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    The Artiprog (I think we're talking about this:
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://artiphon.com/">https://artiphon.com/</a>) 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.<br>
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          style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. <br>
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          style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I very very
          much doubt that Fluid responds to the pitch bend range RPN,
          but hey, I've been wrong before.<br>
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    It does appear that Fluidsynth knows about pitch bend:<br>
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    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/issues/154">https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/issues/154</a><br>
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    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 ( <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://polyphone-soundfonts.com">http://polyphone-soundfonts.com</a> ) and did not
    see pitch bend response in the GUIs, though I will be unsurprised to
    be told better.  <br>
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    It appears that Yoshimi and ZynAddSubFX, live synthesizers, both do
    pitch bend:<br>
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    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sourceforge.net/p/yoshimi/feature-requests/13/">https://sourceforge.net/p/yoshimi/feature-requests/13/</a><br>
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    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.<br
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