Cubase 13 Pro + Kontakt / Session Strings 2 - pitch bend affects the next note

Question

Hello,

I am using Cubase 13 Pro with Kontakt 7 and Session Strings 2.

I am trying to create a short pitch drop / pitch slide on one note in the Pitchbend lane in the Key Editor.

The problem is that even if I return the pitch bend to 0 exactly between two notes, the next note is still slightly affected at the beginning.

I already tried:

* returning the pitch bend to 0 slightly before the next note
* shortening the previous note
* reducing release
* testing it in Kontakt standalone as well

So my questions are:

* Is this simply because normal Pitch Bend in Cubase is channel-wide?
* Is there a proper way to do this with Kontakt instruments when notes are very close to each other?
* Can Note Expression help here with Kontakt / Session Strings 2, or does this only work with instruments that support VST Note Expression directly?
* What is the best workflow for short pitch drops on a single note without affecting the following note?

My goal is a clean disco-style string pitch drop on one note only, without the next note being bent.

Thanks a lot.

MBass · Answer

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/259446#Comment_259446

Dear Uwe, thanks for your suggestion. It is an interesting idea, but I am programming it in the editor rather than playing it live, so that approach does not really suit my workflow.

In the end, I solved it by creating a second instance of the instrument and splitting the part into two layers: one for the notes with pitch drops/slides, and one for the straight notes without pitch bend. That gave the bent notes enough time to settle, so they no longer affected the following straight notes.

Uwe303 · Answer

Hello,

have you tried the portamento expression as second one and as master expression maybe legato (or what you want), play your normal notes with velocity so low that the master expression is used and for the slide you use a higher velocity so the portamento expression is used and you can acheive what you want. Of course mode to velocity switch, if you use the rhythm animator open another instance for the portamento could be an option.