MIDI pitch bend tuning

Graham, responding to Gary, writes:

> MIDI transmits 3125 instructions per second. A pitch bend is 3
> instructions. To send 16 of these takes 3*16/3125*1000=15.36 ms,
> or twice as much if you include the note-ons as well. Is this
> really a problem?
>
> > i don't like using pitch bend...the pitch bend affects all notes on that
> > channel, meaning that you can really only do monophonic stuff. yuck.
>
> That depends on your software, of course. With GM, you're
> limited to 15 melodic notes per MIDI stream. It's quite
> possible to go beyond this, but I've never wanted to.

It's not really a matter of ips. It's a problem for real-time playing under
most circumstances. If one has an Opcode Studio 5 or something like it, it's
possible to set up a "patch" that will reassign any note number to any MIDI
channel/OUT in real time. But for most of us that's not an option. Not to
mention that spending 12 to 15 channels per timbre virtually prohibits even
moderately complex orchestrations without a staggering amount of MIDI gear.



SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu
From: Mckyyy@aol.com
Subject: FasTrak
PostedDate: 21-09-97 21:52:04
SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH
ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu
$UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH
RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH
RouteTimes: 21-09-97 21:51:48-21-09-97 21:51:49,21-09-97 21:50:58-21-09-97 21:50:58
DeliveredDate: 21-09-97 21:50:58
Categories:
$Revisions:

Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id
C1256519.006D1B32; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:51:43 +0200
Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03283; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:52:04 +0200
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:52:04 +0200
Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03281
Received: (qmail 20011 invoked from network); 21 Sep 1997 19:48:01 -0000
Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1)
by localhost with SMTP; 21 Sep 1997 19:48:01 -0000
Message-Id: <970921133559_-928565629@emout14.mail.aol.com>
Errors-To: madole@mills.edu
Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu
Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu
Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu