When using soundfonts with instruments that have a significant transient such as piano, organ, strings, etc., is there a way to remove all transients (except the first note) so that, by scrolling "pitch" box number up and down, you hear a single continuous glissando?

Thanks,
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dis2con.pd

@atux said:

is there a way to remove all transients (except the first note) so that, by scrolling "pitch" box number up and down, you hear a single continuous glissando?

The typical way that MIDI synths support this is by setting it to mono mode and using "legato glide" or "fingered portamento."

I'm not sure if sfont~ supports that usage. If not, you're out of luck -- bc the only way for this to work is if the instrument can distinguish between a note-on message that should reattack and one that should glide. If the instrument's code doesn't make this distinction, then no amount of MIDI note mangling will make a difference.

Or you could try setting a wide pitch bend range, but that usually sounds pretty silly with samples. (It would be nice if samplers could crossfade between different key ranges when pitch bending, but I've never seen any sampler do that, not even Kontakt. Maybe they added that feature? I don't use samplers often enough to keep up with the very latest developments.)

hjh

@atux I refer you to this thread
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14831/soundfont2-sf2-preset-reader/20
and the second last post where I uploaded sf2-toy.zip.
Mod-Env-Pitch(7) slider allows pitch change of the playing notes
you may need to extend release times and shorten the other envelope parameters.
however I had omitted some files, so here it is again with all the bits
toy.zip