Trautonium II

[Michael Maloney]

>From: "Curtin, Steven D (Steven)" <sdcurtin at lucent.com>
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>Subject: RE: Trautonium II
>Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:14:32 -0500 
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>> One question remains: how could we emulate the manual.  How could we do
>> this with MIDI? Is it possible that MIDI of 1999 can not give the same
>> performance then a 1935 Trautonium ?
>> 
>> I fear so.
>> 
>> 
>> m.c.
>> 
>IMHO the answer is probably no for emulating the manual with MIDI, since
>MIDI only gives you 128 discrete pitches and the manual is a
>continuous-pitch device.  You don't have to use MIDI of course.  A

I'm afraid I haven't followed this very closely, but what is the problem
with using the wheel channel (+/-8192 steps of resolution)? This runs
independent of the note-on/note-off stuff. You may want to use the note
channel as a gate/trigger, but ignore the actual value. Obviously this
would give the folks at the IMA a fit, but it already exists in the spec,
so you could use existing MIDI software for sequencing/recording.

The only caveat is that any other continuous controllers would have to be
scaled to fit in the 128 step resolution of the other available cc's.
Unless you really want to get dirty and use multiple MIDI channels...then
again, why not? 

Mike Maloney