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Hi everybody,

the new Alchemy version 1.5 is released now. The most interesting feature for Eigenharp players is most certainly the polyphonic pitch bend support via host automation parameters (thought it would be realized via multi channel support - but it's parameters now).
In my first experiments I didn't get how to make this work yet with "out of the box" EigenD.
There are 127 "PolPB" parameters which I tried to map to roll. (If I enable "per key" 1 to 16 mapping entries are generated depending on the poly channel range I dialed in at the settings dialog). Just mapping the parameters 289 to 304 doesn't seem to do the trick.
Presumably the EigenD concept assumes one parameter per channel and these parameters define pitches per note?
Then presumably there is no way to get this to work with the config matrix atm? Is there a trick with Workbench/Belcanto with existing agents?
Otherwise this might require some coding.. :)

Perhaps there could be an agent that chooses the next "free" note whose pitch is closest to the one played on a certain midi channel (given by the note and pitch bend information on that channel) and "bends" this to the desired pitch. Then we could even tune two notes at the same pitch when the original pitch of the chosen parameter notes is taken into account and "neutralized". Question is how much you can bend each note and whether these initial "pitch jumps" would be audible...