How to detune many racked simplers ?

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chapelier fou
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How to detune many racked simplers ?

Post by chapelier fou » Fri Nov 04, 2016 11:35 am

Here is the problem :

i have a rack with many simplers in many chains. I select one of them at a time with the chain selector. They all have different detunes settings, so they are all in the same tune.
Now i want a global 'detune' knob. Seems impossible to me, because you can map detune greater than +50 or less than -50.

Any idea ?
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Re: How to detune many racked simplers ?

Post by zeropoint » Tue Nov 08, 2016 1:09 am

maybe a pitch shifter ? 2 octave up and down. reasonably cpu intensive if in stereo at high fft. but works well....

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... pitchshift
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Re: How to detune many racked simplers ?

Post by chapelier fou » Wed Nov 09, 2016 9:12 am

Thanks, but this is a bit too much, too cpu intensive, and changing the sound too much as well.
I 'd wish for a more elegant solution.
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Re: How to detune many racked simplers ?

Post by wehkah » Wed Nov 09, 2016 1:16 pm

You can put each Simpler in a seperate instrument rack and map detune to one macro. Map all these rack macros to one macro in the main instrument rack, now you can setup a range for each detune control. This is not the best solution, the best will be a detune device in M4L.

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Re: How to detune many racked simplers ?

Post by chapelier fou » Wed Nov 09, 2016 1:37 pm

Thanks wehkah.
But as i stated, the detune cannot go beyond the +/- 50 ct limits. That's precisely the problem. Your example doesn't put the two simplers in the same tune, by the way.
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