Audio examples of 'artifacts' or 'zippering'?

[Amos]

- so a full sweep at full 14 bit would take 393216/31250 = 12.583 sec

with MIDI running status enabled this perfect bend would only take 8.39sec
but of course there is data reduction happening in the real world... the challenge is to take the amount of data that is really flowing, and generate a nice and smooth pitch bend event from it.

Can anyone comment on the relative smoothness of a Voyager pitch-bend when the Voyager is controlled via MIDI from a Little Phatty? The LP sends 14-bit MIDI pitch bend with about 1ms between messages, so it should be among the better controllers for this purpose, I think.

[gianluca13_2]

Thank you Amos.

Happy to hear I’m not alone in this battle.

Amos: -gianluca, before your calculations did you confirm that the pitch wheel is calibrated to return to zero?

Yes I verified the Voyager return to zero is calibrated but what we can see with this procedure is just the most significant byte of pitch wheel. In my case this report a zero position but investigating with MIDIOX I see also an message by the pitch wheel witch never return exactly at zero. I’m talking of little differences visible in the less significant byte, This lead to little out of tune more evident in more high octave hearable as a rapid beating respect others tones. I agree with Till probably in a recording session with many instruments this is not evident but when you record a minimal session with two three instruments very quiet this is not only evident but very irritating.