Reference Manual

401 Live Instrument Reference
Electric will play in equal temperament, which means that two notes are an octave apart when
the upper note’s fundamental pitch is exactly twice the lower note’s. But because the actual reso-
nance behavior of a vibrating tine or string differs from the theoretical model, equal tempera-
ment tends to sound “wrong“ on pianos. Stretch tuning attempts to correct this by sharpening the
pitch of upper notes while flattening the pitch of lower ones. The result is a more brilliant sound.
Negative values simulate “negative“ stretch tuning; upper notes become flatter while lower notes
become sharper.
P Bend sets the range in semitones of pitch bend modulation.
24.4 External Instrument
(Note: the External Instrument device is not available in the Intro and Lite Editions.)
The External Instrument.
The External Instrument device is not an instrument itself, but rather a routing utility that allows
you to easily integrate external (hardware) synthesizers, ReWire devices and multitimbral plug-
ins into your projects. It sends MIDI out and returns audio.
The two MIDI To choosers select the output to which the device will send MIDI data. The top
chooser selects either a physical MIDI port (page 174), a ReWire slave destination (page
176) or a multitimbral plug-in. If you select a MIDI port (for use with an external synthesizer),
the second chooser’s options will be MIDI channel numbers. If you’ve chosen a ReWire slave
such as Reason as your routing target, the choices will be the specific devices available in the
slave project: