u-he plugins sustain pedal handling (Diva)(bug?)

[EvilDragon]

as a workaround I'm thinking about making a JS reaper midi plugin that translates playing with sustain pedal into correct note on and offs that include the sustain with no sustain pedal in the midi, which I think the u-he plugins would handle fine. I suspect that pressure to get on with the recording and just use something else for now will mean it doesn't happen for a while though.

That's actually a pretty good solution/workaround for the time being!

[AlfredR]

You might try the free pizmidi midisostenuto vst.
Sostenuto is also a lot more usefull for sustaining synth sounds.

[pdxindy]

One other thing regarding the sustain pedal...

I would like it if physically holding a note while also using the sustain pedal would prioritize that note so it would be get cutoff via note stealing

[EvilDragon]

Yes, that only makes sense.

[Tom Drinkwater]

I wrote a JS script that does the trick for piano playing. It can't do an elegant solution to multiple instances of the same note since it can't see the U-he voice allocation system, so it just restarts the note if it is repeated regardless of whether it is a sustain pedal or alternate controller situation.

i'll share it if anyone wants it, or for posterity when i get a chance to clean it up...

[hydrogxn]

+1 for sustain pedal handling... just tried to hook mine up today and was like this in't right! my jupiter and juno both have sustain/hold inputs.

[Chris-S]

Sustain in Zebra CM is also strange.
As soon as the sustain pedal is used, all note-offs are completely ignored.

[truelight]

2. Even allowing for the behavior in 1, there seems to be a bug where notes get cut short on pedal release.

Consider this sequence of events:

- play a D
- depress the sustain pedal
- release the D key (note sustains)
- play the same D again (another voice starts on D so there are now 2 Ds playing as described above)
- release the pedal, with the D key held down.

logically in the scenario in 1 the first D that is being held by the pedal should stop when the pedal is released and the D that is still held down should continue. However sometimes both Ds are cut off when the pedal is released, even though the D key is still depressed. I think this counts as a bug rather than just unwanted behaviour.

I've just discovered this same bug in Bazille! I thought it was a Pro Tools bug related to something else I deal with but it happens with U-He synths in any DAW (besides Zebra). It's definitely distracting playing parts with the sustain pedal and having notes choking half the time

It appears that the Bazille 1.0 manual mentions a old "poly2" mode that isn't in the plugin anymore, that prioritizes stealing voices in their release stage before others. Could reimplementing some version of this fix the problem?