A continuous glide from one note to another, like sliding your finger up a guitar string This is similar but different from a glissando, which plays discrete notes, like dragging your finger over the white keys of the keyboard The rumor is that Korg considered portamento to be an unneeded feature, so it was not designed into the 01
Portamento is where a note is allowed to 'slide' up or down in frequency from a previous note, rather than making an abrupt change This effect is difficult to apply effectively on a polyphonic device, but lends itself well to monophonic devices
the smooth movement in singing or playing a stringed instrument from one note to the next
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The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies
In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note to another; a gliding from tone to tone
Portamento creates a sliding effect by smoothly changing pitch from the last note played to the pitch of the currently playing note Use control change (CC) 65 to switch portamento on or off Use CC 5 to control how quickly the pitch transition takes place Use CC 84 to specify a starting note without actually playing the note Portamento is a channel message