I’m curious if glissando on the Erae Touch II is the same as pitch bend?
Also, what is vibrato? I know it’s high frequency pitch change, but how is it implements on the Erae Touch II?
P.S. with the last 2 firmware updates, the Erae is behaving really well for me now.
so with Erae (same for 1 and 2 iirc) , Glissando refers to a pitch slide across pads/cells, whereas vibrato is within a particular cell.
for ‘normal’ expressive play you have both on, so this allows a continuous slide and also just vibrato within a cell.
but its quite nice for some sound (like keys), so just allow vibrato within a cell, this would be somewhat similar to say the Osmose.
Glissando on its own can be used if don’t want any pitch change until you move outside the cell, i.e… it creates a lot of pitch stability.
this is all rather different to how many expressive controllers work, which don’t really have a concept of cells/keys and so pitch tends to be locked or allow freely based on touch location - perhaps with some initial pitch rounding/stabilisation on initial touch, and release.
overall, Id say, purists won’t like it as much…tending to prefer that touch/movement is directly attached, with as little artificial smoothing/locking as possible (though I suspect vast majority do employ initial rounding ;)))
hmm, I do not mean to be purist to be elitist here… perhaps rather purists are those more into microtonal where locking to any western stable would be seen as problematic !
however, I do think the Erae approach is very practical/musical, as for many musical styles keeping pitch under control within scales (easily) is a good thing.
also… sensors are never perfect, so a bit of ‘intelligence’ can smooth over technical limitations. (perhaps more useful on the Erae 1, than Erae 2)
Very much appreciate the explanation! I suspected and hoped that’s what it was and personally do like to have vibrato within each cell as a separate control.