re: MIDI pitch bend

>I'm having trouble getting my EMU Proteus to play microtonally:
>I use a Macintosh with Vision, and have sequenced lines, inserting pitch
>bend messages for microtonal alterations. On playback, though, I kkep
>hearing the "bending" between each note. How do I get it to attack each
>pitch without these little glissandi?
>-Adam
>asilverm@email.ir.miami.edu

Move the pitch bend to a point earlier in the file. Before the
note you're bending. I use Cakewalk Pro for Windows. If I open an event
window, I can look at every midi event on one or more channels.
This makes midi events look more like a programming language.

What I'd like to know is how to translate +/- 99 cents into +/- 8192
pitch bends. I use a Proteus/2 and I find that with tunings
that have more than 12 tones the timbre of the samples get
stretched so much that a clarinet or a bassoon don't sound right.

Also, I'd be able to change tunings in a piece at whim. I wouldn't
have to mess with the tuning tables of the synth.

David Beardsley
IMMP & Bink! music
dmb5561719@aol.com

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