Pbend (Pitch Bend) Range

[garamoniker]

Hi guys,

Apologies, I promise this will be my last rookie question...for a while.

I want to increase the pitch bend range to a full octave. I've blindly tried:

• {type: pbend, chan: 1=2-6, par: 12}

But, of course, to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!

[albedozero]

All levels of question are welcome! That's totally what this forum is for.

You can change the pitch bend range using a registered parameter number (RPN). These are special control change messages you can send to modify synthesizer parameters, and they're part of the MIDI specification. Put the following in a messages block in your bank file:

messages:
- cc:1:101:0
- cc:1:100:0
- cc:1:6:12

The first two messages select the pitch bend range RPN on MIDI channel 1, then the third sets it to 12 semitones (a full octave). I'm working on a lesson video about all the things you can do with RPNs and NRPNs, but this blog post has a good explanation.

[garamoniker]

Thanks again for your sagacity, Bill. I presume this can nestle comfortably beneath router rules, above the patches?

[albedozero]

Yes - in fact, the ordering of router_rules, messages, patches, fluidsettings etc. doesn't matter, except that if you have more than one (e.g. two messages blocks) only the last one will be used.

[garamoniker]

Ah! Okay. So, for instance, with the demonstration file you've provided with the Squishbox setup, you have:

init:
messages: [cc:4:37:60, cc:4:65:127, cc:4:68:127,
cc:5:71:0, cc:5:73:0, cc:5:74:0, cc:5:78:40, cc:5:79:40, cc:5:80:80, cc:5:81:127, cc:5:82:80,
cc:5:71:0, cc:5:73:0, cc:5:74:0, cc:5:78:40, cc:5:79:40, cc:5:80:80, cc:5:81:127, cc:5:82:80,
cc:6:100:0, cc:6:101:0, cc:6:6:12, cc:6:38:0]

At the bottom of the script. So, if I just slap it in there, like this (please see last three messages added):

init:
messages: [cc:4:37:60, cc:4:65:127, cc:4:68:127,
cc:5:71:0, cc:5:73:0, cc:5:74:0, cc:5:78:40, cc:5:79:40, cc:5:80:80, cc:5:81:127, cc:5:82:80,
cc:5:71:0, cc:5:73:0, cc:5:74:0, cc:5:78:40, cc:5:79:40, cc:5:80:80, cc:5:81:127, cc:5:82:80,
cc:6:100:0, cc:6:101:0, cc:6:6:12, cc:6:38:0, cc:1:101:0, cc:1:100:0, cc:1:6:12]

[albedozero]

Exactly. Also, by putting it in theinit block it just gets set once, when the bank is loaded.

[garamoniker]

Awesome. Thanks so much, Bill.