ceiling Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 I'm trying to get a gamelan tuning similar to this song on logic? I think it might be a bit of a western take on gamelan tuning but I'm not entirely sure. I know you can manually tune each key on logic and I was hoping someone might have a clue about what ...Hz I should assign to each key. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLLhdFAmNMs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TubularCorporation Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 I played Balinese gamelan pretty seriously for a few years, actually. The absolute pitches vary from village to village, this paper from Cornell looks like it has some good information about common temperments for pelog and slendro, which are the two most common scales. This also looks like an interesting collection of info on adapting Indonesian scales to Western music. It's aimed at guitarists but should be useful. Probably the most important thing to remeber is that the instruments in a gamelan are gendered, and the male and female instruments of any given type are played in unison. They are detuned about 6 cents (if I remember correctly) from each other, and the beating between the male and female is meant to induce a trance state. If you want to make gamelan-like sounds, this detuning is probably more important than the way the scales are tempered. You could also grab the audio from this and use a tuner to figure out the exact pitches: I don't really know much about slendro myself, everything I ever played was tuned to pelog selesir (one of the 5 note subsets of the 7 note pelog scale). This is probably my favorite example of pelog adapted to western insturments: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TubularCorporation Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Page 97 of the Cornell PDF I linked in the last post has what you're after. Pelog: D3-26 Fb3-10 F3-45 G3+24 G#3+43 A3+43 B3+35 Slendro: D3+28 F3-35 G3+17 A3+40 C4-10 Play these on a patch that has two voices i unison detuned between 5 and 6 cents from one another and you're good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceiling Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 So is that -26 cents on D3 and so on? What does that translate into HZ though? If A3 is 220hz am I just adding 43 to that? Thanks for the help man, having a read through that PDF now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TubularCorporation Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 So is that -26 cents on D3 and so on? What does that translate into HZ though? If A3 is 220hz am I just adding 43 to that? Thanks for the help man, having a read through that PDF now. That's what it looks like to me. I wrote out a whole formula I just came up with that might even have been right, but then I found this: http://www.flutopedia.com/pitch_to_frequency.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TubularCorporation Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 This looks like a solid starting point for learning more about the overall structure of Bainese gamelan music; I'm pretty rusty. http://www.gamelan-bali.eu This part in particular: http://www.gamelan-bali.eu/embellishment.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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