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I'm not getting all of my email messages (isp/virus problem), so I didn't see the other responses. Some comments: asterion@hell.com wrote: > At 11:43 AM -0800 2/7/04, S V G wrote: > >> The EMU line of sound modules does provide good user definable tuning >> tables IF you know what you're looking for. Kurzweil provides a >> different kind of tuning table, a bit easier to get around on, though >> octaves are automatically set to be in tune with each other. > > > Different manufacturers approach tuning in different ways, most of > which are limited. Aside from resolution issues are matters of whether > an instrument offers full keyboard tuning (each key separately > tuneable, not just repeating octave patterns) and whether a full > keyboard tuning permits a full range of tuning per key (some > instruments restrict the tuning to a small range above and below the > nominal pitch of the key). I have a Proteus/2 and AFAIK all of later EMU synths are still based on the same technology. Yes you can tune each key/note, but the tuning resolution isn't very good. It's too bad, a fine sounding synth. > > Some Korg instruments seem better than most. Very nice for tuning. I have a 05R/W that I've had for years that I'm using to write a string qt. I also have a MS2000R that sounds amazing, except since it's an analog modeling synth, they made it 4 voice! >On Feb 6, 2004, at 2:26 PM, asterion@hell.com wrote: >> At 1:12 PM +0000 2/6/04, goddard.duncan@mtvne.com wrote: >> >> i personally am not interested in using non-diatonic-based tunings >> >> Please be aware that "diatonic" has no particular relationship to >> "tuning." >> >> A diatonic scale is simply a set of seven pitches spanning an octave >> and corresponding to the white keys on a piano (i.e. a pattern of >> semitones 2-2-1-2-2-2-1). You can start the scale pattern on any of >> its notes and you can transpose the scale to any of the 12 chronatic >> tones. The tuning of the pitches themselves is arbitrary. Therefore >> you can have diatonic scales in a variety of tunings, though most of >> the time when people say "diatonic" they imply "twelve-tone >> equal-tempered" tuning. Diatonic refers to a major scale/harmony. Suit and Tie Guy wrote: >i guess in my original response to someone's response to my response to >someone's post, i should have further clarified by qualified "diatonic" >with "western diatonic", or "plucked string overtone derived diatonic >tuning/harmony systems". both of which imply a equal-tempered, >well-tempered, just, pothagoryan, or other (say, Werckmeister) classic >European tuning system. You've got it backwards: just intonation and pythagorean tuning systems are from the naturally ocuring harmonic series, the others are adjustments to it so that there can be harmonic movement and modulation. > plucked string overtone derived The harmonic series. >i do believe there is a significant amount of _consonant_ musical >exploration to be had in non-equal tuning systems. Me too. > >next time i host/play a Robert Rich show i should talk his ear off >about _that_. When I met him at NAMM two years ago and later opened for him at the NYC Knitting Factory, we barely talked about it. BTW: here's a link to a tuning dictonary <http://tonalsoft.com/enc/index.htm> -- * David Beardsley * microtonal guitar * http://biink.com/db