Pitch wheel
Introduction The Minimoog was the first synthesizer to feature a pitch wheel, visible at the left of the keyboard.In electronic music, a '''pitch wheel''', '''pitch bend''' or '''bender''' is a control on a synthesizer to vary the pitch in a continuously variable manner (portamento).The first synthesizer with a pitch wheel was the Minimoog, in 1970.Alternatively, pitch bend controllers on synthesizers may be implemented as a joystick, knob, or touch-sensitive ribbon.MIDI represents pitch bend as a 14-bit integer, allowing for 16,384 possible values. General MIDI implementations default to a range of ±2 semitones.
See also *Glissando
References
External links * Pitch Bend Wheel , at Dailyanalog