# Pitch Bend four octaves

**URL:** <https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/pitch-bend-four-octaves/2314>\
**Category:** Super 6\
**Created:** [12 January 2024 22:45 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/pitch-bend-four-octaves/2314 "2024-01-12T22:45:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![darrenji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@darrenji](https://forum.udo-audio.com/u/darrenji)\
**Post date:** [12 January 2024 22:45 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/pitch-bend-four-octaves/2314/1 "2024-01-12T22:45:42Z")

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My S6 desktop is doing a fun thing where in MPE mode pitchbend is 1 octave on MIDI channel one, but is 4 octaves on all the other channels. The manual says S6 can only do one octave so that’s peculiar. I reproduced this using three different controllers. Anyone else experienced this?

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**Author:** ![SteveElbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SteveElbows](https://forum.udo-audio.com/u/SteveElbows)\
**Post date:** [13 January 2024 02:44 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/pitch-bend-four-octaves/2314/2 "2024-01-13T02:44:45Z")

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I would describe that as totally normal for MPE because MPE expressive per-note pitch bend is often assumed to be 48 semitone range, matching the defaults that a lot of MPE controllers use.

Its also normal for that not to be the case for channel 1 in MPE mode, because unlike all the other channels, channel 1 for MPE is the global channel where messages should affect all notes. And so this is the channel where a normal pitch bend wheel, mod when etc would be expected to send their data to if the MPE controller has those controls.