Pitch Bending

[HoboKa]

How do you make pitch bends? I'm guilty to admit that I looked into the Schala Midi, and I found that the unique flute sound was made by making the pitch gradually go down on the note :-0. I've looked up tutorials and such and found no answers, help please

[OverCoat]

You see that knob on the left of your midi keyboard? Touch it.

[Tensei]

If you have no midi-keyboard, things might get a bit more complicated. You'll probably have to mess around with the automation on the pitch wheels in your sequencer or something, at least, that's what I did with the synth in my castlevania WIP

[HoboKa]

yeah I've tried doing that - got no Midi keyboard lol. Love the remix btw Sensai

[dannthr]

Pitch is one of the many MIDI controls available to you--are you using a sequencer? If so, which one?

Start there and you can begin to make pitch bends--there will be documentation telling you how with your software.

[Mia]

It'd be a bit easier for us to answer this question if you told us what you use.

FL Studio has a kind of note in the piano roll called a 'slide note.' But that isn't the only way..

[HoboKa]

Okay, I don't think that I sequence (heck don't even know what sequencing), I use plug-ins for FL, the sampler and Soundfont generator to make my music. I've also just become acquainted with the oh-so very versatile Mixer for FL - which F'ing rocks. Love to compress stuff and change it's dB etc.

However, I do have Audacity sitting on my desktop gathering dust, would that do pitch bends?

[HoboKa]

It'd be a bit easier for us to answer this question if you told us what you use.

FL Studio has a kind of note in the piano roll called a 'slide note.' But that isn't the only way..

I have seen the slide note feature, but have no idea how to use it, I can look that up though . Didn't realize that that can do pitch bends.

[Mia]

That's essentially -what- it does / is for. It can also slide volume and panning information. It doesn't seem to work with all generators, but the FL Soundfont player can handle it, as well as many synths I've used.

I've learned most of what I know about FL Studio from just using it over the years, but still a big chunk of extremely useful information has come from the one time I went to Help > Contents while using FL, and just browsed/read for the next hour. It is a quite thorough help documentation and has just about all the FL Studio knowledge there is, as far as I can tell.

EDIT: PS, chances are, yeah, you do sequence. Sequencing just means programming into some sort of computer or midi instrument a -sequence- of music to be played back / rendered. I.E.. beat making / remixing / what you do in FL Studio.

[HoboKa]

Right in that case I do sequence. Yeah I learn most of my stuff by experimenting...I'm a horrible visual learner, I learn best by DOING or having some1 over my shoulder helping me lol. ADHD is a bitch.

K I'll see if I can figure this slide stuff out with my SF generator.