12 Sep
2017
12 Sep
'17
3:43 p.m.
On 12/09/17 12:19, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
The Artiprog (I think we're talking about this:
https://artiphon.com/)
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.
Actually, Artiprog is the editor, the
device is an Artiphon:Instrument1.
But that's just being picky.
I don't understand why pending samples should be a problem. I've had a
Korg X5DR for years, that is
a sample-based synth module and it bends pitches just how I expect. I'm
not expecting it to produce
a perfect rendering of the sounds, something that sounds like a fretless
bass is all I'm asking for.
I guess I'll have to hack around and see what alternatives I can find.
Bill
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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.
I very very much doubt that Fluid responds to the pitch bend range
RPN, but hey, I've been wrong before.
It does appear that Fluidsynth knows
about pitch bend:
https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/issues/154
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 ( http://polyphone-soundfonts.com ) and did not see pitch
bend response in the GUIs, though I will be unsurprised to be told
better.
It appears that Yoshimi and ZynAddSubFX, live synthesizers, both do
pitch bend:
https://sourceforge.net/p/yoshimi/feature-requests/13/
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.
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