Hi there! Hopefully the music theory forum here is the right place to ask this (or, if not, a moderator can hopefully move this to one of the other forums).
I'm kind of new to music and transcribing, and wanted to learn how to transcribe pitch bends. So I've been trying to transcribe a GameBoy track that uses a pitch bend* because of the ability to separate individual instruments and focus on them more. (It also seems to be easier for my ear to detect pitch bends with those "chiptune" instruments.)
So my question is this: does anyone have any advice for transcribing pitch bends?
Thank you in advance!
*Audio: https://clyp.it/lgel23bz .
My MIDI transcription so far: https://mega.nz/#!IpoGFabJ!_vZ1lfPHgAgj ... phV4qV-Hbw .
Transcribing pitch bends?
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- KVRAF
- 25053 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
If there is one, I would pay attention to how long it takes as well as to the pitch.
MIDI Pitch Bend is 14-bit, ie., 8192 values plus or minus. So, a synth that only does two semitones, one semitone higher = +4096 in the pitch bend lane and so on.
MIDI Pitch Bend is 14-bit, ie., 8192 values plus or minus. So, a synth that only does two semitones, one semitone higher = +4096 in the pitch bend lane and so on.
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- KVRAF
- 15260 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
I hear some vibrato, a special case of pitch bend (lfo to pitch) which you control with the modulation wheel. Not the pitch bender. It goes a bit too fast to control it manually with pitch bend.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrato
In midi this is recorded with CC (continuous controller) number one. It's the most used one.
Then it is up to the synth patch whether it controls volume or pitch modulation of the LFO, an at what rate. This is out of control of midi.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrato
In midi this is recorded with CC (continuous controller) number one. It's the most used one.
Then it is up to the synth patch whether it controls volume or pitch modulation of the LFO, an at what rate. This is out of control of midi.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 16 posts since 3 Jun, 2019
Thanks for your responses, jancivil and BertKoor! I tried using the vibrato MIDI CC as suggested, and it seems to work for the intended effect, but I'll need to learn to get used to using the modulation wheel for vibrato.
(I knew that vibrato existed before, but thought it might sound "out of tune". That kind of shows how inexperienced I am, I think, haha.)
Thanks again for your help!
(I knew that vibrato existed before, but thought it might sound "out of tune". That kind of shows how inexperienced I am, I think, haha.)
Thanks again for your help!
