The first orc/sco (with same MIDI file) shown in my previous post (quoted
below) works with Winsound 3.511 and Consound 3.511 (running under Windows
95). Thank you, jpff.

Terry Cast


Terry Cast wrote:

> Please excuse me for taking so long to reply, I have been too busy to get
> to it this week.
>
> The following orchestra works fine with DirectCsound 2.5 and 2.6 (on
> Windows 95), but produces only a steadily pitched tone with Consound 3.51
> and Winsound 3.51 (the test MIDI file is just one long note, during which
> I added some pitchbending--I can send the MIDI file by attachment to the
> list or directly to you if you would like to see it).
>
> sr=44100
> kr=4410
> nchnls=1
>
>  instr 1
> kpch pchmidib  12
> asig oscil 10000, cpspch(kpch), 1
>  out asig
>  endin
>
> ;score
> f1 0 4096 10 1
> f0 25
>
> This next orchestra (with same score and MIDI file, all of the versions of
> Csound listed above) results in a jump of several octaves in pitch each
> time there is a new pitchbend message. Am I doing something wrong (I
> wouldn't be surprised)? Is pchbend supposed to work this way?
>
> sr=44100
> kr=4410
> nchnls=1
>
>  instr 1
> ipch pchmidi ; translate MIDI note number to pch
> kbend pchbend 4 ; get pitchbend messages and scale them to range of 0
> through 4
> kpch = ipch + (kbend-2) ; shift pch value of note by value of kbend (range
> of -2 through 2)
> asig oscil 10000, cpspch(kpch), 1
>  out asig
>  endin
>
> I hope this at least partly answers your question.
>
> Terry Cast
>
> jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:
>
> > Message written at 24 Jan 1999 17:05:15 +0000
> >
> > On 15 Dec 1998 I sent a message saying that I thought I was on the
> > track of a screw-up in pitchbend.  The revised code was in v3.50 but
> > so far I have not heard from anyone that it either does or does not
> > work.  If you have any experience to offer with respect to bending for
> > v3.50 or later, I would like to hear -- positive or negative.
> > ==John ffitch