Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
I wonder if this problem is widespread? How many people have a VSTi with serious range limits? Is it enough to warrant a Wishlist request to add range limits for each track in BIAB?

I think it may be. Part of my reason for asking, of course.

I'm primarily a jazz enthusiast and beginner, but an awful lot of my influences have come from Africa and Latin America, some from Asia, some through a European lens ... I like the Iberia/Moorish mixes, for example. So some of my choices for instruments come from those cultures, some of my scales are influenced by those cultures. I do note that at least some of those play an adjacent diatonic note when a the instrument does not have the chromatic note. I also see that some have a chromatic scale on the VSTi even though the instrument proper does not. Some of the VSTis also have articulations or musical phrases that play in response to out-of-range keys.

It would seem to me that a means to constrain the range of notes for an instrument and/or channel may be very useful. I'm a little less sure that constraining to a scale is necessarily so helpful ... I was prompted to ask the question whilst experimenting with a Bolon VSTi, which is an African accompaniment instrument with only three or four notes ... and that would surely appear a constraint too far. :-)

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