Re: Pitchbend

i would love to answer your questions but to be honest they are way over my head. i would highly suggest to join the yamaha Dx 7 group at yahoo groups. Those guys really know there stuff.
garry

On Nov 27, 2018 6:52 AM, "geoff baltan [email protected] [YamahaDX]" <[email protected]> wrote:


Hi All -

I wanted to ask a couple of questions about how pitch bend is
implemented in a DX7 (mark 1). I'm controlling it with an external
MIDI signal.

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?

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?

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?

Thanks all,
Geoff