source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:30:08 -0800 Subject: tuning a Roland From: "Adam B. Silverman" If I recall, back in the "Which synths should I buy?" thread, the consensus was to boycott Roland, who never allow microtuning and never will. Whoever said this aparrently did not do their homework, since I have found a Roland Super JD module (if anyone is interested, write me and I'll go back to the studio to check the model number) which allows any "part"--that's "voice" to most of us--to be tuned in increments of +/- 64ths of a tempered semitone. This is in the form of an octave=repeating pitch-class tuning table. Also, some of their patches seems to have a background layer tuned in quarter-tones (like their "telephone" sound-effect), so I'll bet that extended scales can be done--I just don't know how. It's not ideal, but is a great boon for people who like Roland sounds, which are much slicker than those found on the Proteus. Another methond of microtuning synths that has not been mentioned is to build a scale note-by-note as a "drum kit." I know that some Yamahas allow both coarse and fine detuning on a note-by-note basis in their "drum kits," and perhaps other brands will permit this as well. _________________ Adam B. Silverman 153 Cold Spring Street; A3 New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 782-1765 abs22@pantheon.yale.edu Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:00 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA21634; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:02:58 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA21667 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA29775; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:02:55 -0800 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:02:55 -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