Xpand2 Sustain Pedal Bug?

[weezerboy]

First off, I hope that maybe I'm just doing something wrong.

In an effort to conserve system resources, I decided to experiment with using Xpands multitimberal abilities. Instead of using 4 separate instances of Xpand2 for 4 separate sounds, I wanted to use one.

I put Xpand2 on a stereo aux track. I then created 4 MIDI tracks. One for drums, one bass, one piano, and one trumpet. I just wanted to use separate sounds so I could clearly tell what was playing and what wasn't.

I routed each MIDI track output to a different MIDI input on Xpand2. For example the output on the MIDI drum track was Xpand2 1 Channel-1, the bass was Xpand2 1 Channel-2, you get the idea.

What I found was that the sustain pedal data that I used on the piano MIDI track was also affecting the other tracks. When the piano track was sustaining, the trumpet and bass were sustaining as well. When I muted the piano track, the sustain data no longer effects the other tracks.

I tried to see if other data was doing the same time and pitch bend data does not behave this way.

Like I said, maybe this is by design? Or maybe there's a setting I don't know about, but its kind of disappointing.

I tried loading a the "Easy Ballad" patch from under multitimbral group in the preset menu thinking maybe these patch were setup for multitimral use. It had the same effect.

Any ideas?

[weezerboy]

Nothing? Has anybody else seen this? Or am I missing something?