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micro tunnig midi device ( chinese, japanese, indian, arabian ...... tune )

Doesn't look like too many people are interested in microtuning. I for one would give anything for a device that would make my synths in cw microtunable.
Hope someone will grant this wish.

So, tell more. What kind of interface would you like more specifically? I'd be intrested in something like this too, so I might try to hack something together. I might try something simple at first (say map 4 octaves to a single octave, maybe a 2/4/6/8 switch) and build it into something more flexible, where you can tune each midi note to whatever you want it to (with presets for standard indian/arabic/etc.)

So, throw all your ideas here please ^_^

A good thing, in my opinion, is to have a kind of dynamic matrix. Something like 2*n, where n is the number of intervals of the scale.
n is user configurable (by a knob, a slider or a number field).

See this schematic view:


-------------------------------------....---
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |....|n|
|1.000|1.010|1.023|1.321|1.540|1.103|....|2|
-------------------------------------....---
^ ^ ^
| | |
Foundamental Lower! +1 Oct


In this way you can make scales of a different number of step within the octave
(in comparison to the standard 12 steps).

In the second line you put the factor of multiplication of the foundamental (2 is the upper octave)

Notice that it's possible to make decreasing scale if each factor are lower than the previous.

It's also possible to make strange and bizarre scales, the only thing is to put strange values...
(i imagine a scale that firstly decrease and then raise...)

At least 3 decimals are required in my opinion, to have the necessary precision at high frequences.

Next versions could have some cool features like these 2:
- The first is to make a button that activate a kind of auto-transpose. So when the button is in on the device will automatically transpose the scale up and down, permitting to cover the entire field of udible frequences. (in this case the last step doesn't be 2, otherwise there are 2 identical note in 2 contiguous places)

When the button is turned off, the scale works only for the setted range in the matrix; the pattern is copied in the upper and in the lower octaves. If, for eg., you play the note after the last in the matrix, the first of the matrix plays.

This could seems unuseful, but i think it's very useful if you want that an instument playes only in a selected range.

- The second is to make a kind of "finetune randomizer", that minimally change the pitch in realtime, reproducing either the beautiful "pich tuning throubles" of the vintage analog synthesizers and the natural performance of acoustic instruments (like the fretless bass, the strings like violin, viola etc...)

Finally I hope to be understandable, (my englih isn't very nice), otherwise tell me what you don't uderstand.

oops... To understand the schematic view, copy it in the notepad and use a NON true type font!

Sorry...

Great input, thanks! I'm going to quote the schematic with

I miss microtuning as well, if someone could make some kind of " wrapper " for Scala or Tun files and such ...

Also check out this old thread on Hermode Tuning.

Mr A


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Mr Arkadin on 2004-12-04 13:09 ]</font>

http://www.samchillian.com/aboutsam.html
maybe this weird freeware app can help some folks on the way... watch the demo on the page

Basically what i would prefer is to be able to tune each note of the scale by 100 cents and not squish or expand the scale over the octaves. c3 to c4 should still be an octave apart c5-c6 etc. I don't know how else to explain it.
Here is something that i think would be easy to understand ' in the sts**** the microtune is perfect exept that it only allows +-25 cents it would be preferable to be +-100 cents.
also when adjusting the scale it should affect all octaves.
hope I to see something in the future for cw.

I agree with Johannis. That way would be the most useful to me too. To be able to raise/lower by 100cents each chromatic tone in the octave and that difference to be mapped into each octave.

Furthermore, it would be super-cool to be able to change the tunning with a press of a button that would be midi-controllable.

For example, you have button A pressed and you get (your previously defined scale):
D, E-48cents, F, G, A, B-48cents, C, D (which is the "husseyini" scale)
you press button B and you get:
D, E-48cents, F, Gb+12cents, A, Bb, C, Db+12cents (which is the "sabah" scale)

Check out the micro tuner plugin here loads scala files

http://www.tobybear.de/p_midibag.html

Maybe I'm mistaken , but an octave has 1200 cent together right?
If you'd go 100 cent + or minus , it's the same as chromaticly go one up or down.
I think 50 cent ( hey were did I hear that before) , should be enough to cover all tones.

It's not that I can create this device , but I will have a try soon.

cheers,
Casper

Aaah, you guys just need a fretless synth

On 2005-08-12 06:48, Casper wrote:
Maybe I'm mistaken , but an octave has 1200 cent together right?
If you'd go 100 cent + or minus , it's the same as chromaticly go one up or down.
I think 50 cent ( hey were did I hear that before) , should be enough to cover all tones.

It's not that I can create this device , but I will have a try soon.

cheers,
Casper

Yes but I might want to pitch something to +/- 65 or +/- 90 So I would rather have this option than only 50+/-.

But if something is created with only +/-50 I would very happy never the less

Johannis