source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 12:56:33 -0800 Subject: Re: Pitch bend From: Matt Nathan Lionel Dotson wrote: > Matt: Jever take'n try to tune 8 bars of *barbershop* harmony in MIDI? I love the barborshop quartet sound, but I haven't actually sung it, nor sequenced it myself. About midi and microtones, pitch-bend tweaking is too much trouble. I admire the stamina of people who can do it that way. I prefer to tune the instrument (Yamaha DX7-II in my case) rather than the sequence file (pitch bend events). That way, I get all the polyphony on the same midi channel, and I can play it manually as well. I can also build scales by ear, without preplanning, one new note at a time, tuning it against the notes I've already tuned. That kind of trial-and-error process using pitch-bend tweaking on multiple midi channels would be horrendous. > Attached,find 2(two) midi files. One(annie.mid) is pitchbend tuned,the > other(annieun.mid) is untuned. Great, thanks! Could you send them again and attach them as files rather than as coded text please? (If you're using Netscape Navigator for Win95, click "As is" rather than "Convert to Plain Text" in the Attachments window.) I'm ignorant of how to handle the text versions. > The erudite members of this forum are invited to critique the *tuned* > midi file, and offer alternate tunings if they like. There must be many good ways to interpret a just tuning setting for a piece where the notation is originally in 12tet. I may have some ideas once I listen, but probably not criticisms. Matt Nathan Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 06:31 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03376; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 06:34:30 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA29944 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA06585; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 21:34:26 -0800 Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 21:34:26 -0800 Message-Id: <32C601F4.667B@ix.netcom.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu