Ok. So pinning consists of two elements:
1. Hitting the cueball with the edge of the tip
2. Accellerating at impact.
Which leads to a "higher pitched sound" and more ball action.
I have only one cue that truely "pings" which is a custom with an old growth shaft. The one thing I've found about the sound of the cue is that it tends to ping more with a loose grip and a bad stroke. If I truely accellerate at the right time it tends to make less noise, rather than more. The sweetest sound and feeling comes when you hit the absolute center of the cueball with the center of the tip at the correct point in the stroke.
It is true that the cue impact makes a different sound when you hit the ball further from the center, especially approaching the miscue limit, but you can't get that sound hitting close to the center, other than with an angled cue (which would mean that you are hitting the same "percentage" of the cue ball as the level, off center version). It would also mean you are shooting a massè or pique, or some upward version of those (the latter is rareley possible at all because of the rails).
Jump to 6:15 for the sound difference in draw shots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFEw-BXgKrQ