portamento

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If Keyboard Mode is set to Poly or Mono, and Glide is set to a value other than 0, portamento is active.

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  1. noun A smooth uninterrupted glide in passing from one tone to another, especially with the voice or a bowed stringed instrument.

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  • His lyricism is most human, while the portamento, the slides, trills and indescribably subtle turns—are they not of the violin? —  Chopin: The Man and His Music
  • There's a small amount of portamento synth abuse here, but considering the effectiveness of the piece otherwise, I really don't feel compelled to gripe about it. —  10 Latest OverClocked ReMixes
  • Bow position control (sul tasto and sul ponticelli), up and down bowing, realistic legato and portamento, body / sympathetic resonance behavior modeling, adjustable noise (bow, pluck and snap noise) and controllable loose / tight articulations are also included. —  KVR News: Top Stories
  • As long as you don't release the key of the previously struck note before clicking a new key, you'll hear the glide or portamento. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • I don't know about logic pro, but in some synths there are several portamento settings, where you can get the glide even if you play stocatto, or else the glide works only for legato, or else it works only going up, or going down, or whatever. —  Discussions: Message List - root
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  1. Italian, from portare, to carry, from Latin portāre; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Italian (later Portuguese portamento), carriage, from Middle Latin portamentum, carrying, carriage, action, from Latin portare, carry: see port.
 

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/poʊrtɑˈmɛntoʊ/
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