source file: m1434.txt Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:59:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Yamaha FB-01/TX-81Z From: "Ewan A. Macpherson" Drew Skyfyre wrote: > I'm about to get an FB-01 and am looking for information on > microtuning it.I've looked about on the 'bahn and came up with > zilch.The TX-81Z seems easier to use for microtuning. The FB-01 has no tuning tables. All microtuning must be done on the fly by replacing note-on & note-off messages with sysex messages indicating the exact pitch to be played. This is very flexible, but of course requires some software. The tuning resolution is only 64 steps/semitone. The manual isn't too bad in describing how the microtuning works. A long time ago I wrote some awful QuickBasic code to do some of this. I suppose MAX or something similar could be used on the Mac. I once saw Martin Bartlett demonstrating microtuning on the FB-01 with some Atari software, but I suspect that was homebrew. In terms of sound programming, the FB-01 has only 4 sinewave operators. The TX-81Z has other waveforms as well. -- Ewan Macpherson Central Systems Laboratory Kresge Hearing Research Institute http://www-personal.umich.edu/~emacpher