Topic: Using pedals for generating true glissando/portamento?
I am interested in playing Indian Classical Music on Piano. One of the limitations of Piano is that it one cannot play true glissando or portamento on it. There are several ornaments in Indian Classical Music - Meend, Gamak, Kan etc. that require a smooth transition from one note to another. Here is an excellent brief commentary on these: https://soundcloud.com/anand-nande-1/me...hataka-etc .
I would like to be able to use Pianoteq to play true glissando or portamento.
I recently noticed that Pianoteq responds to the Pitch bend wheel - and creates smooth transition from one note to another. So, it appears technologically capable or creating true glissando/portamento with Piano sound - this is very exciting! Using pitch bend wheel has some limitations though: it only goes one full note/2 semi notes above or beyond the current note and it is not the most practical way to do this as one has to move one hand from the Piano and back.
A more practical way of doing pitch bend would be to use one of the pedals. For examples:
With Una Corda pedal down, if one plays C and D - then the should should be "Note C (with hammer attack) gliding up to D (no hammer attack for D).
With Una Corda pedal down, if one plays C and G - then the should should be "Note C (with hammer attack) gliding up to G (no hammer attack for G).
With Una Corda pedal down, if one plays C, D and E - then the sound should "Note C (with hammer attack) gliding up to D (no hammer attack for D) . Note D (with hammer attack) gliding up to Note E (no hammer attack for E)
This would enable one to play like the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMZIsZ5prKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_zewj8EOjc
But on actual Piano keys (instead of finger sliding on a flat surface).
Is this possible to do in Pianoteq? I would happily pay for "Ultra Pro" license if this can be done - I think there are others out there who would be very interested in such capability as well.
One way of doing this might be with some program that takes in Midi data, modifies it and sends it to Pianoteq. Such a program can convert the Una corda pedal down with midi notes in the input to Output that has notes with pitch bend events (and removing pedal down events). Assuming Pianoteq supports pitch bends in Midi wider than 1 full note - this might work. However, this will require that such midi modification program has to be extremely light weight to minimize latency/delay.
Osho
