[sdiy] Vibrato range

[Roman Sowa]

Going that route one might say that in 16-bit audio the highest 
frequency that can be reproduced is about 0.7Hz at 96ksps because it 
takes that much time to do a full cycle over all possible values.

The example didn't use 1LSB steps at any point AFAIR. The fastest 
possible MIDI PitchBend update rate is about 1.5kHz, and that's assuming 
Runing Status, or about 1kHz with status byte sent at all times.
In fast modulation such resolution is not that important, but if for 
example you like to detune 2 oscillators by a tiny bit to get desired 
beating rate, this is not possible with only 7-bit value and huge tuning 
range at the same time.

Roman


W dniu 2016-05-10 o 00:04, Mattias Rickardsson pisze:
> On 7 May 2016 at 10:31,  <rsdio at audiobanshee.com> wrote:
>> Your example seems to prove that 14-bit MIDI Pitch Bend has no problem with unwanted stepping over 10 octaves. If my math is correct, there are 136.5 pitch bend steps per 100 cents when bending 10 octaves. Why do people complain about MIDI being "limited?"
>
> Because it takes 15 seconds to do that sweep with those 2^14 pitchbend
> messages. Even more if you want to do something else while waiting.
>
> MIDI is slow and limited in temporal sense, not always in precision. :-)
>
> /mr
>