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Re: [Doepfer_a100] Doepfer R2M V2 Midi Ribbon Controller - quantized scales

2017-07-25 by Diego Ragnini

Florian thanks for clarifying this aspect, as usual you’re very precise. 
Indeed, legato doesn’t exactly match the meaning… but it’s not that far. I used the term legato referring (in my mind) to any possible physical instruments closer to the ribbon: a fretless keyboard, the likes of a double bass keyboard. In that case, legato performs a continuous pitch slide (faster or slower, according to desired effect) from one (fretless) step to the next (fretless) step. And of course, the gate is necessarily high, just like it is high when the same action is performed on the ribbon.

By the way, as discovered by myself in the last paragraph of my previous message, there’s no (logical) way to have both the above mentioned feature (call it legato, continuous pitch slide…) and a given quantized scale “at the same time”. 

Again, sorry for having raised an illogical issue…

Best wishes,
dxx


> Il giorno 25 lug 2017, alle ore 09:50, Florian Anwander fanwander@mnet-online.de [Doepfer_a100] <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> ha scritto:
> 
> Hi Diego
> 
> Am 24.07.2017 um 20:28 schrieb Diego Ragnini diegora@free.fr <mailto:diegora@free.fr> [Doepfer_a100]:
> > continuous pitch movement (i.e. legato between the notes),
> 
> I think the problem of your explanation is, that you mismatch wordings.
> 
> Legato is not a wording to describe pitch changes! The easiest 
> explanation is given with CV and Gate. "Legato" means: CV changes in 
> steps while the Gate still is high. "Continous pitch movement" means, 
> that there are no steps in the change of the CV, but it does not say, 
> whether the Gate is high or low.
> 
> So again the question: what do you want? Continous pitch change or 
> stepped pitch changes with no gate interruption?
> 
> Florian
> 
> -- 
> http://www.florian-anwander.de <http://www.florian-anwander.de/>
> 
>

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