title: Sending pitch bend to MIDI sequencer in Java
body: <p>I understand the basics of getting a MIDI sequencer up and running and I would like to be able to increase/decrease the pitch of the sequence during playback, but pitch bend is a message that gets sent to the synthesizer, not the sequencer.</p>
  
  <p>I tried setting the sequencer's receiver to be the synthesizer's transmitter, and when I sent pitch-bend short messages, the sequencer stayed the same pitch but then the synthesizer played a second track at the new pitch bend value, creating some pretty awful-sounding music.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a good way of bending pitch during playback like there is for changing tempo?</p>
  
  <p>Another option (which seems like a big kluge) is to have a few versions of the MIDI files in different keys ready to load when called.</p>