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Bend Group
Overview
The Bend Group allows various shapes of automatic pitch
bending to be applied to individual notes as they are
generated. It also allows a special "arpeggiated bending"
option to be applied to Drum Patterns.
However, no bending will actually occur unless the Phase
Pattern has been configured to allow it. This allows effects to
be set up where bending only occurs in one or more steps of
the Phase Pattern, while other steps have no bending.
Bending is also affected by the Rhythm Pattern's "no bend"
row. Bending will normally be triggered with every single
generated note or cluster within a Phase Pattern step where
General Parameters
On/Off
0: Off
1: On
Allows the bending effects to be turned on or off. While
there are several other ways to disable bending effects, this is
mainly provided to allow the RT Parms to control this in
real-time. Note that this has no effect if there are no Phase
Pattern Steps with bending enabled, or every step of the
Rhythm Pattern has a "no bend" row activated.
Amount
0: Random
–12...12: -12...+12 semitones
13: Next Note
14: Next Note +1
Sets the size in semitones of the bends, or selects one of
several special bending options. Note that the actual
resulting size of the bend also depends on the setting of the
"Bend Range" parameter, described later on. The following
descriptions apply when the "Bend Range" (p.1091) value is
12 (an octave). If the "Bend Range" was 6, the semitones
would actually be half-semitones; if the "Bend Range" was
24, the semitones would actually be whole tones.
0: Random (-12...12)
Each bend selects a random semitone size from -12–12
(excluding 0).
-12...12: -12...+12 semitones
Bends each note the selected semitone size.
13: Next Note
Bends each note to what will be the next note. For example,
if the notes to be generated were {C, E, G, B, C...}, then the
C will bend to the E, the E will bend to the G, etc. This is
very useful for simulation of portamento, or effects like
sliding from one bass note to another within a phrase.
14: Next Note +1
Bends each note to what will be the note 2 notes from the
current note. For example, if the notes to be generated were
{C, E, G, B, C...}, then the C will bend to the G, the E will
bend to the B, etc.
[0, 1]
[–12...18]
15: Next Note +2
16: Prev Note
17: Prev Note –1
18: Prev Note –2
bending is activated; by using the "no bend" row, you can
specify that bends will not occur on various notes (single
steps) of the Rhythm Pattern. For more information, see
Rhythm Group: "Pattern Grid & Associated Parameters" on
page 1057.
Note that even if bending is properly activated, you may not
be hearing any bending effects if the 7–2b: Transmitted
MIDI Filter: "Pitch Bend" parameter (+PG p.115) has been
set to filter out the pitch bend that KARMA is generating.
15: Next Note +2
Bends each note to what will be the note 3 notes from the
current note. For example, if the notes to be generated were
{C, E, G, B, C...}, then the C will bend to the B, the E will
bend to the second C, etc.
16: Prev Note
Bends each note to what was the previous note. For example,
if the notes to be generated were {C, E, G, B, C...}, then the
E would bend to the C, the G would bend to the E, the B
would bend to the G, etc. In this case, if C was the first note
to be generated, a bend to E would be calculated since there
is no actual "previous" note.
17: Prev Note –1
Bends each note to the note that was two notes previous. For
example, if the notes to be generated were {C, E, G, B,
C...}, then the G will bend to the C, the B will bend to the E,
etc.
18: Prev Note –2
Bends each note to the note that was three notes previous.
For example, if the notes to be generated were {C, E, G, B,
C...}, then the B will bend to the C, the second C will bend
to the E, etc.
For the 3 Previous Note settings, when no notes have yet
been played, KARMA extrapolates what it thinks the bends
would have been for the first few notes, based on various
settings. Most of the time this will produce a "musical-
sounding" bend.
For the Next and Previous Note settings, a bend of 0 is not
allowed, even if the next or previous notes to be generated
are the same pitch. In this case, a bend to the next or
previous note in the Note Series will be used, in order to
preserve the illusion of continuous bending. If all
possibilities are exhausted, a bend of an octave (12) will be
used.
13, 14, 15, 17 & 18 not available when "GE Type" ("GE
Type" on page 1045) is 3: Real-Time.
Bend Group Overview
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