source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:39:46 -0800 Subject: Re:Proteus Tuning From: Flynn Cohen the Proteus E-MU Master Performance System Synthesizers we have at my college have the very unfortunate disadvantage of tunability to only 64-divisions-per-semitone. This basically means that I have to calculate my 'cents' approximations of whole-number ratios to even more compromised figures --e.g., the ratio of 7/4 can be represented as 969 cents, or 31 cents flat of a theoretical tempered minor seventh; the proteus will then read that discrepancy as 20/64ths of a semitone, etc. This process is utterly tedious, as well as being insufficient in terms of deriving natural intervals (i.e., I am forced to tune by maths, rather than by ear). Do the Proteus' that you lot are using really tune in cents? How recent is your equipment? etc., etc. I think I would do anything to get away from tuning the way I do now (except for buying my own equipment, of course). -Flynn Cohen Dartington College of Arts Devon, England. >fcohen@dcolarts.demon.co.uk< Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 22:02 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA00015; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 13:01:49 -0800 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 13:01:49 -0800 Message-Id: <0099ED9E6F07B2A1.D849@ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu