source file: mills3.txt
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 17:58:18 +0200

Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1191

From: "Fred Kohler" <Fred_Kohler@bc.sympatico.ca>

In Digest 1191Carter Scholz said:
<snip>
>In Digest 1189, John Loffink writes:

>>The greatest limitation is the insistance on handling tuning dumps
>>only on a full keyboard basis.  This makes dynamic tuning programs
>>like Justonic's almost impossible as the MIDI bandwidth can't
>>support real-time updates.
>
>But the spec says that the full keyboard "non-real-time" dump isn't
>intended for performance.  Instead, there's an additional 12-byte
>"real-time" message for retuning any individual note on the fly.
>
>I don't know exactly what Justonic is doing, but I can't imagine why it
>would need more than these 12 bytes per note-on.  The synthesizer
>doesn't need to know the entire tuning table, it just needs to get
>up-to-date frequency data for sounding notes from its host.
<snip>

That wouldn't help me but it might work for some other MIDI gear.  My sound
card (Turtle Beach Tropez+) supports the MIDI Tuning Dump standard but not
MIDI Real Time Single-Note Tuning Change.

I'll pass this on to Justonic.  Maybe they can incorporate it into their
next release.

---Fred.

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