source file: m1385.txt Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 20:15:47 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: tuning tables From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >Jeff Lofflink wrote: >Ensoniq pitch tables. As far as I know, though, you cannot update >them except by sending a whole pitch table, that is, you cnnot retune >"one note" at a time. I don't claim to have used much SysEx stuff to my Ensoniq gear, but I seem to recall that it implements a "virtual keypad" interface, meaning that SysEx messages simulate fingers hitting keys of the keypad. If so, then in concept I would think that you could retune some note by virtual keystrokes, then extrapolate (duplicate in all octaves, or whatever interval) it. >Since most of my pieces are in non-12 based tunings, I have found >the Korg and Roland synths almost useless. The Yamaha's (like the >TX81Z), the Emu's (like the Proteus modules) and the Ensoniq >samplers are all roughly equally capable. So then they to have completely arbitrary pitch tables (any key may be assigned any pitch without regard to how any other is assigned)?