Wanted : Chord chart for augmented fourth / dimished fifth / Tritone / +6 , tuning

[EmDeBe]

Hi
i have been looking at the best tuning for the Linnstrument and would really like to try the Tritone tuning as it just seems to make the most sense to me , with my rather limited understanding of the Linnstrument .

Has anybody made a chart for fingerings of common chords and scales in the Tritone tuning , they are willing to share ?

Thanks
Malcolm

[BertKoor]

i have been looking at the best tuning for the Linnstrument and would really like to try the Tritone tuning as it just seems to make the most sense to me , with my rather limited understanding of the Linnstrument .

What's your reasoning, why does it make sense to you?
Do you have any other experience with regular string instruments?

Has anybody made a chart for fingerings of common chords and scales in the Tritone tuning , they are willing to share ?

Well, that is a big downside to such an odd tuninh: no resources.
There's plenty on tuning in fourths (eg guitar) and fifths (eg violin)

[EmDeBe]

i only have very rudimentary experience with guitar .
i was very much inspired by the video from MilesParker , which made a lot of sense to me from the discussion about perfect layout :

viewtopic.php?t=477082&start=90

[tapper mike]

I see you still have it laid out in perfect fourths. Perhaps you could focus on that rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.

I've got pdf files for linnstrument scale forms and primary chords here using the conventional 4ths layout of the linnstrument.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/7440663 ... iles/files

Otherwise I would suggest you familiarize yourself with something which can create tables and fill the cells appropriately. That way you could have your own reference point to draw from.

[tapper mike]

Also if you want the whole tone scale it's pretty easy to derive.

On the linnstrument using the initial layout all the lit "cells" represent the C major scale. The white light is C.
Therefore starting on C skip the unlight cell to the right and the next one will be D. Every other note will be the whole tone scale. And if you decide you want to stay more in position. Once you have played C,D,E move one half step up move one row up the note above C or further away from you will be F the note next to it on the right will be F# also known as Gb.

Other symmetrical scales such as the whole-half, half-whole and Diminished 5ths are pretty easy to achieve using a little bit of logic.

In the early days of the linnstrument we had some very talented 12tone chromaticism players appear in the Linnstrument Users Group on FB. They've all disappeared.

If you really want to explore microtonality. It's going to be a biatch. Simply due to targetting. That stuff needs to be set up first and it's under the Per Split Settings
https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/support ... l-settings

[EmDeBe]

I see you still have it laid out in perfect fourths. Perhaps you could focus on that rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.

I've got pdf files for linnstrument scale forms and primary chords here using the conventional 4ths layout of the linnstrument.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/7440663 ... iles/files

Otherwise I would suggest you familiarize yourself with something which can create tables and fill the cells appropriately. That way you could have your own reference point to draw from.

i don't have it laid out in fourths , i don't yet own a Linnstrument . but soon . i am just looking at how it can be tuned and possible advantages of tritone tuning . a chart for that would be helpful that's all . i can probably figure it out myself , and will , but it would be faster if someone already jotted down some shapes .

[tapper mike]

The linnstrument is natively laid out in fourths. As it shows on the image you presented. Every row starts off one fourth above the previous row. There is no way to alter this. It can only be transposed by octave across the enter split side, by half step or by transposing the layout to a key. You can add colors to specific notes or remove them for appearance sake but it does not affect the tuning.

Because of the tuning to perfect fourths you should be able to voice anything based on or within the chromatic scale.

[EmDeBe]

The linnstrument is natively laid out in fourths. As it shows on the image you presented. Every row starts off one fourth above the previous row. There is no way to alter this. It can only be transposed by octave across the enter split side, by half step or by transposing the layout to a key. You can add colors to specific notes or remove them for appearance sake but it does not affect the tuning.

Because of the tuning to perfect fourths you should be able to voice anything based on or within the chromatic scale.

the tuning ( pitch offset between the rows ) can be changed , see below from the manual :

"This setting determines the pitch offset between rows, like tuning the strings on a guitar. The default setting is +5, so that the leftmost pitch of each row is 5 semitones (a musical fourth interval) higher that the leftmost pitch of the row below it, just like the 4 lower strings of a guitar or a bass guitar. This tuning is called the Fourths String Layout and is the default tuning on LinnStrument.

There are 8 tunings options:

+3, +4, +5, +6 and +7
These set the Row Offset to 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 semitones."

[tapper mike]

Then go and be happy exploring your tunings.

Personally I think you are making it all needlessly hard for yourself. Perhaps you could print out a copy of your intended layout and try to explore chords and scales on the paper before the linnstrument arrives. Using fourths tuning it's pretty dang simple to move up one row and over another to perform a whole tone scale. Same with half whole and whole half scales

[Sonic Illusions]

You are not meaning the info from 'Charts & Diagrams' (Linnstrument's PDF file) regarded to dim and aug chords/arps, I suppose? Bit confuses here. I don't own LI btw

[Sonic Illusions]

You are not meaning the info from 'Charts & Diagrams' (Linnstrument's PDF file) regarded to dim and aug chords/arps, I suppose? Bit confused here. I don't own LI btw

[tapper mike]

You are not meaning the info from 'Charts & Diagrams' (Linnstrument's PDF file) regarded to dim and aug chords/arps, I suppose? Bit confused here. I don't own LI btw

Then the discussion is not for you.

There is a forum here dedicated to Roger Linn Design. RL regularly posts there and within that forum much of the discussion centers on one of his products "The Linnstrument"

[BertKoor]

There is a forum here dedicated to Roger Linn Design.

I did not know. A link would have been handy:
viewforum.php?f=263

[tapper mike]

Thanks Bert. My bad for not linking to it.