[sdiy] VCO tuning philosophy re-visited

[Paul Burns]

Vallotti and Young  , Andreas Werkmeister, Johann Phillip Kirnberger all
produced interesting tunings.

Yamaha introduced them into the late SY series along with others
(Pythagorean, Pure, Mean tone to name a few ) especially the SY99 back in
the early nineties.
You could of course make your own tunings up as well in that unit.

Regards

Paul




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Sent: 07 February 2011 22:38
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] VCO tuning philosophy re-visited

On Feb 7, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Ian Fritz wrote:

> Sure, but don't forget that acoustic instrumentalists often deviate from
tempered tuning to improve consonance.  The best example is string
quartets.  They have intricate rules about who tunes to whom while playing.

Ah, indeed, yes - that's something facilitated by fretless instruments, and
certainly a capella choirs, although they have to get away from the piano in
rehearsal. ;)

I suppose a live-performing synthesis with a killer ear (i.e. not me!) could
do similar tricks with a continuous controller, if the max pitch bend was
set to be pretty tight...

I've noticed some guitar players doing that kind of thing a bit too, when
they tune using specific chords for a particular song.

- Aaron
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