Every spec I’ve seen references the Glissando button on the Striso, but I haven’t seen any reference to how it actually works. So, how does it actually work?
-Frank
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Thanks for the question.
While the glissando button is pressed, instead of triggering a new note when played, the pitch of the last played note is averaged with the new note, weighted with the pressure. This makes it possible to slide from one note to another smoothly in any desired speed, either very quick (portamento) or slower (glissando), depending on the press/release time.
In the MIDI output the slide is sent as a pitch bend, which means it can only be used in MPE (one note per channel) mode. In monophonic mode glissando is always enabled.
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In my experience the glissando is only true for the internal instrument. With midi output, playing notes legato gets me some distance pitch bent to the next note but no matter how hard I press on next note or take my finger off the first note, I do not get fully to the next note. Often nowhere even close if the second note is an octave or more away. Is this a limitation of using pitch bend or am I doing something wrong?
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Have you checked the pitch bend settings of the receiving hardware/software? By default striso sends pitch bend midi on a 48 semitone scale. The non-MPE standard is a 2 semitone scale, and MPE has a second standard which I assume you may have encountered: 24 semitones.
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