Whats a multipoint controller?
Multipoint controllers, or MPCs, are little streams of special midi instructions which NWC can squirt into a channel (or, with tempo – the conductor’s track) to do special things like altering pitch, volume, stereo pan etc. This can be handy for special effects, as well as “humanising” performance with things like swing, portamento, hammer-on on a guitar, swell on sustained notes, etc. Note that some soundcards do not implement these features. For example, say you want to create a Swedish fiddle piece that’s in triple time, but the first quarter note of each measure is long, followed by two shorter ones (a typical Swedish fiddle trick!) You can do this by creating one MCP for the first bar (see below for an example) and then copying and pasting it into the start of each other bar. This method can be used to do swing for jazz pieces, too. To fill out the MCP dialog entries, you may do: • Start by doing Insert | Multi-point Controller (or press L) • Controller: Tempo. Well, that’s obviou
