MTS-ESP key displacement shenanigans

[Andreya-Autumn]

The "Closest key" strategy is the general best choice for tuned sounds. But can cause some unexpected and weird behaviors in situations like "a single zone plays a tambourine sample". Think about it.

[baconpaul]

yeah for that you want the 'most original key biggest tune' as opposed to 'closest key smallest tune' strategy

or just use a bigger zone :)

[Andreya-Autumn]

I think the answer for drums is clearly "ignore MTS-ESP". And I reckon this would have to be per-part, for the probably not entirely hypothetical microtonal&multitimbral user base.

For tonal sounds, I have to do some more testing. In my test case where MTS-ESP retunes individual keys by more than a semitone, I found that the current strategy can make a key which has something mapped to it be entirely silent.

I see why that's happening. One zone doesn't have knowledge about all the other zones. So we play a different key and hope that that key has a zone on it (which is a reasonable replacement for the one played). When it doesn't you just get silence. I'm not sure it's the best we can do, but it sure is tricky.

[baconpaul]

Right so is it zone(inbound key) or zone(closest frequency)? we will just need both modes.

[Andreya-Autumn]

Yeah both modes definitely.

But maybe also in the closest frequency case, we could try to guard against the "there's no zone there" somehow. Maybe the zone which is highest/lowest in a group could be allowed to retune further so you don't just get silence when you play a low or high note.

Then again, maybe the doctor simply prescribes "fix your zones". Thinking out loud here kinda.

Gonna do some testing some time and leaving this open for now.

[baconpaul]

yeah my thought exactly was "you know you can edit zone boundaries in the UIright?" :)