When pressing sustain pedal during recording the played notes sound different

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Hi there,

I am facing a very strange situation. I have new yamaha silent piano, I wanna use with Cubase. Nothing very special, had it already in the past. But this time, something strange happens:

When I am playing, as soon as I use the sustain pedal, the sound of some notes change. When I am playing without the sustain pedal, everything works fine. The sustain pedal even works correctly, however during the play some sounds change. And even after recording, the effect remains. I have to completely reassign the instrument to reset this effect. But I do not have an idea what the pedal is changing at all. Because some notes are not audible at all, others are very quiet… all those I have not used sound normal.

I really don’t get it :smiley: Do you have any idea, what is happening there?

Regards,

Mike

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Cubase 11 Elements, EastWest Sounds Piano

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One potential avenue to investigate:

Is your VST instrument possibly configured to react to Midi CC (Control Change) 64 type of messages for other parameters in addition to sustain?

This kind of thing can occur, if at one point in time you (maybe inadvertently) activated some sort of a midi learn function in the VST Instrument and during that time pressed the sustain pedal.

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Hi,

thank you very much. It took me the entire afternoon to find the solution :smiley: And no… it was not the sustain pedal. It was the aftertouch event / poly pressure which changed the modulation of the tones.

I had to filter Poly Pressure in Cubase, now everything works fine :slight_smile:

Thank you!

Mike

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