[sdiy] MIDI HD

Marc Nostromo [M-.-n] marc.nostromo at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 18:37:41 CET 2013


Yeah but there's only one pitch bend per midi channel. So it doesn't
really fit 'precision controller' in a wide sense.

2013/1/21 Paul Maddox <yo at vacoloco.net>:
> Ooo, careful.
> Midi pitch bend is a 14bit variable.
> And it's not difficult two work with two 7 bit numbers.
>
>
> On Monday, January 21, 2013, Marc Nostromo [M-.-n] wrote:
>>
>> There is a 'high-resolution' midi cc indeed but it's implementation
>> makes it so unpractical (it combines 2 cc in Hi/Lo nibbles) that
>> nobody implements it. Especially on the controller side.
>>
>> 2013/1/21 Neil Johnson <neil.johnson97 at ntlworld.com>:
>> > Michael Zacherl wrote:
>> >> 14 bits would be fine, _if_ they were for real.
>> >> But how many commercial devices do really support 14 bits?
>> >> Even the 40mm faders of my cheap nanoKontrol are not
>> >> short enough to "hide" the coarse 128 steps resolution.
>> >
>> > Ah, so it's not the MIDI protocol itself, but lazy manufacturers who
>> > don't implement it well enough for you?
>> > Perhaps you could talk to some of these manufacturers and see if
>> > they'll support 14-bits?  Personally I'd start with Roman Sowa.
>> >
>> > Neil
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