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Aroused by JarJar · Post by **Aroused by JarJar** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:16 am

Does DirectWave support microtuning?

thank you

reflex · Post by **reflex** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:00 am

You can tune any zone in cents, if that's what you mean.

Aroused by JarJar · Post by **Aroused by JarJar** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:17 am

reflex wrote:You can tune any zone in cents, if that's what you mean.

So a zone could be a single key (note number) and you can tune that up or down to +/- 100 cents? If that detuning is MIDI controllable, or internally defined in terms of MIDI, then the actual tuning resolution would probably be 1.56 cents IIRC, same as my old Ensoniq EPS, or maybe half that as has been done in custom OSs for the Mirage etc (128 steps per 100 cents).

If the tuning of each zone is not limited to +/- 100 cents, that would make the sampler truly microtunable.

I can live with either, especially considering the "incredibly low price" but would much rather have tuning tables like a number of other software synthesizers, and best of all direct import of Scala tuning and keyboard mapping files. Of course I understand the potential mapping nightmares that could arise in heavily multisampled libraries designed for 12-tET but I think it is important to have the option for users, not least because of the fact that most of the people of the world do not use 12-tone equal temperament in their traditional musics (nor does real live Western orchestral music for that matter). Even in the modern Western world some people want to make actual music, not theatrical cartoon representations of music. Not everyone's soul can be snapped to a late-19th-century Austro-Hungarian frequency grid.

anyway thanks, have to see if the demo runs on my computer (kinda of difficult since it doesn't seem to import any patches or samples...)

take care,

Cameron Bobro

(no I'm not actually aroused by Jar Jar Binks. Really. I swear.

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reflex · Post by **reflex** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:27 am

The range is -1200 to +1200 cents.

Aroused by JarJar · Post by **Aroused by JarJar** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:09 pm

reflex wrote:The range is -1200 to +1200 cents.

Assuming a zone can be a single key, that's microtuning with up 36 tones
per octave and +/- .5 cent accuracy.

Rottweiler · Post by **Rottweiler** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:06 pm

Aroused by JarJar wrote:
reflex wrote:You can tune any zone in cents, if that's what you mean.
Not everyone's soul can be snapped to a late-19th-century Austro-Hungarian frequency grid.

whats the problem with hungarian folk songs?

BTW if you can help me out understanding the whole microtuning stuff i would appreciate it