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Page 78 CD3000XL OperatorÕs Manual
PITCH BEND
The first page we encounter is the PITCH page where you may set the parameters associated
with pitch bend. As usual, you may select a program for editing at the top right hand of the
corner.
The pitch bend on the CD3000XL allows you to set a different range for bend up and down as
well as use pressure and a special mode is also available to make it more flexible. The
parameters are:
This sets the range for bending pitch up with the pitchbend wheel or
lever. The range is 0-24 semitones. The default is 2 semitones.
This sets the range for bending pitch down and, again, the range is 0-
24 semitones. The default is 2 semitones.
As well as using the pitchbend wheel or lever, you may also use
pressure to bend notes. The range is -12 to +12. You may only bend
up or down depending on the selection made - unlike the bend
wheel/lever, you cannot pitchbend both ways.
This is a mode select option that allows you to choose whether the
pitchbend will happen on all notes or only on held notes. This is
particularly useful on sounds with long releases. The options are
NORMAL and HELD.
Let us say, for example, that you have a sound that has a long release
and you are performing a solo that uses a lot of pitchbend. Using
NORMAL, when you pitchbend the note, all the notes currently in the
release stage of their envelope will also bend. Sometimes this is what
you want but there can be times when this spoils the effect you are
trying to create.
By selecting the HELD mode of pitchbend, ONLY THE KEY(S) YOU
ARE CURRENTLY HOLDING DOWN WILL BEND and all those notes
you are not playing but which are fading through their release stage
will remain unchanged. If you release your finger from the key with the
pitchbend up (or down), as the note dies away, if you let the pitchbend
return to zero, that last note’s pitch will not change. If you release just
one note of a chord with pitchbend up or down, if you let the wheel or
lever settle at zero, only the notes you are holding will bend.
The pitchbend options on the CD3000XL allow some very interesting performance
techniques. By setting the pitch to UP: 2 and DOWN:12, with a heavy metal guitar sample, you
can emulate string bending up and an octave ‘whammy bar dive bomb’ down. Many things are
possible.