Currently no but technically yes. The microcontroller I am using does not have enough resolution so while I can pitch bend you hear all the steps in frequency. All the instrument needs is a square wave at the frequency you want to produce so I am currently looking into / designing an improvement with external oscillators. Low notes slide better then high notes as you have more steps between notes.

@@DJthefirst sounds great! I wish you the best of success and I'm exited to hear how it turns out :)

portal 2s entire ost:

Can you better define "glide"? Each instrument has a limited range that can be played before the motors can't spin fast enough to hit the note or it sounds like clicking on the low end. A limitation of the software is each note is a value in a lookup table. So some parts of the song might have pitch bends removed as the in-between frequencies can't be played. I am looking into potential solutions for this but the 3-4$ microcontrollers driving multiple instruments at a time are not fast enough to play arbitrary frequencies.

@@DJthefirst by "glide" i mean the note transitions, yes, like starting in one pitch and ending in another without pause. perhaps making a step function solution in the instruments or interpolating notes in the midi could be a workaround, but there's lots of different dynamics to deal with in other songs other than just the glide and trebble and stuff, so idk much about it x.x

The soul is in the building and running of the mechanical part, at least that's how I feel as someone else who's incredibly passionate about electro-mechanical instruments