source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:09:52 +0100 Subject: MIDI/Audio wish list From: "Patrick Ozzard-Low" Dear All, Many thanks for your thoughts on these... Random, and (sorry) very hurried responses - Graham Breed wrote > My tuning priorities are: > > 1) At least 1/64 semitone steps > 2) A full keyboard table > 3) The ability to transpose that table differently for each channel > 4) At least 0.1 cent steps > 5) Multiple tables, easily swapped > 6) More than one table active at a time Graham, do you mean 1) and 4) refer to different things? (ie., 4 refers to 3?) Or am being very thick? General question: How essential is it to differentiate between sampler and synth 'wish lists'? Fred Kohler (?) wrote: > >I'm sure those that are exploring the non-octave based tunings such as Wendy > >Carlos' Alpha and 88CET would prefer at least having an option other than > >octave based tables. Yes, this is an important consideration. > Ensoniq defines its tuning tables very logically and easily. I would find >that a good model for others. > By the way, Ensoniq samplers have pretty good microtonal support. Gary, would you mind very briefly outlining how the Ensoniq works for ATS? Supposing you wanted to map the sampler for a '22-ET string trio' (to use my previous example) - would it be easy? John Loffink wrote: >IC = Integrated Circuit = Thanks John..... duuurrrrr >I guess I'm confused whether you want more "Partials" to accomplish >microtonal scales or better sampling. I want 1) more partials and 2) a way of dealing with them so that a patch ('instrument') can be set up easily. For example, suppose you've got a set of 36 samples, one for each (12-ET) note of a three octave range (say, of bowed violin strokes). And you want to 'build a violin' in 22-ET (or something) over 3 octaves. Imagine this: select range of samples (Sample Number 0-35); select range of partials (Keygroups) 0-65 (3 octaves in 22-ET); select source tuning type (12-ET); select destination tuning type (22-ET); select preferred deviation (ie., whether sampler chooses nearest sample to map from above or below desired destination frequency range - preferably from above, so destination is not 'mickey mouse' ); press GO. Sampler creates 66 partials, maps samples 0-35 to said 66 partials, and retunes accordingly. Impossible? Result would need to be checked/tweaked by user, but would save trillions of hours. Window type interface would be nice, but not essential. >I was talking about the Microzone, but I can see now the >distinction. The Microzone has just black or white keys, all one >size, and no "new" types of control. I'm sure the reason is purely >economics. It was the 'Kit' bit that I wanted to emphasise. The idea that the 'slots' themselves would be moveable... I don't really know how parctical this could be (?) Must dash, Patrick Ozzard-Low SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Loffink, John" Subject: RE: MIDI/Audio Wish List PostedDate: 12-01-98 21:25:39 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $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: 12-01-98 21:25:07-12-01-98 21:25:08,12-01-98 21:24:57-12-01-98 21:24:57 DeliveredDate: 12-01-98 21:24:57 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125658A.00702761; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:25:30 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA07986; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:25:39 +0100 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:25:39 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA17863 Received: (qmail 22230 invoked from network); 12 Jan 1998 12:25:37 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Jan 1998 12:25:37 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu