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What you really want is OSC. os. 2008/11/19 Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>: >> andy butler schrieb: >>> >>> Varispeed by midi Note seems popular, I'd be thinking that if you had >that >>> you wouldn't need to restrict midi CC to discrete values, but that in >>> addition >>> an unquantised midi CC control would be useful. > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Stefan Tiedje > <stefantiedje@googlemail.com> wrote: >> If controlling pitch with CC, you need to do it with 14-bit precision. >The >> usuall Midi event aimed at that would be pitchbend btw... >> 7-bit are not sufficient, especially with bigger ranges. 14-bit is sort >of >> ok... > > > Stefan, at first sight I found your message difficult to understand > because both MIDI PitchBend and all the MIDI CC's split the data range > into 128 possible values. One might of course discuss whether this > resolution really should be labeled "continuous" and I guess you were > not meaning "MIDI CC" when you wrote "CC", but rather some other CC > system with a higher resolution? If so, you're post makes sense. > > There are indeed other systems around for continuous control that > offer much better resolution, but I doubt it would make sense to go > into that for the cause of "making vibrato" or "performing virtual > scratching" with audio loops. I myself use a higher resolution CC > system when composing in Logic by painting automation graphs and in > that context it really makes a difference, meaning you hear the > smoother transition of sound. On the Repeater I also noticed that it > was impossible to use MIDI CC's 128 steps to set up clean pitch > intervals. Some intervals sounded out of tune and it wasn't possible > to fix that because the musically correct MIDI CC value should have > been somewhere between two steps. What a bummer! But when using semi > tone note steps I've never had that problem, on the Repeater or any > other looper that does pitch change. > > -- > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se (Swedish) > www.looproom.com (international) > www.myspace.com/perboysen > www.stockholm-athens.com > > -- os@collective.co.uk http://www.darkroomtheband.net/ http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/