"MPE Control" Device makes notes sharp

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Acidik
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"MPE Control" Device makes notes sharp

Post by Acidik » Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:19 am

Hi! I added some MPE Strings from the Spitfire Audio pack into a project, but noticed that they were being played sharp. After some digging, I found that it was the "MPE Control" MIDI device which caused this problem. I did some more experimenting and found that it was this mode on the NotePB section that caused this issue (shown below)
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Switching to this mode fixed it (shown below):
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Changing the "Max" control also fixed it (shown below):
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It's worth noting that on the curve type with no breakpoints in the middle, the line doesn't stretch quite as far horizontally. This makes the Y value slightly above 0 when the X value was 0 (which aligns with the issue in the sound), however I find this strange as the visualisation on the device shouldn't actually alter it's function.
Either way, it's a pain to change all of these parameters whenever I want to use any of the Spitfire Audio MPE Instruments (as it's like this with all of them) - I'm asking for either a workaround or for the "bug" to be fixed. Thanks! :D

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Re: "MPE Control" Device makes notes sharp

Post by [jur] » Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:26 pm

Wow, awesome catch!
For some reason I wasn't able to reproduce at first. I was adding an MPE Control instance in front of the rack but I understood only later on that you were talking about the MPE Control instances that are inside the rack.

Please report this to Support, thx!
I'm forwarding on my end too.
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Re: "MPE Control" Device makes notes sharp

Post by [jur] » Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:34 pm

I'm not able to repro in L11, only in L12.
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Re: "MPE Control" Device makes notes sharp

Post by Acidik » Sun Mar 31, 2024 1:37 pm

[jur] wrote:
Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:34 pm
I'm not able to repro in L11, only in L12.
Yeah this only started happening after I switched to Live 12, so it's probably just the changes they made to the MPE Control device between versions which introduced this issue.

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