Pitch bend

[Jeremy Brookes]

>a midi pitch bend message consists of 2 bytes, a MSB and a LSB. What's
>the range in semitones of the MSB and LSB(how much semitones is a note
>pitched up as the LSB or the MSB is 128). I would like to know this
>because I want to build a midi to cv converter which can handle the midi
>pitch bend messages.


And further info that some Yamaha synths (maybe just the older ones) only
use the MSB, i.e. 7-bit resolution for pitch bend, the LSB is always zero.
Can't say I notice any audible zipper-type effects though...