as a Keyboarder I am working with multiple Keyboards and it would be important / helpful for me to see within VST Live which sound on which of my Keyboards is placed. The current View in the “Zone screen” a mix of overlapping keyobard-splits is shown, which are not differentiated on which keyboard is is located.
Especially for cover songs with multiple sounds and key-splits it makes it not easy to get an overview. The Keyboard-Velocity is a helpful information but is less important for me compared to the keyboard-split and sound allocations.
As-Is: Below please find a screenshot of the As-Is-screen-design in the zone menu:
Furthermore it would be also helpful if it would be possible to configure the key-rang for each keyboard. In my screen you can see that the Keytar, Keyboard and Stagepiano have different numbers of keys. This would help also to reduce complexity and make reading easier and to prevent mistakes based on an easier navitation.
It would be great if you please could check if it would be possible to enhance the “zone screen” by a keyboard-split-oriented screen.
Thanks in advance for your feedback and
your great work on improvements of VST Live :-).
If we would continue thinking the request above it would be also great (maybe in the mid-term future) if VST live would be usable to create keyboard-pictures which I could be shown in the scores / notes of a song in VST live.
Below please find an example how I am currently vizalizing key-split-layouts per song in my notes / scores which helps to get a better orientation at the gig where to find which sound on the keyboard at which keys:
Theoretically such a layout could be automatically generated by VST live based on the configuration and could be copied / shared also within Dorico. But this is another use case which is not directly related to this topic. I just wanted to show an potential outlook.
We had it similar to that originally, but decided on the current one, which is not really that much different, albeit with a better velocity resolution.
Many thanks for your answer / feedback.
I am not sure if you had the time to read my ticket from the beginnen.
My feeling is that you only answered to the last aspect in the ticket.
But if you read my ticket from the beginning then your answer is not fitting.
Therefor I try to summarize again.
The current vizalization of keyboard splits works perfectly but only for musicians that have 1 keyboard / instrument.
I am playing 2 keyboards and because complex songs as a keyboard I need to cover multiple sounds or also a 2nd guitar which is not part of our band. In some cases I need to fast move in a Medley between 5 songs so that I have in VST Live 1 song with key-splits I use in reality for 3 songs on 2 keyboards.
Below please find an example for the songs “que sera + I will survive” where I have placed different key-splits in a long list (different layers in 1 song @ VST Live):
Unfortunately VST live is currently not able to help me to see what sound / key-split I have configured in VST live.
From my point of view many keyboarder work with more than 1 keyboard and it would be great if you could try to improve this topic in the future. Maybe not a top short term priority.
This would help make my life easier. I am using primarly VST sounds from Steinberg and using midi keyboards with VST live as the single sound engine. The keyboarder before me used 2 hardware keyboards and 1 keyboard expander. That means I have no other hardware which could help me to get a better overview.
I guess there are many bands which have more than 1 keyboard (like depeche mode) or single keyboarder which have more than 1 keyboard and would love to get a better transparency regarding key-splits.
Would be helpful, for a start, if the naming of the zones could be switched between MIDI-input and layer name? Or if both could be displayed at the same time, in two rows?
@SKO, I would say that only inconvenience is that you cannot filter zone view by keyboard (MIDI) or track. Let’s say there could be a selection box where you select keyboard 1 and see only pizzicato and string; then select keyboard 2 and see piano blaser and strings.
I’m not sure that the zone view should be changed cardinally. It does its job perfectly. Need only additional filter. Another filter, because existing filter (button SPLIT) can filter only two zones, so if you need to see three instruments/manage three zones (or two splits at the time), it’s not convenient.
