| It is possible to LucyTuned your sequences to the nearest 64th of a semitone
using MIDI pitchbend. Check that your MIDI equipment can recognise and respond to
pitchbend data
The current pitchbend range operating on your equipment may be
adjustable (see the operating manual), if this is not clear or you wish to test the
current range test it as follows: 1. Make a simple MIDI
sequence of two adjacent notes (one semitone apart) Eg. G#4 and A4. Play the sequence and
you should hear two notes a semitone apart. 2. Now add a
pitchbend value to the lower of the two notes, at a value of +4096 and a value of 0 to the
higher note. Listen to the two notes again. If the notes are now the same pitch your
pitchbend range is set at 4096 units per semitone. Experiment by changing the values until you get it right, and discover how
many pitchbend units are required to bend your equipment by one semitone. This will tell
you which column (d, or e) of the table below to use. Pitchbend usually effects only the assigned channel, and all notes played on
that channel will be "bent" until another pitchbend command is received. Therefore to
LucyTune your sequence you may have to move notes to other channels, so that there is only
ever one note per channel at any time. (Remember to
reset all the A's to zero) 3. Each note will need to be
pitchbent by the appropriate amount. This is a tedious procedure, yet the results can be
quite satisfying. You can make the conversion easier by using copy and paste in your
sequencer's edit program. Using the table below and the
appropriate pitchbend ranges (columns d, or e) you can set the pitchbend of each note
(column a) which you wish to use by adjusting the value for the MIDI note named in column
b. The cent values are also included for users of
Ensoniq, Korg M series, and other cent programmable equipment (column c). | 