Pitch wheel playing technique

Chisel · Post by **Chisel** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:19 am

Anybody here know of any online resources that cover analog synth pitch wheel techniques?

Chisel · Post by **Chisel** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:46 am

I found it!

http://www.keyboardmag.com/story.asp?se ... code=11649

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:45 pm

for me I just converted basic techniques from guitar playing.. and a bit of trombone. Okay I lived with a friend who played trombone, and we played a bit of guitar together. They all pretty much work under the same principles tho. It's all in the relationship between the start and end of note, and start and end of the bend, and also maybe how much bend you apply.

Once I got into doing rapid bends with a korg style (joystick) bender, and broke it because I swung it back and forth waay too much. The rapid bend, or actually severe vibrato worked really well with guitars. But synth gutiars sucked anyway, so I did away with playing guitars on the synth all together. (for most times, anyway)

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paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:28 am

The trick with synth guitars is to start your bend from below the note you're going to. I know, it's just a compromise but it's better than the other way around.

Post by **hubird** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:22 am

wasn't (all) this extremely obvious?
no offend, but...

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marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:22 pm

duh....

Post by **hubird** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:02 pm

I'm not a guitar player at all, but if you need to bend up, you'll want to end at zero position to be able to play along in tune...after one wrong try you'll get that.
it's the same when playing typical synth lines, you'll meet the same thing.
Ah well, maybe I'm just not preoccupied by the usual guitar technic, where you just (have to) take a lower note and then bend it up

Sorry, found it just amusing, it's great there's an elegant solution for the keyboard, I bet a guitarist would like to have that possibility too

good exercising Chisel

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darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:13 pm

Get a MIDI guitar

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:42 pm

My point was about getting the best tone from your guitar samples. If you bend up from point zero to the max(assuming you're bending to one whole tone) the sample sounds more screechy and the vibrato unnatural. Bending from -one tone to zero point makes more sense sonically. These observations are based on my work with the lousy guitar sounds on the Roland SoundCanvas(SC-50) but seem to apply to sampled guitars as well.

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