Pitch Bend Wish

pmarafio · Post by **pmarafio** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:27 am

I love the Voyager...I started with the RME and now just purchased a brand new Performer - what a killer sound for leads!!!

I have one request for the Moog OS programmers - provide the capability to have independent pitch bend up and down values. My preference is to have a whole step pitch bend up and an octave pitch bend down. Most synths allow you to set this up but unfoirtunately the Voyager can't do that. It would make this incredible synth even better for leads.

Hopefully you're listening...

till · Post by **till** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:08 pm

I own more then 20 different synths from old monophonic analogs to modern DSP ones. And none of them over a differend pitch bend up and down range. Did I bought the wrong synths

pmarafio · Post by **pmarafio** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:53 pm

till wrote:I own more then 20 different synths from old monophonic analogs to modern DSP ones. And none of them over a differend pitch bend up and down range. Did I bought the wrong synths

I'm sure you have purchased great synths!

My Korg Triton, Yamaha Motif, Yamaha S90, Access Virus TI, and Kurzweil K2500 all have the ability to set different pitch up and down values. My Nord Lead 3 and the Moog are the only that do not.

For an example of using an octave down and whole step up, you can check out the following recent performance I did using Jordan Rudess's Triton. He was the one who actually gave me the idea to use those pitch bend settings:

http://www.marafiote.com/mp3/hhf-keyfest.mp3

FrankB · Post by **FrankB** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:59 pm

... the JP-8000 has this ability too...

GregAE · Post by **GregAE** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:21 pm

Pmarafio -

Great suggestion! I've wished for this as well.

I would include the Alesis Ion to the list of synths having separate programmable pitch up and down ranges. It's a great performance feature - it should be available on every synth.

What do you think, Rudi? Is it possible to add?

- Greg

BTW - Very nice work in 'HHF-Keyfest'! Where was the song recorded?

pmarafio · Post by **pmarafio** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:48 pm

GregAE wrote:Pmarafio -

BTW - Very nice work in 'HHF-Keyfest'! Where was the song recorded?

Thanks Greg. Jordan Rudess sponsored a "Keyfest" last year in New York. Keyboard players submitted auditions and Jordan selected some of us to perform. He then commented on our playing and offered suggestions.

His main suggestion to me was to work on using the pitch wheel for vibrato rather than the traditional approach of using a mod wheel. The ability to have the octave down and whoie tone up makes that approach work far more effectively since you can get different vibrato effects by bouncing the wheel down as opposed to up.

Hopefully the Moog programmers will add this to a future update.

RL · Post by RL » Sun Feb 19, 2006 4:51 am

I have one request for the Moog OS programmers - provide the capability to have independent pitch bend up and down values. My preference is to have a whole step pitch bend up and an octave pitch bend down. Most synths allow you to set this up but unfoirtunately the Voyager can't do that. It would make this incredible synth even better for leads.

I like that idea. But the change would bring us another reset function in the factory setup menu. Let's see...

martin · Post by **martin** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 3:24 pm

that's a wonderul idea. it would add a lot of expression possibilities. sweet!

peak · Post by **peak** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:16 pm

great idea

you have my vote