I'd like to create a SoundFont where pitchbend is allowed for some notes but not others. Is that possible? I haven't seen a way (within a SoundFont) to prevent SoundFont players from applying pitchbend.
My reason for wanting to do this: I have a bagpipes SoundFont where the melody (chanter) notes need to have pitchbend, but I don't want any pitchbend applied to accompanying drones notes. On theory I should be able to send the drones notes over a different MIDI channel and only apply pitchbend to the melody channel, but most SoundFont players seem to apply pitchbend to all currently playing notes regardless of the channel of the notes and pitchbend messages (I believe this is actually contrary to the MIDI protocol).