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pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com wrote: > Let me try to articulate what i want to do here... I am a former Stick > owner (sold all my musical instruments in CA before the big move to FL) >who Sounds insane! One could always fret a stick in ji. > If I just wanted to stay at home and never play out, a software synth >would > be perfect for me. However, I do want to play out (and I really do mean > PLAY as in play "realtime", not run some non-interactive program or play >a > tape). and I have new friends who are encouraging me to work towards that > goal. There is no way I'm going to lug my PC, 17-inch monitor, keyboard, > etc. to bars and coffee shops to play music. Last Saturday I heard a friend play an entire show on a laptop. I think he uses MAX. But he's not into tunings. > I was hoping somebody would tell me that samplers exist that would allow >me > to set up tunings with scale resolutions small enough to handle JI. >Then I > could just get that sampler instead of getting another computer. One could always sample tuned instruments. It IS a sampler. > > Well, my disappointment in the fact that all responses to this thread > indicate the need for computer to be included in my hypothetical live rig No you don't. It's just a possibility. > >a fretless guitar or a midi guitar & synth or a refretted > >guitar or Csound seems to be your best option. I want > >a fretless guitar next. > > I appreciate the time you've taken to respond to my inquiries. However, > Csound is not realtime and I am not really a guitar player. I am more >of a > tapping type of player (piano, Stick, Ztar, etc.). Also, I am interested > in exploring _harmony_ in JI, not so much melody. Fretless guitar is not > the optimal solution here (it took Adrian Belew two years of practice to > play chords in tune - so he says). It's all in the ear. So it took Belew 2 years to tune up his hearing. Big deal. You act like becoming a better musican is an undesirable thing! Maybe your approach could be a bit less negative? -- * D a v i d B e a r d s l e y * xouoxno@virtulink.com * * 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time" * M E L A v i r t u a l d r e a m house monitor * * http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm