Pitch bend

[Scott Gravenhorst]

>jocke at netcontrol.fi writes:
>
><< 
> 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.
>  >>

Some synths allow setting the Pitch Bend to a span of 48 semitones.  If
only 7 bits are used, each step is about 37 cents.  That would be far to
crude to be musically useful.

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