source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 02:37:37 -0700 Subject: More Equal Temp. vs. Just Int. MIDI files available From: Mark Nowitzky Hello again, fellow "tuning@eartha.mills.edu" subscribers and friends! Back by popular demand, I have created more example MIDI files demonstrating the difference between Equal Temperament and Just Intonation. I had been meaning to write about it for some time, but the appended email from Ed Dotson gave me the extra motivation I needed (Thanks, Ed!). To hear the new examples (the first 3 steps are the same): 1) Go to my home page, "http://www.pacificnet.net/~nowitzky", 2) Go to the "Interests" section, 3) Select "here" in the sentence "Click here for an explanation", 4) Down near the bottom of the "Just Intonation" page, select the link entitled "The" Dominant Seventh Chord (under "For more fun"), 5) Either read all my "blah blah blah" explanation, or if you're impatient, skip right to the bottom and select one of the four example links--"The first tuning", "The second tuning", "The third tuning", or "Equal temperament". As always, I appreciate any comments/criticism/suggestions on my stuff. Be well, and be "justly intoned"... --Mark ========================== Appended email, from Ed Dotson: At 11:21 PM 8/30/96 -0700, Ed Dotson wrote: >Hey Mark: I listened to the files. The justly tuned seemed >smoother... perhaps less vibrancy due to fewer beats. I'm a bbshopper who >doesn't find the 7th flat(g)... maybe flat beautiful!! >How did you justly tune promenji.mid. By manual calculation and pitch >bending? >-- > >Ed Dotson >ldotson@sprynet.com >73757.1062@compuserve.com P.S.: Ed, I'm using pitch bending, as you surmised. I wrote a "CAL" ("Cakewalk Application Language") program to automate most of the necessary calculations. Thanks again for your email. --Mark +------------------------------------------------------+ | Mark Nowitzky | | email: nowitzky@pacificnet.net | | www: http://www.pacificnet.net/~nowitzky | | "If you haven't visited Mark Nowitzky's home | | page recently, you haven't missed much..." | +------------------------------------------------------+ Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 16:04 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA24699; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 16:05:50 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA24780 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA19161; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 07:05:39 -0700 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 07:05:39 -0700 Message-Id: <960906140000_71670.2576_HHB73-5@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu