Mapped Harp Glissandis & Arpeggios

Hello everyone,

I’m thinking about switching from Camelot Pro to Gig Performer, but it seems that an important feature is missing for me:

Is there a way to create harp glissandos/arpeggios in Gig Performer? What I want is to be able to press the D2 key, for example, and then play a glissando whose length, notes, etc. I can determine.

I work in musical theater and would use GigPerformer in the orchestra pit.

Here are examples of the kind of glissando/Arpeggio I would like to create in the sheet music:

Thank you in advance,

Stefan

Hi @MAPMusic ,

welcome to the family :wink:

What feature in Camelot Pro does support such a glissando?
In Gig Performer you can use scaled widget curves, also stepped values.
This way when you use the pitch bend and map it to a widget with such a scaled curve then you can play a note and with the pitch bend it is pitched in steps.

There are quite a few free harp glissando plugins out there. That said, this would be a fun little project to implement in a scriptlet using SendNow and SendLater

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Hey,

thank you for the welcome and your answer. In Camelot you can use the note to chord feature and set the strumming time. So it will instead play all notes off the chord at once play the notes “note by note” in the speed you wanted it.

OK, but that is not the glissando you described.

Thats Right but its helpful for the harp arpeggios as seen in the 2nd example

The old plugin MidiChords has a strum feature that works for that purpose. It’s free.

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If only MidiChords worked on Apple Silicon…

X

I know, legacy plugin. :frowning:
Another free one I know of is Window-only also.

OK - here’s a pretty trivial scriptlet that implements glissando - just play a note and let it rip

Glissando.gpp_internal (2.0 KB)

You can control the delay between notes, the duration of each note, and how many notes should be played.

Just download the preset and drag it into a rackspace. Then connect it to whatever instrument with which you want to use it.

For my test, I just used Kontakt with a basic Harp instrument

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Here’s an improved version that supports both chromatic and major scale

Glissando.gpp_internal (3.8 KB)

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bluearp works on macos I use it for mainly who tracks eg baba oriley etc, I store different instances and trigger then from a lower key on the keyboard.

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@dhj

I tried to modify this scriptlet, but I can’t manage it.

I want to fix the note duration. That is, the Note Off command should be sent after a configurable time, regardless of how long I’ve held down the keyboard key.

New Edit:

Wait a bit. I’ll take a look at the old Logic sets, since I’ve used MIDI effects on some songs that Logic already had built-in (see photo). Perhaps there’s an onboard solution in GP, ​​or maybe a scriptlet could be created that meets my requirements.