Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

>>Not being able to name a tuning is a bit annoying.<<

agreed, but I arrived at a "standard" that I stick to, which works for me... ymmv, as they say. without getting too specific, I use the 12 tuning tables to make "shapes" of certain scales, by flattening the same notes in each octave for each table.

table one being a relative minor, table two being a phrygian... 

*so the tuning table sets the scale, the transpose sets the absolute pitch, & between them they establish the key of a patch.*

I can have a Cm patch & an Am patch that use the same tuning table, but when I play a C into the Am patch, it plays an A instead. 

then I create vanilla patches which are named for both the scale of the tuning table and also for the transpose, which is set in the edit menu of the preset. then it's just a case of editing those patches (changing the waveforms & so on) & resaving them. 

so I have a Dm sqr pulse, an Am sawtooth, a Cm marimba, & so on.

now, how useful this is to other folks I don't know, but I use this technique with a doepfer maq sequencer, & it means the sequencer can play the right notes in any key we want, without any external quantisation or transposition being applied.

I originally had a tuning table where every note was detuned by 3 or 4 semitones to achieve an Am scale. imagine how I kicked myself when I realised I could just transpose the Cm scale down.  :-)

d.