Description

Portamentos offers two useful tools: 1) "in-key" pitchbend scaling and 2) portamento slide duration from MIDI note velocity.

Working with pitch bend can be a pain... When using the pitch wheel, it's easy to overshoot or undershoot the target note as the pitch wheel only controls a static semitone range. It's also challenging performing and editing portamento lines as synthesizers also have a static bend range and it can be difficult to figure out how a 14bit MIDI value corresponds to musical pitch.

This Max For Live devices solves these issues, making performing and programming portamento slides quick and intuitive.

There are two available modes:

PITCH WHEEL TO ADJACENT NOTE:.

* intercepts pitch-bend information and scales it to the key/scale you're playing in

* moving pitch-bend up or down only slides to the adjacent note in the key/scale - no more, no less.

* 20 available scale "mappings", including most commonly used scales

AUTO PORTAMENTO:.

* when playing overlapping notes, uses MIDI note velocity to determine duration of slide to the next note

* editable velocity > duration graph for adjusting portamento response

Developed with Live 9 / Max 6, but also tested working with latest versions of Live 10 / Max 8.

Demo video here - https://youtu.be/lqn1nG_JbEU