Re: Mutitimbral - philosophy
Re: Mutitimbral - philosophy
- Subject: Re: Mutitimbral - philosophy
- From: "Angus F. Hewlett" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:11:06 +0100
At 11:06 PM 7/16/2003 +0100, Richard Dobson wrote:
>
One interesting use of a multi-timbral synth is as a guitar synthesizer.
In many
>
such systems, each string is synthesized on a different MIDI Channel, in
order
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that string-bending can be made independent for each string (many controls
in
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MIDI are channel-wide, most significantly pitchbend).
That strikes me as something of a hack... I know it's how it is commonly
done today, but the best way of accomplishing what you want there is for
the API to support note-level parameters rather than sending the notes on
different MIDI channels.
>
As I am merely luking on this list, and therefore not in a position to be
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actively programming AudioUnits (yet), I am not in the best position to
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comment, but I do worry about sentiments (which seem to be combined with a
deep
>
sniff at anything so lotech as MIDI) which seem to suggest that users
should be
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required/expected to change to fit the software.
That's progress. If users weren't required to change sometimes, we'd still
be using Apple II's, MS-DOS or even (perish the thought) OS 9, and having
our synths talk to each other by CV/Gate.
Regards,
Angus.
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Angus F. Hewlett, Technical Director
FXpansion Audio UK Ltd -
http://www.fxpansion.com
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