source file: mills3.txt Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 18:32:24 +0200 Subject: Re: Sysex vs. Pitch Bend From: gbreed@cix.compulink.co.uk (Graham Breed) The MIDI Tuning Standard allows 128 notes to be tuned at a time. If your instrument has multiple tuning tables, there is a SysEx for switching between them. If that isn't good enough for you, you'll have to use pitch bends. It means you can only play 15 notes at a time. Funnily enough, I've never heard guitarists complain about only having 6 strings. MTS is superb, if you can afford equipment that supports it. It is more accurate than any acoustic instrument (except maybe for JI) but less precise if you only get 1 cent steps. A preliminary look at the EMU/Creative Sound Font 2 standard shows that it is possible to embed tunings in voice files, in a memory efficient way. If this is set up before performance, changing scales simply requires a patch change message. I intend to write some software to add the tunings to the files. Unfortunately, it's fundamentally limited to 1 cent steps, but that's a hell of a lot better than nothing. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: esabat@adinet.com.uy Subject: All the music is microtonal PostedDate: 27-09-97 20:14:07 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 27-09-97 20:13:44-27-09-97 20:13:45,27-09-97 20:12:46-27-09-97 20:12:46 DeliveredDate: 27-09-97 20:12:46 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C125651F.00642109; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:13:40 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00055; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:14:07 +0200 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:14:07 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00048 Received: (qmail 15067 invoked from network); 27 Sep 1997 11:14:04 -0700 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Sep 1997 11:14:04 -0700 Message-Id: <199709271816.PAA15827@mail.adinet.com.uy> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu