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      The Artiprog (I think we're talking about this: <a
        class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://artiphon.com/"
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      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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        href="https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/issues/154"
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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" moz-do-not-send="true">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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        href="https://sourceforge.net/p/yoshimi/feature-requests/13/"
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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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    Actually, Artiprog is the editor, the device is an
    Artiphon:Instrument1. But that's just being picky.<br>
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    I don't understand why pending samples should be a problem. I've had
    a Korg X5DR for years, that is<br>
    a sample-based synth module and it bends pitches just how I expect.
    I'm not expecting it to produce<br>
    a perfect rendering of the sounds, something that sounds like a
    fretless bass is all I'm asking for.<br>
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    I guess I'll have to hack around and see what alternatives I can
    find.<br>
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    Bill<br>
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