Originally Posted By: Mark Hayes
Originally Posted By: Simon - PG Music
Originally Posted By: Mark Hayes
Originally Posted By: Gordon Scott
OK ... I've just done that again, but used PianoTeq instead of VSTSynthFont64 and with PianoTeq I have the sostenuto operating as it should.

I’m seeing suggestions that MIDI sostenuto is inconsistently implemented, sometimes being treated the same as sustain, sometimes being ignored.

That is correct, as sustain and sostenuto are two very different things. Some plugins have it implemented and some most don't.

This thread got me a-googlin first about MIDI then about the history of pianos and piano pedals. Not surprisingly, it took a while for piano makers to standardize pedal function, and while things were still in development, you might have a piano with 8 pedals (why not? why stop at 7?) including one to hold little strips of metal against the strings. Many a musical heart must have broken when its favorite weird piano pedal was taken away by the march of history.

Thankfully there are many aspiring musical nerds engineers who are tackling the problem of not having enough weird pedals on a piano.



This is one I want to do if I get the time and/or a piano to butcher laugh

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