[PD] Synths! (Please Read)

[Chuckk Hubbard]

On 4/1/06, Alexandre Quessy <listes at sourcelibre.com> wrote:
> Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
>
> >On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>If each whole note number is assigned to a different pitch of the scale,
> >>there's barely more than 2 octaves in 128 notes.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You don't have to limit yourself to 0-127 in Pd. You also are not limited
> >to integer note numbers.
> >
> >
> >
> Hey, (I just got a midi keyboard controller) why not multiplying two
> 0-127 ctlin to obtain more precision !! Any success story regarding that ?

That's essentially what pitch bend is.  You have a 0-127 number for
the note, and then two 0-127's to describe alterations to the pitch,
typically over a range of 2 whole tones, so that each half-step gets
4096 increments.


>
> >>For my purposes, frequency in Hz is the only way to go.  MIDI is useful
> >>sometimes,
> >>
> >>
> I find PD's midi notes very flexible. You an use them as withs scales
> with commas too. Look my jam abstraction on my website, maybe. (in muzaq)

Interesting patch.  By "commas" you don't mean tuning commas, do you?

-Chuckk