source file: m1436.txt Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 17:48:30 +0000 Subject: Miscellaneous news From: "Patrick Ozzard-Low" Dear Tuning - some items of interest: 1) Just published: THE QUARTER-TONE RECORDER MANUAL by Kathryn Bennetts, Donald Boustead and Peter Bowman. Moeck No 2084, Moeck Verlag Celle. I just recieved my copy, and it looks excellent. All examples are for conventional alto recorder, it includes a separate fingering chart, numerous 1/4 tone exercises, a short work by Donald Bousted, and a list of about 30 existing 1/4 tone compositions for (or including) recorders. Its about 50 pages altogether - and costs =A35 quid (pounds sterling) - which is very good value. 2) Heard on the grapevine that Roland will release the S7700 in the last quarter of 98 - a mega sampler/synth which combines the S7xx sampler series with the JV1xxx synth - expandable to 128 Mb RAM. I will certainly contact Roland to discuss its microtonal capabilities, particularly the ideas of (1) on-board absulute pitch meter (2) macro setup facilities for non-standard patches (3) the number of 'partials' (key-groups) etc. Anyone else interested in knocking on their door with microtonal ideas? 3) Akai will release the S6000 (?) at about the same time. Latest sampler, expandable to 256 Mb RAM. Same question? 4) Lastly, I noticed that the Antares Auto-Tune (rackmount) is on its way, an updated hardware version of a feature of Pro-Tools. I haven't seen or heard this thing - but here's the blurb. *******BEGIN SALES BLURB ********* ......enjoy flawless pitch correction in real-time - without changing the signal in any other way........ Auto tune rack is simple to operate but extremely powerful in operation. It comes complete with pre-set scales, incl. major, minor and chromatic (DUUHH!) in any key. Want to make your own scales? No problem, simply define any combination of notes as a custom scale......... if you don't want pitch correction to affect vibrato, slides, bends, etc you can simply set Auto-Tune to ignore them *******END SALES BLURB********** I've no idea whether this thing is any good, or how the custom scales configuration works, but I can think of a number of applictions in which this kind of thing might be useful to tuning-ers.