Seamless Change Between Patches w/sustain pedal
Hello, everyone! I am a long time Reaper user both in the home studio and for live work. However there has been something I have been trying to figure out for many hours now and can't quite seem to do it.
What I am trying to achieve is something like this...
Have an acoustic piano vst on channel 1
Have an an electric piano vst on channel 2
Send midi only to channel 1 and not to channel 2
Play acoustic piano on channel 1 while holding the sustain pedal
Stop sending midi to channel 1 and send midi to channel 2 instead while acoustic piano note remained sustained
Continue playing now with electric piano on channel 2 while acoustic piano notes from channel 1 slowly fade away.
I don't know how any better way to describe what I am trying to do. When I played with my old Yamaha P-95 keyboard's built in sounds I was able to seamlessly switch from one sound to the other. I think Roland keyboards call this feature "patch-remain".
I was able to achieve my desired results using Cantabile, but I don't want to purchase a new piece of software for one feature.
The problem I am having with Reaper right now is that whenever I switch which channel I'm sending midi to, the previous channel holds the sustain pedal indefinitely even if I let go of the sustain pedal on the new sound.
In Cantabile the sustain pedal is still held when switching sounds, but as soon as I let go of the sustain pedal on the new sound, the old sound immediately goes away.
I know I could just use the hardware faders on my midi controller and just send midi to both channels and raise the volumes up or down for each channel, but then I am using up more resources for sounds I may not actually be currently hearing (if that makes sense)
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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