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Re: suggestion for alternative quantizing module

2005-11-04 by selfoscillate

hello anton, ernst, florian,

all good points. thanks for making me understand.

best wishes

ingo




--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Anton Coops" <dubshot@x...> 
wrote:
>
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> Out of tune-ness does not only come from the scale you use, but 
> also from the timbre that you use in a given scale (and of course 
the 
> combinations of notes you play). It can take some time before you 
> find a good combination, but there are some tricks.  
> 
> So in the module I suggest, for *each* value of 'n', or for each 
> scale, you have *specific* combinations of notes and timbres that 
> sound good or don't sound good.
> 
> One advantage of the approach I suggested would be that you can 
> more easily modulate in equally divided scales than in other 
unusual 
> or experimental scales. It's also basic, a bit like the freqency 
divider, 
> so that should increase the possibilities for mis-use :-)
> 
> Anton
> 
> On 3 Nov 2005, at 16:11, selfoscillate wrote:
> 
> > 
> > hello anton,
> > 
> > i tried this with reaktor a few months/years ago,
> > and there is one problem with it.
> > the whole show sounds just "out of tune" when
> > the octave is divided in a range that doesn't fit
> > to the semitone scale. dividing an octave by 7 for
> > example will only give you wrong notes, but it won't give
> > you new sounds, just old sounds which are out of tune.
> > ok, maybe somebody wants that, but i can't imagine why.
> > 
> > only my 2 cents
> > 
> > best wishes
> > 
> > ingo
> > 
> > 
> > --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Anton Coops" <dubshot@x> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi list,
> > > 
> > > Dividing an octave in 12 equal steps is fine, but what I would 
like 
> > > even more is a quantizing module that can divide an octave 
in 'n' 
> > > steps
> > > 
> > > n = 1: 1 step of 1200 cents
> > > n = 2: 2 steps of 600 cents
> > > n = 3: 3 x 400 cents etc. etc., maybe up to n = 25
> > > 
> > > note: a transpose-option (like in the a-156) should transpose 
in 'n-
> > > ed' steps as well. Unusual sounds gauranteed!
> > > 
> > > Good idea or am I missing something? Has somebody allready 
built 
> > > a module that can do this?
> > > 
> > > greetings
> > > 
> > > Anton
> > >
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