Hi, On 19/09/2022 18:18, Tom M. via fluid-dev wrote:
One thing that keeps annoying me about Soundfonts is that there is no way to specify the initial pitch of an instrument in the instrument itself. The spec defines generators for an "initial attenuation", "initial filter Q and FC", and many more. But there is no such thing when it comes to the initial pitch wheel sensitivity or pitch bend range. Everything completely relies on the default initialization of MIDI RPN0, which is defined to be 2 semitones.
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Any opinions or comments? Tom
Honestly, IMHO I feel pitch bend sensitivity should not be defined by the synth and/or the soundfont for various reasons.
In the case of hardware pitch bend the choice of sensitivity (i.e. range) can really depend on the hardware control and person using it... They might want a broader range to move the controller less or a smaller range to have more fine-grained.
Additionally because the pitch bend value is fixed at 14 bits (i.e. +/- 8191), increasing the sensitivity will decrease precision (results depending on the synth / soundfont). So the choice should be left to the user.
It is de facto standard that by default the range is +/- 2 semitones (although I couldn't find it directly in the MIDI standard), so changing the default could be confusing and break existing MIDI (and MIDI-based sequencer / DAW) files.
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