How Do I Change the Pitch Bend Range in Ashlight?

toastrz

Hey all!

I'm currently stumped regarding this.

In Ashlight, the pitchbend range by default is a whole octave and I've like to change this to 1-2 semitones for greater control/playability.

I've gone into Kontakt's backend and that hasn't proven to be fruitful either. Using the Mod Source panel, I can change the range to 13+ semitones, and crudely change it to 1-2 by inverting the pitchbend mod source but that latter solution isn't smooth and sounds pretty janky. Any other alteration I make in the backend doesn't alter the pitchbend at all from my experimentation.

I'm using the latest version of Pro Tools, so MPE isn't an option, though, in testing with other DAWs it seems that enabling MPE doesn't allow pitchbend to be altered using the X/Y pad or any other source either.

It's a bit of a silly request since you can just fine comb the pitchbend using the MIDI editor, but being able to do it expressively live like any other instrument would be super useful and really time-saving.

Thanks!

stephen24

If there's an existing modulation of pitchbend in the Source Module in the (accessible) edit screen you can just automate the intensity slider. If not it's handled in a script, which is best not touched..

This multiscript will reduce the range of pb messages reaching Kontakt. and will affect all instruments in that instance.

on init

declare $PB

end on

on midi_in

if ($MIDI_COMMAND = $MIDI_COMMAND_PITCH_BEND)

$PB := ($MIDI_BYTE_1 + ($MIDI_BYTE_2 * 128)) - 8192

$PB := $PB / 2

set_event_par($EVENT_ID,$EVENT_PAR_MIDI_BYTE_1,($PB +8192) mod 128)

set_event_par($EVENT_ID,$EVENT_PAR_MIDI_BYTE_2, ($PB +8192) / 128)

end if

end on

KSP button (top R, Rack view) > Edit > paste code > click Apply.

Manipulation of the value is in line 8 - in this example, halved. You might want to divide by 6.

Let me know if I've got the arithmetic right.

Once again this ill-smelling website has added spaces between lines on uploading. It shouldn't affect the script, but now manipulation is on line 7