Pitch bend

[Duane R Balvage]

Hello all...
>  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.

   Hmmm... that must be how most boards handle it... All my "pro"

   gear doesn't suffer from the dreaded "zipper noise".

> yea, and if midi is so slugish, why the Industry ever adopt it  for playing
> and recording real time  data  on every thing from computers to  pedals?
> they should have stuck to contyrol voltage 

  Well, there was good reason. MIDI came out back when 64k was a LOT of
memory in a computer, and 300(!) baud modems were the norm. Oh, yeah,
and people actually played keyboards, not knobs. %^P
It was a limitation of the hardware that was commonly available at the
time. Nobody expected people to want to send hundreds of CC messages
and SysEx messages at the same time as note data back then...the most 
stuff that was sent was note on/off, Velocity, aftertouch, and bender/
mod wheel. (i.e., they PLAYED the keyboards. <heh heh>). Feel fortunate
that we even have THIS standard... the original one proposed by Dave
Smith of SCI only had note on/off, bend/mod and program select...
that was it! (the "digital" interface on the rev. 3.3 Prophet 5 comes to
mind....

MIDI isn't perfect, but it's pretty good... and if you believe control
voltage is better, by all means use it! I'll keep my AX-80,my Prophet
2000, and my MMT-8. Whatever works for you....

						Duane ;^P


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