Doepfer

You probably mix up the terms legato and portamento (or glide or slew) ? The
term for the "continuous pitch slide" is portamento. Legato (i.e. gate
permanent "on" in the modular world) can be combined with or without
portamento/glide/slew. To be honest I don't know what's the difference
between portamento and glissando.

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer


> 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.
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> 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”.
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> Again, sorry for having raised an illogical issue…
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> Best wishes,
> dxx
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> Il giorno 25 lug 2017, alle ore 09:50, Florian Anwander
> fanwander@mnet-online.de [Doepfer_a100]
> <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> ha scritto:
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> Hi Diego
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> Am 24.07.2017 um 20:28 schrieb Diego Ragnini diegora@free.fr
> [Doepfer_a100]:
> > continuous pitch movement (i.e. legato between the notes),
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> I think the problem of your explanation is, that you mismatch wordings.
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> 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.
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> So again the question: what do you want? Continous pitch change or
> stepped pitch changes with no gate interruption?
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> Florian
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