BP Macros for an envelope breakpoint: Velocity and Aftertouch seem not to work

As the title says: Setting a BP Amp or Time macro to Velocity or Aftertouch (and an appropriate scale and breakpoint position) does not have any effect to the envelope. All "real" MIDI control changes do.

I did an experiment for clarification and created a patch with Absynth 5 including a pitch envelope where I have the "sustain" breakpoint (set to a medium level) controlled by an Amp Macro: Velocity/Amp Scale: 100, and it works. I then saved the patch and imported it to Absynth 6. With this imported patch, the velocity control of the breakpoint also works! In the "Assign" page I see an entry for Velocity, named "Env BP Amp: Oscil A Main Pitch", but looking at the Envelope page, I find the Amp Macro field for the breakpoint empty (but the Amp Scale displays correctly). When I open the "Amp Macro" pop-up-menu, velocity is checked, but when I re-select it, it stops working (but "Velocity" is displayed again in the Amp Macro field), and the entry in the Assign page/Velocity disappears.

So it seems data from MIDI sources not being MIDI CC are not assigned correctly somewhere, or selecting them as a BP Macro doesn't create the right connection internally.

BTW (off topic) "Note Value/Pitch" (also not a MIDI CC) as an additional modulation source would be nice…

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Jeremy_NI

@Der Pegler I forwarded your comments to the Absynth team, will try to get more info. Thnaks for the report.

grover723

This still seems to be not fixed. I am trying to do the simplest of things, really. Make amp envelope attack time faster with higher velocity, so that an oscillator fades in slowly when velocity is low and has a fast attack when I play a key harder. The fact that I fail to achieve this most basic thing is really a bummer.

If I set the breakpoint’s Time Macro source to for example Modwheel, the modwheel successfully changes the attack time and switching over to the assign page I can see that assignment to Env BP Time… . This is not the case when the source is set to velocity. It doesn’t work and doesn’t show up on the assign page.

This needs to be fixed.

Jeremy_NI

@grover723 Checking with the team where it's at.

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