• In music, portamento (plural: portamenti, from old Italian: portamento, meaning "carriage" or "carrying") is a pitch sliding from one note to another....
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  • Portamento is the second studio album by American indie pop band The Drums. The album was released in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2011 through Moshi...
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  • pop band the Drums, as the lead single from their second studio album, Portamento (2011). It was written and produced by frontman and vocalist Jonathan...
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  • the French glisser, "to glide". In some contexts, it is equivalent to portamento, which is a continuous, seamless glide between notes. In other contexts...
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  • alternative to continuous portamento for instruments which are not able to achieve that, or which have limitations in achieving portamento over multiple notes...
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  • "effects column" which allows the addition of effects such as arpeggio, portamento, vibrato and volume slides. Some control over the song structure can be...
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    and a common feature on old analogue systems was ‘Portamento’.[citation needed] After Portamento's world tour ended in late 2012, founding member Connor...
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  • create unnaturally rapid corrections in Cher's vocals, thereby removing portamento, the natural slide between pitches in singing. In an attempt to protect...
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    reduced use of portamento in recordings from 1931 to 1936, but in 1936 also notes that the VPO strings still make "conspicuous" use of portamento in Mozart...
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  • and may not necessarily require that the music be slurred. Glissando or Portamento A continuous, uninterrupted glide from one note to the next that includes...
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    female vocals, the extensive sampling of P-Funk tunes, and a high-pitched portamento saw wave synthesizer lead. Unlike other earlier rap acts that also utilized...
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    Screenshot of Audacity showing spectrograms of an audio clip with portamento (upper panel) and the same clip after applying pitch correction, showing frequencies...
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    should rarely be audible (unless the performer is consciously applying a portamento effect for expressive reasons). In the course of a shift in low positions...
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    simple additive voice. All voices may be shaped by 13 preset envelopes, portamento, and vibrato. It also includes a rudimentary sequence recorder, preset...
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    Gliding toward high tenor, plunging toward deep bass, the magisterial portamento of his onward-coursing baritone emits white-hot sparks and torrents of...
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    somewhat akin to playing a guitar with one finger (the bar). Known for its portamento capabilities, gliding smoothly over every pitch between notes, the instrument...
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    strings to alter the pitch. A player can use this to create a vibrato or a portamento effect. Early vibrato systems were often unreliable and made the guitar...
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    instruments — deciding whether to use expressive effects such as vibrato or portamento. For a singer or instrumental performer, the process of deciding how to...
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  • with vibrato. Such a legato style of playing can also be associated with portamento. In guitar playing (apart from classical guitar) legato is used interchangeably...
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    trill can be added to the arpeggiation. There are the two independent portamento rates for each VCO, whether locked together or in interval mode. This...
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    glotte Fach Falsetto Falsettone Head voice Legato Messa di voce Passaggio Portamento Sprechgesang Squillo Tessitura Timbre Vibrato Vocal range Vocal register...
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  • Jacob Graham as a duo. Prior to the release of the band's second album Portamento, it was announced that guitarist Adam Kessler had left The Drums and that...
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  • Ok Rock from Ambitions, 2017 "Hard to Love", a song by the Drums from Portamento, 2011 Hard Love (disambiguation) "Hard to Love You" a song by Dave Dee...
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  • towns in the United States with portmanteau names List of portmanteaus Portamento, in music, a continuous change in pitch (unrelated) This disambiguation...
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    recordings with other orchestras do not show this portamento, and that "the unusual approach to portamento... was a stylistic feature which he developed with...
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  • modules he created for her, including the touch-sensitive keyboard, a portamento control, a fixed filter bank, and a 49-oscillator polyphonic generator...
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  • that model. Touching a plate next to the rollers sends portamento by default (this portamento strip is not on the EWI USB). EWIs also have pitch bend...
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    accurately fast passages and large note leaps without the more familiar portamento, or glide, on theremin. She also discovered that she could achieve a steadier...
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    range. The long, hollow neck design of these Indian instruments allows portamento effects and legato ornaments found in Indian ragas. It has been a popular...
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  • effect blocks (cc#91-94), entering additional parameters (cc#98-101), portamento, sostenuto, soft pedal (cc#65-67), and model-specific SysEx messages for...
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