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Re: Looking for pointers on portamento

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commodorejohn wrote:

> There seems to be surprisingly little written on the subject out
> there; I've been figuring that I might simply have to go digging
> through the source for someone else's replay routine, but I'd rather
> avoid that if possible. Does anybody have advice to offer here? Thanks
> in advance.

I can't advise on what's the "right" way to do this, but two suggestions:

Try it and see if non-linear portamento sounds any different (or any better) 
than linear.

Consider a physical model.  I'd have thought that the movements a musician 
makes as s/he slides from one note to another would probably be /fairly/ 
linear, and that the resulting frequencies would be non-linear only because the 
relation between "position" (whatever that means in context) and frequency 
would be non-linear.  Of course my assumptions may be wrong (I'm no musician), 
but my point is to consider /some/ physical model as guide to what's "right".

    -- chris 

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Looking for pointers on portamento commodorejohn <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 13:38 -0700
  Re: Looking for pointers on portamento "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-03-16 09:01 +0000

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