source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 14:15:14 -0800 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 882 From: john_loffink@ycrdi.com tuning@eartha.mills.edu,Internet writes: >Friends, > This is a rather basic question I know, but does anyone know what >the tuning resolution of the K2000? How many steps are possible between a >semitone, and if this number is something like 2048 or hopefully 4096, how >are translations made between this number and cent values? Thanks in >advance. If you're speaking in terms of the intonation tables, resolution is limited to 1 cent steps by software. The value set in software is truncated, not rounded, to the next lowest hardware resolution, which is on the order of 1/20 cent. Transposing samples downwards 4-5 octaves or more reduces the tuning resolution. Changing pitch by other means such was the pitch wheel will usually be more limited by the controller than the K2000 internals. Most if not all of the pitch wheels of current synthesizers have a resolution of only 7-8 bits, even though the MIDI parameter has a resolution to 14 bits. John Loffink Senior Hardware Engineer Kurzweil Music Systems Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 23:21 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA23146; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 23:22:05 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA22649 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA15920; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 14:22:02 -0800 Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 14:22:02 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu