velocity switching microtonal MIDI

Following up on my post about the Microtonal Toolkit program by Jose
Evangelista & Pierre Emanuel-Levesque.

From the docs :
" It is based on the velocity sensitivity of modern electronic keyboards.
The idea is to change the pitch of a key by the way you hit it: if played
soft, you get pitch 1; if played hard, you get pitch 2."

I said :
"It's an outstanding way to use tunings with more than 12 tones on 12-tone
MIDI instruments like keyboards & MIDI guitars. With Max it should be easy
enough to roll your own version of this to use your synth's tuning tables,
rather than pitch bends."

I gave it some more thought, and it dawned on me (talk about being slow)
that in *some* cases you don't need Max or anything else other than your
controller & synth.

But only IF your synth has tuning tables & velocity switching/crossfading.
AND those tuning tables can be programmed individually for each sound
patch/program. All you have to do is set it up so you switch programs, and
thereby, tunings, according to the velocity your controller is sending out.

I don't know if there are many synths out there that have this.
They mostly seem to store the tuning table (in some cases lke Ensoniq only 1
table) at the global level, or channel level (like Roland GS & Yamaha XG),
and not able to store different tunings as part of the patch/program.

Anyone here know if Roland's JV series synths store the tuning tables at the
patch level ?

Otherwise you'd need at least 2 synths & an external hardware (like Opcode's
Studio 5LX @US$779) /software (like Max) MIDI processor to do the switching.
But then the cost builds up to the might-as-well-get-a-Kyma level.

Kurzweils are a candidate, but only ET ? Loffink explained it to me once,
but I lost all the valuable exchanges I've had with many of you when my
drive went the way of the dodo. Speaking of synths, I think the Roland PMA-5
PDA-like device may be the world's smallest microtonal synth. Amazing.

Salut,
- Drew

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