RE: pitch bend units?

Yes, the default pitch bend range is standardised to +- 200 cents.
Many instruments allow this range to be changed, but the way to do that
is not specified in the MIDI standard.
The allowed values are 0 .. 16383 or, if you take the offset of 8192 into
account, -8192 .. 8191. A change of 100 cents corresponds to 4096.
The Soundblaster conforms to this range.
If you give the command SET ATTRIBUTE PITCH_BEND to Scala, it gives the
relative pitch bends for the nearest semitone, in the range
-2048..2047.

Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl

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> 19TET and 31TET, if you treat them as closures of 1/3-comma and
> 1/4-comma meantone, yessir. 17TET, I suppose, can also be regarded as
> the closure of a chain of fifths.
> But well-temperament? NO! (in 72-point Gothic font)

Yes indeedie; you're slabolutely right. I wasn't paying attention to
what I was saying there, and instead thinking about the tunings I was
calling attention to (meantone, JI, etc.).

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