Pitch bend

Joachim Verghese jocke at netcontrol.fi
Mon Nov 23 18:05:39 CET 1998


Jeremy Brookes wrote:

> 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...

Quite frankly, I've never really understood why midi controllers
should have 14-bit resolution. With the poor-ish time-domain
resolution of midi, you'll have zipper noise anyway unless you
implement some sort of smoothing/interpolation in the receiving end.

-joachim





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