![]() What polyphonic expression does is to put additional parameters underneath your fingertips – multiple fingertips, at once, individually, which is how almost every acoustic instrument in the world works. It’s something that’s easier to feel than explain – so enter these free presets to get you started. Or maybe we use the mod wheel, but then that impacts all the notes we’re playing at once, which is weird unless you’re an organist or something. Or we mouse around and edit after the fact. If you think of the way we’ve tended to use sophisticated soft synths in the past, often we map all those extra timbre and modulation parameters to, well, knobs. Here’s a stupidly simple way to look at it (or a simple, stupid way, maybe). ![]() That’s a fair question – and actually at some point it’d be great to get some round-up of virtuoso players using MPE – but it may also misunderstand what MPE does. ![]() Somehow, each time I do this, people ask – so quif MPE is so great, where are the amazing performances? Where can I hear better results? Ableton Live I think you’ve heard of before. Quanta is a fantastic granular tool Madrona Labs makes deep synths. There’s a lot in there – even hardware, the wonderful Hydrasynth. So where to get started? Our friends at Sensel just made a handy free preset pack. MIDI Polyphonic Expression, once considered exotic, is now in favorite tools like Ableton Live 11, Xfer Serum, and Arturia Pigments.
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