Pitch bend

[Tim Walters]

At 3:26 PM 11/23/98, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>>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.

Also, when using pitch bend for purposes of microtonality, it's typical to
send a static bend value for each note rather than varying it continuously,
so zipper noise is not a factor, and the extra byte of precision is quite
useful.


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