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On Oct 11, 2014, at 11:18 AM, "David Kellett davidkellettwoulf@... [Doepfer_a100]" < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com > wrote:
Building things is beyond my abilities I'm afraid - so I tend not to look at kits etc for fear of disappointment.
Something that piqued my interest about that Barton User Writable Quantizer I linked to earlier
http://www.bartonmusicalcircuits.com/uwq/is the bi-polar function....although after further review, this is only an offset on the output, not the input. So presumably an LFO sent to be quantized would result in the low phase of the cycle being all one low note, just like the A-156.
Does anyone know of a quantizer with a built-in front-end offset for bi-polar input Or is it always up to the owner to insert an offset module pre-quantizer You could argue that this Barton UWQ module does have input offset as there is an auxiliary CV input with attenuator that is summed with the main CV Input, and if you wired the Aux In socket's NC terminal to the +5V power source, you would have a built-in front-end offset at the expense of having no input for Transpose. Perhaps an extra input for transpose could be added easily enough to the summing point.
Nick
On Oct 10, 2014, at 3:59 PM, "David Kellett davidkellettwoulf@... [Doepfer_a100]" < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com > wrote:
Ahhh but better that than equal temperament- in all keys not very well!!
So long as all the pieces you play are all in the same key! (Or you know a *really* quick piano tuner)
Martin
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On 10 Oct 2014, at 19:06, "David Kellett davidkellettwoulf@... [Doepfer_a100]" < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com > wrote:
Most musics of the world are in forms of microtonality - it is only really western music that decided to carve the octave up into equal steps. If you divide the octave up with reference to the harmonic series you get microtonal scales. It's part of the reason that I like it - apart from the sound - it just fits the natural order of things a bit better than Equal Temperament.
Obviously it's a personal choice through......
It's worth checking out La Monte Young's Well Tuned Piano if you can or Terry Riley's Harp Of The New Albion - once you have heard a concert grand piano tuned in just intonation equal tempered pianos never sound very good again!! Also Pauline Olliveros's Roots of the Moment CD - just intonation tuned accordion with time lag accumulator digital processing.
On 10 Oct 2014, at 17:18, achtung_999 heinrich.himmelwasser@... 1 < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com > wrote:
And, not unimportantly, people in the so called "old music" and Baroque music scenes are still verbally slaying each other over that one Martin :D
Not everyone agrees on which tuning Bach intended that collection of pieces to be played in.
Ernst
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Martin Fay martin@... 1 < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com > wrote:
Intonation or temperament are other terms for micro-tuning, it was a big thing a few centuries ago when keyboard instruments were being invented. "The Well Tempered Klavier" by Bach is a historic reference to this.
Martin
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On 10 Oct 2014, at 10:12, "achtung_999 heinrich.himmelwasser@... [Doepfer_a100]" < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com > wrote:
This thread is getting better and better! Thanks for all the other mentioned alternatives.
Nicholas what do you mean with AFX scales Microtonal tuning existed several decades before Richard D. James began talking about it last month ;-)
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:44 AM, David Kellett davidkellettwoulf@... 1 < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com > wrote:
Yep.
www.movingisliving.co.uk
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That A.Sys one doesn't do eastern or "AFX" scales either, only semitones in various configurations
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On Oct 9, 2014, at 8:07 PM, "Loren Nerell lnerell@... [Doepfer_a100]" < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com > wrote:
How about Analogue Systems RS130, Programmable Scale Generator
http://www.analoguesystems.co.uk/modules/rs130.htm
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From: "David Kellett davidkellettwoulf@ yahoo.com [Doepfer_a100]"
Sent: Oct 9, 2014 5:06 AM
To: "doepfer_a100@ yahoogroups.com "
Subject: 1 Quantizing to Alternative tuning
Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a module or modules that could be set up to take control voltages and quantized them to a non western scale. I'm thinking about making a price of music that is tuned to harmonics and would like to be able to quantize sequencers, other controllers to pitches that I determine beforehand. I hope that makes sense.
Of course I could laboriously tune sequencers to the correct pitches but I don't know how to do this with say the output of a random or LFO source or ribbon controller etc.
Any ideas
David
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Take care. - Loren