Feature Request: Instant Portamento

Ideas & suggestions
1

I often get frustrated at the limitation of 05FF being not fast enough. I would like a glide that is, at fastest, instantaneous.

2

using ghost notes should help;

with:

00| C-4 01  
01| E-4

you should achieve an instant portamento from C-4 to E-4, without envelope retrig

3

Will that continue playing the sample from the last offset?

4

The envelopes won’t retrig, but the sample itself will retrig. This doesn’t work. I would, however, prefer that ghost notes don’t retrig the sample.

5

Wel yah… that’s what I was hoping for.

6

Maybe an option? There’s uses for sample retriggering too. Like if you control an evolving of a drum roll/sequence with filter envelope. For one example.

7

If you’re doing this to keep a sampled synth sounding “continuous”, you might want to synthesise the instrument yourself, manually, using DSP effects on some very basic sample that you may play in any way you like without artefacting.

e.g. let’s say you base everything on Instrument 1, let it be a sinewave.
Sample usage (i.e. no 5FF’s here, just simple):
C-5 01

E-5 01

G-5 01

And you want it 1) click-free 2) continuously evolving

For 1) add a lowpass to filter out those clicky frequencies (anything over 2Khz is pretty much “click-residue” if your base wave is a sine)

For 2) add your own mix of LFO-driven DSP’s: one of my favourite oldschool chains is:
-> DC offset, offset is LFO-driven ->
-> LFO ->
-> Hugely clipped distortion (makes your wave a pulse-modulated square-wave, essentially) ->
-> DC offset again, on auto this time ->
-> EQ with your choice of fatness

=SIDly goodness, especially if you’re an arp whore like me :)

8

Highpass with lowest possible cutoff setting works better than that ;)