source file: mills3.txt Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:43:50 +0200 Subject: Re: Software setup From: gbreed@cix.compulink.co.uk (Graham Breed) Gary Morrison wrote: > You might be well-served to see how your "product plans" compare with > Marion McCoskey's "FasTrack" JI MIDI sequencer, or possibly even Justonic's > "Pitch Palette" software. I personally don't know much about the features > of either. Can someone please give more information on these? There have been some problems raised with pitch bend tuning: > Assuming that that's what you're asking about, there has been a bit of > discussion about how to use pitch bend for microtonality. The tricky part > clearly is how to synchronize it with note-ons under very legato playing. > Since the either the pitch-bend message must precede the note-on or the > reverse, you're going to have a "blurp" in pitch either at the attack of > the current note or at the release of the previous note. MIDI transmits 3125 instructions per second. A pitch bend is 3 instructions. To send 16 of these takes 3*16/3125*1000=15.36 ms, or twice as much if you include the note-ons as well. Is this really a problem? > i don't like using pitch bend...the pitch bend affects all notes on that > channel, meaning that you can really only do monophonic stuff. yuck. That depends on your software, of course. With GM, you're limited to 15 melodic notes per MIDI stream. It's quite possible to go beyond this, but I've never wanted to. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: gbreed@cix.compulink.co.uk Subject: Re: missing fundamental PostedDate: 20-09-97 16:45:41 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 20-09-97 16:45:31-20-09-97 16:45:32,20-09-97 16:44:42-20-09-97 16:44:42 DeliveredDate: 20-09-97 16:44:42 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C1256518.00510EA9; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:45:21 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01898; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:45:41 +0200 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:45:41 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01896 Received: (qmail 29887 invoked from network); 20 Sep 1997 14:44:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Sep 1997 14:44:14 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu