StaleYolk wrote:alright anyone who actually has some helpful advice instead of sarcastic remarks please feel free to comment. Those kind of posts do not make you or anybody for that matter look smart at all.
Agreed.
Mono/Poly switching won't help you, since there's no way to bend only certain notes in a single program, so if you were to switch into poly mode, you'd be forced to bend both notes. Your idea of using multiple sounds in a combi seems to be a good starting point, though I'm not convinced this will be possible exactly the way you want it.
What I'd do is this: start with a mono program (the mono/poly settings are somewhere under the Osc tab in the program, if I recall correctly). In your combi, use various copies of this for soloing (disable the pitch bend for those timbres in the combi) and more copies for bent notes. Each bent note will use one copy, restricted by keyzone to exactly that note, and the rest of the keyboard will be segmented into versions of the program, with no overlap. So if you want to bend Bb5 up to C6 and G5 up to A5, your zones would look like this:
C-1 to F#5 (no bend)
G5 (bend)
G#5 to B5 (no bend)
Bb5 (bend)
C6-G9 (no bend)
Again, in all cases, disable the bend in the combi, not the program. Also, I'm assuming you'll always bend a constant interval in each direction, though the two can be different if you like (i.e. +2 up, -3 down). If you need different intervals for different notes, you can change that in combi mode as well, though in combi mode you can't set different up and down distances (you can just set +2, which will be both up and down).
This should work pretty well because if you ignore the bend and play across the keyboard, every note is mapped to a version of the same program. The one place you may lose some realism is in how LFOs and effects work; while you'll obviously want the same settings for each instance of your program, if the LFO restarts as you cross keyzones, the effect may be weird. And also, because you're using copies of the same program, you can, in theory, have poly behaviour by playing notes across keyzones at the same time, so it'll still be up to you to make sure you're soloing on one note at a time.
And of course, you're limited by the number of timbres you have. You can fit at most 3 bent notes and 4 non-bent portions into combi mode, or if you move to sequencer mode, 7 bent notes and 8 non-bent portions. Depending on how much bending you want to use, that may not be enough.
Basically, my opinion is that this can be done, with some significant tradeoffs, but you might be best off not using this technique in your solos and instead looking for other techniques that are better suited to or unique to keyboard solos.
