Hey Ben, > The pitch bend controller simply moves between the upper and lower limits. > The pitch bend RANGE is what you need to set. I don't know what the default > is for FS, but from what you said it sounds like it is 4 semitones
I think I've found it now. By sending 0 to "control_change" 100 and 101 and then sending 1 to control_change 6 this gives me one semitone up and down. I don't see a way to just just get one semitone up, though. I am closer now, at least. Thanks, Dave On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Ben Gonzales <b...@gonzos.net> wrote: > Hi Dave. > > The pitch bend controller simply moves between the upper and lower limits. > The pitch bend RANGE is what you need to set. I don't know what the default > is for FS, but from what you said it sounds like it is 4 semitones > > Google "pitch bend range" and you'll get the required MIDI commands > > Ben > > > On 15/08/16 04:09, David Bellows wrote: >> >> I'm working on a project that generates music using any tuning the >> user selects. I had been using Timidity because it supports the MIDI >> Tuning Standard. However, I just discovered that it supports it badly. >> >> So now I've switched to using pitch bend with Fluidsynth. The fact >> that it allows for 256 channels instead of the MIDI standard 16 pretty >> much solves most of my problems that I was having with Timidity. >> >> Here's where things get interesting. >> >> When using Timidity and the MIDI Tuning Standard I was able to get >> 16,384 pitches between each semitone. When using pitch bend, though, >> that same number of values, 16,384 pitches is stretched between two >> whole tones (four semitones). This is interesting because Timidity is >> capable of the higher resolution. >> >> My question is, can Fluidsynth handle this higher resolution and I can >> I tell it to use all 16,384 values between two semitones instead of >> stretched across the two whole tones? It seems like a bit of magic but >> if it can do this then my problems are truly solved. >> >> Thanks, >> Dave >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fluid-dev mailing list >> fluid-dev@nongnu.org >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > fluid-dev mailing list > fluid-dev@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev
