding midi- the context menu available on the midi inlet node allows port and channel selection. Is that what you mean?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 268 posts since 25 Jul, 2010
Thanks for your reply. Is there a way to assign the reload option to an external button on a controller?
On MIDI, it looks like you can choose 1 channel or all in Freestyle, not a group of them. I've now tested it with several MPE-capable synths (and one that allows channel per note but isn't 100% MPE) and am getting the same behaviour--pitch bend on one note bends them all if you hit a chord. It doesn't matter if I choose 1 channel or all.
For MPE, each note gets its own channel in a sort of round robin way so that for each note you can have a different velocity, pitch bend, mod wheel, aftertouch, and release.
Here's a good explanation (I'm using Linnstrument so I'll go with Roger's explanation): https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/support ... hat-is-mpe
On MIDI, it looks like you can choose 1 channel or all in Freestyle, not a group of them. I've now tested it with several MPE-capable synths (and one that allows channel per note but isn't 100% MPE) and am getting the same behaviour--pitch bend on one note bends them all if you hit a chord. It doesn't matter if I choose 1 channel or all.
For MPE, each note gets its own channel in a sort of round robin way so that for each note you can have a different velocity, pitch bend, mod wheel, aftertouch, and release.
Here's a good explanation (I'm using Linnstrument so I'll go with Roger's explanation): https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/support ... hat-is-mpe
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- KVRAF
- 23101 posts since 7 Jan, 2009 from Croatia
I think as long as you can route all 16 MIDI channels to a single MPE capable plugin (i.e. Equator, Strobe, Surge...) it should work just fine, and Freestyle does have an option to route all MIDI channels from a particular MIDI input port to whatever plugin you want.
If you're trying to do this with MPE uncapable plugins, it might not be possible at this point.
If you're trying to do this with MPE uncapable plugins, it might not be possible at this point.
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- KVRAF
- 23101 posts since 7 Jan, 2009 from Croatia
OK yeah looks like Freestyle merges events from all channels to a single MIDI channel in case of "All". This might be a bug. I certainly wouldn't expect this behavior.
It doesn't help that Freestyle's Event Monitor doesn't monitor which MIDI channel the incoming messages are coming from.
It doesn't help that Freestyle's Event Monitor doesn't monitor which MIDI channel the incoming messages are coming from.
