Re: Pitchbend

> On Nov 27, 2018, at 20:52, geoff baltan [email protected] [YamahaDX] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 1. I believe the range of potential values is 0 to 16382, or 16384.
> I'm a little unclear about which. It would mean that either 8191 or
> 8192 is the "center point" (no bend added). Is that all correct?
> 
Some documents say the range is 14 bits, MIDI implementation for OS version 1.6 shows 7 bit resolution. So it’s not quite clear what is sent to the internal tone generator and what is sent to MIDI output.
> 
> 2. I believe that you can program the DX7 so that the pitch wheel
> doesn't use the "full excursion", but presumably that doesn't change
> the range of 0 to 16384, on a patch-by-patch basis. So, in terms of
> pitch, what is the actual range here? Is it something that can be
> measured in semitones?
> 
It is possible to set the range of bending to 1-12 semitones.
> 
> 3. It does not seem possible to assign pitchbends to individual notes.
> I know that the DX7 II has some kind of a pitch reprogramming
> feature.. but is there any way to do something similar with a DX7 I?
> 
No.

Daniel Forro