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Support for Glissando?

jamietopoljamietopol
in General App Discussion

I am looking for any iOS synths that can support glissando. Glissando is similar to portamento, except it plays the semi-tones between two notes instead of a "smooth," continuous tonal glide between the two notes.
Listen to the song "Turn Me Loose" - there is a glissando at the 13 second mark.
Right now, I can't find any iOS synths that support this.
Alternatively, perhaps there is a MIDI utility app that can be used in combination with a synth to achieve the glissando effect.
Any suggestions???

Comments

  • jamietopoljamietopol

    I found one: KQ Dixie has a glissando function!

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @jamietopol said:
    I found one: KQ Dixie has a glissando function!

    Nice find, would be cool if more synths or instruments supported that. A midi utility like a Mozaic script would be handy for sure if there isn't one.

  • bleepbleep

    I remember seeing glissando mentioned in at least one of the Sugar Bytes apps, I believe it was Factory.

  • bleepbleep

    Yes, see Glide in paragraph Pitch Factory in the manual. There is a staircase symbol for turning on glissando.

  • tyslothrop1tyslothrop1

    BA-1 has glissando.

  • jamietopoljamietopol

    @bleep said:
    Yes, see Glide in paragraph Pitch Factory in the manual. There is a staircase symbol for turning on glissando.

    Thanks - I"ll download that and give it a try.

  • jamietopoljamietopol

    @tyslothrop1 said:
    BA-1 has glissando.

    This is a really good option to recreate the opening of Turn Me Loose because I think the band used one of the Yamaha CS synths (Yamaha CS-50?) in the original song. Thanks for the suggestion.

  • wimwim
    edited December 2025

    A Mozaic script might be appropriate for this. I'm curious how it would be expected to work.

    • A knob would set the glissando time. What would the time set?

      • A constant time to slide to the next note, irregardless of interval, meaning a jump of 24 notes would take the same time as a jump of 3 notes, with the intervening notes jammed in to that interval?
      • A constant time between semitones, meaning a jump of 24 notes would take twice as long as a jump of 12 notes?

    • What happens if another note is played before the glissando completes? Interrupt the glissando? Continue it to the end and start another glissando pair?

    • What happens if more than two notes are played, for instance a chord?
    • Does a glissando happen only if a note is held down and another is played while it's held down?
    • Or, would it work in "pairs" - hit one note, then glissando to the next note whether the original is held down or not.
    • Probably many other questions I haven't thought of yet.

    I'm also very curious why this is preferable to simply sliding a finger along a keyboard?

  • jamietopoljamietopol

    @wim said:

    I'm also very curious why this is preferable to simply sliding a finger along a keyboard?

    It is difficult to hit the black and white keys unless you are using something with a very shallow key depth like the XKey.

  • wimwim
    edited December 2025

    I see @jamietopol - thanks. I was only thinking about on-screen keyboards.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @wim said:
    A Mozaic script might be appropriate for this. I'm curious how it would be expected to work.

    • A knob would set the glissando time. What would the time set?

      • A constant time to slide to the next note, irregardless of interval, meaning a jump of 24 notes would take the same time as a jump of 3 notes, with the intervening notes jammed in to that interval?
      • A constant time between semitones, meaning a jump of 24 notes would take twice as long as a jump of 12 notes?

    • What happens if another note is played before the glissando completes? Interrupt the glissando? Continue it to the end and start another glissando pair?

    • What happens if more than two notes are played, for instance a chord?
    • Does a glissando happen only if a note is held down and another is played while it's held down?
    • Or, would it work in "pairs" - hit one note, then glissando to the next note whether the original is held down or not.
    • Probably many other questions I haven't thought of yet.

    I'm also very curious why this is preferable to simply sliding a finger along a keyboard?

    I thought the same, but when I played around with it in KQ Dixie, I also realized that, apart from being useful for midi keyboards with heavier keys, it also has a pleasing 'electronic music' regularity to it that you might want sometimes.

  • egobeatsegobeats
    edited December 2025

    Electric Vintage by apesoft. I think all of apesofts apps have a glissverb asset.

    Also saw this tip for creating a gliss in any synth:

    Turn on the "Glide" or "Portamento" button and adjust the "Time" or "Rate" to control how long the slide takes to create a glissando effect.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @egobeats said:
    Electric Vintage by apesoft. I think all of apesofts apps have a glissverb asset.

    Also saw this tip for creating a gliss in any synth:

    Turn on the "Glide" or "Portamento" button and adjust the "Time" or "Rate" to control how long the slide takes to create a glissando effect.

    This is not really true unfortunately. The problem is that most synths just do pure glides. Very few do the stepping effect which the OP described in his first post

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