Re: trying to get pitch bend to work

"Jonathan E. Brickman" <jeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 12 Sep 2017 06:19:24 -0500



    The Artiprog (I think we're talking about this:
    https://artiphon.com/) is one amazing controller.  Six stacked
    octaves [for a keyboardist] with velocity and aftertouch for $400? 
    Dear God, what hath thou wrought :-)  I do hope they do an
    eight-octave version, I would miss the extreme octaves, but still,
    wow.

    
        Response to
          pitch bend is partially a function of the soundfont loaded
          into fluid. There are several (lots?) that don't respond, and
          many that do. 

          
        I very very
          much doubt that Fluid responds to the pitch bend range RPN,
          but hey, I've been wrong before.

        
    It does appear that Fluidsynth knows about pitch bend:

    
    https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/issues/154

    
    but given that you're not hearing it happen, there may indeed be
    different question-beasts involved, both soundfonts' responses
    and/or fluidsynth options.  I have done a bit of editing and study
    of  some soundfonts ( http://polyphone-soundfonts.com ) and did not
    see pitch bend response in the GUIs, though I will be unsurprised to
    be told better.  

    
    It appears that Yoshimi and ZynAddSubFX, live synthesizers, both do
    pitch bend:

    
    https://sourceforge.net/p/yoshimi/feature-requests/13/

    
    and live synth should (theoretically) be more of a slam-dunk for
    pitch bending, because pitch control is not an option for the live
    synth, it's an absolute base-core item...whereas soundfonts
    themselves contain discrete note-chunks that would have to be
    morphed by the soundfont handler to make it happen well.

    
      -- 

      
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