[sdiy] MIDI bass pedals update

[Scott Gravenhorst]

David Brown <davebr at earthlink.net> wrote:
>I've finished the cabinet and the first pass on code for the MIDI bass
>pedals.  I've uploaded some new photos and a user manual.
>
>http://home.earthlink.net/~djb-synths/DJB-Bass_Pedals/
>
>I have evolved the code a bit and did add portamento only to discover
>I don't have a single MIDI synth that implements it.

When I first got into MIDI I already knew that MIDI messages supported
portamento, but I couldn't find a synth that supported it either.  I
have 3 sound modules (Roland) and a Korg WaveStation and none support
it.  I wrote a MIDI message processor program that creates the
portamento effect by calculating and sending a stream of MIDI pitch
wheel messages, but that's a completely different way of doing it and it
uses a lot of MIDI bandwidth.  It works very well as a performance tool,
but doesn't do well in a sequenced environment.  That's when I started
looking at analog synths that are MIDI capable.




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