OVERRIDING MIDI pt.II

[Steve]

>Steve wrote:

>
>> and remap the two bytes to a pair of cc's ("coarse" and "fine"), then set
>> up your synth (if it allows for this) such that they both modulate the same
>> parameter, the "coarse" having 128 times greater modulation strength,
>
>I've never tried this, but I imagine you'll have a problem unless your
>synth is smart enough to update the pair atomically.  Say you send
>        msb:0x23, lsb:0x7d, lsb:0x7e, lsb:0x7f, --
>At this point you want to send (msb:0x24, lsb:0x00), but whichever you
>send first will cause a glitch as big as the low-order bit in msb, which
>is exactly what we wanted to avoid.

In theory, you're right.  In practice, though, the wanking-about of a
performer with a pitchbend wheel or other device does not move
incrementally.  If it did, using this arrangement, there would be an error
in control accuracy the size of a full lsb that lasted the length of time
between the 2 cc messages.  Still sounds better than 0-127 to my ears,
though, especially when you want to send several discrete messages (as per
a filter "sequence").




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