Hey there, hope you're doing great.
I'm wondering how I can receive MIDI Pitch Wheel / Pitch Bend messages.
I wired up a Receive MIDI Events node. I hooked up all available outputs (receivedNote, receivedController) to a console message via Get MIDI (Note, Controller) Values nodes, text appending along the way so I can see what I'm getting. I see the Note messages output fine, and I see the Controller messages output fine, but I do not see the Pitch Wheel messages.
I started up a freeware app called MIDI Monitor, and I see the Pitch Wheel messages there. If I remember properly from the MIDI spec, Pitch Wheel is sent as a combination of two adjacent controllers, course and fine.
Is there anything I can do in Vuo to receive the pitch bend messages? Failing that, can you think of any way external to Vuo that I could somehow transform them into something Vuo recognizes?
Appreciate your input.
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Hi, @eyezeeu! Sorry I've
Hi, eyezeeu! Sorry I've been slow to respond.
You're correct that MIDI Pitch Wheel messages consist of coarse and fine 7-bit parts, but they are not encoded as Custom Controller messages; they are their own event class. Vuo doesn't yet support the Pitch Wheel event class, but it's on our to-do list.
In the meantime, you can use the MidiPipe freeware app to convert:
receivedController
portIn Vuo 1.0.0, we added MIDI
In Vuo 1.0.0, we added MIDI Pitch Bend support — Vuo now can natively send and receive those messages. We also added a Pitch Bend port to the
Convert Note to Frequency
node, to facilitate using it for audio synthesis.