Polyend Synth Polyphonic After Touch MIDI OUT

Hey,

So I’ve been using the Synth as a full on MIDI controller within Ableton 12 for other VST’s. It’s been great, really performative, mapping After Touch MIDI CC controls to filters and such.

I do have one hurdle, it seems like I’m only able to retrieve a global After Touch signal in Ableton, and not a Polyphonic one (for every note). I played around with input ports settings but no luck so far.

Did anyone have luck with this?

Cheers,
Maxime

Welcome to Backstage @maxime.quoilin! Great to have you here :slight_smile:

Good question! I personally haven’t tried this. I don’t use Ableton, but will check with a Midi Monitor in Cubase on my end later today. I also have the Hydrasynth that responds to Poly AT, so I’ll try with that as well.

Will report back later today :slight_smile:

So I can confirm that Poly AT is sent out through MIDI. Hopefully someone who is using Ableton Live can chime in.

Hey Dann,

So it seems like anytime I press multiple key, the AT (Press here) value changes to the AT value of the latest pressed key.

Wish I could help, but no Ableton here :frowning:
I just did a bit of reading and it appears that Ableton only support MPE and not true Poly AT. So it might be the case that Ableton is expecting MPE messages but is getting Poly AT message instead.

@maxime.quoilin checking in to see if you’ve been able to advance on this issue.

I’ll jump in here :slight_smile: Current design send both Channel Pressure (aka global After Touch) and Aftertouch (aka Polyphonic Aftertouch for every note) together, and there is no setting to exclude one of them. Probably Ableton assigns whichever it registers first. We’ll consider improving this in future updates to acomodate programs like Ableton which depend on MIDI learn functionality to set things up.