each midi note with different pan?

I have a complex piano track that I'd like each note to have it's own pan-position. I don't want to use an audio effect that simply moves the pan around for the entire track because with an effect like that, the panning of each midi note is likely to change when the panning moves. That is, lets say I have 2 notes in a row, A and B, but each one is played fast enough so that the previous note is still sounding. When B comes in, I want it to be at a different pan location than A, but I want A to finish playing where it is. Unfortunately, I don't know of any midi synths (that play a good piano sound) that allow each midi note to have it's own pan position. I know I could use the CAL split notes function to put each note on it's own track, and then I could set each track to it's own channel and it's on pan position, but I'll have more than 16 notes, so therefore I'll need more than one instance of the synth in order to not overlap channels. Another problem I have with this method is the CAL function doens't always work, sometimes it gives me an error saying it cant't do something or other but it never says why.

Does anyone know of any easier way of doing this? Again, what I want is for each note to have it's own pan position independant of all the other notes. Thanks.

Mick

Unfortunately, I don't know of any midi synths (that play a good piano sound) that allow each midi note to have it's own pan position.

This is the rub, isn't it?
It really doesn't matter whether or not you can assign each note a different pan position - what matters is having a synth that will respond to the pan control for individual notes. You may have to dissect your synth collection to find one that can even give you some minute panning. A sampler (like Joe says) may let you play with the pan of the sample, or, you could take the .wavs of a piano sample set and pan those note by note. Whew.

Brian

There is a way but you wont like it. Use the List editor and insert a pan for each note. This is not going to be a fun thing to do. But it should work at least for a synth that will accept CC 10 for pan.
I am unsure if you can pan one note that is playing and then pan anther note without effecting the first one. But at the least you should be able to get most of the effect you want in the overall sound. Because the first note will have sounded its loudest when first panned. That is the theory at any rate.

You may be able to do the same in the PRV control pane by drawing cc 10 per note to taste as needed.

Best
John