other temperaments

[Guest môak]

hello there

 

i want to explore more of the other temperaments, fuck this 12 tone shit, i want to do stuff in Harry Partch's 43-tone scale, in 19 equal temperament, etc etc

 

how can i do this? say with ableton? if possible?

 

the only method i can think of is manually creating like a waveform in soundforge like a triangle with a whole octave in the 19temperament in cent values; 19 temperament; A=0 , A♯= 63 , B♭=126, B=189, etc

 

then sampling each note to a 'sampler', but this seems bullshit/fake

 

anyone know how to work out this African American?

[Guest ۞ Syntheme ۞]

i usually do it by adding or subtracting to the base midi note using pitch bend (range set to +-50cents).

 

I also have used my pad control set up so that it sends out different pitch bend amounts for each pad. This gives you a predictable result, but generally, I prefer to do it freehand with the pitch bend knob.

 

Scales have been standardised so to make easy for one musician to play another's music.

If you're not bothered about that, you can use whatever pitch you like!

 

 

there will probably be some vstis with microtuning abilities you could use somehow

[Guest ۞ Syntheme ۞]

http://www.kvraudio.com/news/7339.html

 

only has up to 24 note scales though

[pylonbitch]

you can microtune in reaktor.

[hma]

try MicroTuner

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

[Guest môak]

http://www.wendycarlos.com/resources/pitch.html

 

found this

 

Between 10-40 equal steps per octave only three divisions exist which are amazingly more consonant than any other values around the, like lush tropical islands scattered in a great ocean of uniform chaos. I call them Alpha ('alpha'),

[Bubba69]

http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/

 

scala is a tuning format that some synths can load. In fact I think there is a synth called Abakos that can do it. Theres a free version but it might not load the .tun files. I might be mixing things up here a lot but there are synths that do it out there. I think ZynSubAddFx does it too.

[Guest tv_party]

linplug octopus

 

just noticed it's got 2 of the wendy carlos scales in the microtuning section.

[kcinsu]

absynth lets you alter tuning.