source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 18:59:26 -0800 Subject: Justonic Follow-Up From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@CompuServe.COM> > All I know at this point is that they convinced the Kurzweil people to > modify the OS to allow a currently sounding note to be retuned in real-time. I'm not sure if this will necessarily help much, but again, that gets back to how you deal with comma (dieses, skhismas, and whatever 36:35 is called; I can't recall the name) errors arising from common tones. I know of three main possibilities: 1. Suspend them unchanged into the next chord, risking the possibility that they'll be wolf tones. I believe that's what Denny Genovese usually does. 2. Shift their pitch when the competing note sounds. That's Dave Hill's, and apparently Justonic's approach. 3. Let the tonic wander. That's the approach I find most interesting, although I can imagine value in all of the three of them used judiciously. It would be neat if they'd allow all three as an algorithmic-composition-like harmonization parameter. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 04:15 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA20504; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 17:41:10 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA21192 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA29639; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 08:41:08 -0800 Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 08:41:08 -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