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Right, but how can you get it to control a MIDI synthesizer so as not 
to play individual notes when sliding up and down the ribbon?

Ivan


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Juskiw <scott@...>
To: ivancu@...; motm@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 10:07:51 -0600
Subject: [motm] Re: Ribbon Controller - Kurzweil Expressionmate

  Check if the Expressionmate can do either of these:

  1. Can it output a continuous controller message instead of note 
on/off?
 2. Can it output note on/off with pitch bend?

  Either of these modes should be able to produce a reasonably smooth 
portamento from MIDI messages. The brand D ribbon controller supports 
both of these.

 At 10:26 AM -0400 2005/07/30, ivancu@... wrote:
  >I had bought an Expressionmate when they first came out and was 
turned
  >off by the fact that it output info as pure MIDI notes, so instead of 
a
 >continuous "portamento" it was a "glissando." Of course later I
 >realized that this is a function of MIDI, where it is designed around
 >discrete notes rather than continuous variable voltages.
 >
 >Is there a way to get around this?