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Even though its a bass synth, the new Moog Mariana soft synth supports MPE

SteveElbows wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:00 pm Even though its a bass synth, the new Moog Mariana soft synth supports MPE

It also has a duophonic mode.

Yes and it sounds great. I wasnt complaining about it, I was hoping it would have MPE since Geert Bevin is so involved with their software, and I wasnt disappointed.

Frankly even if a synth was monophonic I'd still rather it had MPE these days, even though the polyphonic expressivity that MPE enables is unnecessary in this context. Since that means it will take account of how large a pitch bend range MPE controllers tend to default to, make MPE Y/Slide (cc74) stuff show up as a mod source, etc.

Arturia Augmented Woodwinds supports MPE. Mini V 4 also supports MPE but they look to have forgotten to explicitly say so on the product page at this time.

SteveElbows wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:08 pm Arturia Augmented Woodwinds supports MPE. Mini V 4 also supports MPE but they look to have forgotten to explicitly say so on the product page at this time.

Are Timbre and Press already mapped in the the presets?

Ou_Tis wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:10 pm

SteveElbows wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:08 pm Arturia Augmented Woodwinds supports MPE. Mini V 4 also supports MPE but they look to have forgotten to explicitly say so on the product page at this time.

Are Timbre and Press already mapped in the the presets?

No the situation remains the same as with other Arturia plugins that already supported MPE for quite a long time. Pitch bend works properly without needing to change individual presets, presets that make use of aftertouch will work with MPE pressure (though not necessarily in the way MPE users would want) and MPE Y is unmapped in factory presets.

It's not a synth, but the upcoming Reliq Control Surface/Sequencer supports MPE.

https://www.reliq-instruments.com

That sounds like fun, especially for those with a modular…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0PnBjhaTU
And it might blow Push 3 out of the Water…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzLAagnBqOA

Tj Shredder wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 2:41 pm That sounds like fun, especially for those with a modular…

All those audio inputs and outputs are welcome for my hardware. Plus the all analog, click less routing is great for mixing hardware synths and FX in realtime.

The Sequencer is freakin impressive.

And the developers are into Bitwig so there is Bitwig integration.

Arturia Pigments 5 Update Available
https://www.kvraudio.com/news/arturia-r ... ts-5-59875

sec6 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:58 pm Arturia Pigments 5 Update Available
https://www.kvraudio.com/news/arturia-r ... ts-5-59875

One of the new preset packs they are selling for Pigments 5 is marketed as being all about MPE, and contains 150 presets.

Allthough I do like Pigments in general, I find it a bit tedious to use with LinnStrument + MPE. By default they assign Timbre/Y to Macro 1. For many patches, Macro 1 introduces way to much change in sound to be playable with the very little y-axis control you have with the LinnStrument.

It's a bit better if you set Timbre/Y to relative on.

In general, I prefer to take existing patches and consciously introduce MPE modulations that fit my playing style.

There is a big discount available on the bundle of new patches for Pigments 5. And it includes the Expressive Explorations sound bank which includes 150 MPE oriented patches.

https://www.arturia.com/sound-banks/explorationsbundle
The new sound banks are normally $30 each. This is all three for $20.

The new UVI Glass Orchestra has MPE support. There is a lack of detail about what the MPE support is like, including in the manual. Its not very cheap, so I might sign up for UVI Sonic Pass for a month to evaluate it.

The Intellijel Cascadia has MPE support now. It's a mono or duophonic synth but this makes it possible to use note retrigger and legato playing with full MPE control on the active note