New Tuning Method: Difference between revisions
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* Kontakt does not provide sysex support in its scripting language. | * Kontakt does not provide sysex support in its scripting language. | ||
* CSoundAV (CSound in real time) can't receive sysexes. | * CSoundAV (CSound in real time) can't receive sysexes. | ||
* SonicBirth (an AU maker) doesn't even mention sysexes in its manual. | * SonicBirth (an AU maker) doesn't even mention sysexes in its manual. | ||
This means that synths created with CSoundAV | This means that synths created with CSoundAV or SonicBirth can't implement MTS. Any synth that does implement MTS won't do so if hosted in Abelton Live or FL Studio or Studio One. Also, Kontakt instruments can't be scripted to respond to MTS. For these reasons microtonalists have been considering alternatives to MTS sysexes. | ||
The powers that be will probably never change the midi spec to give us what we want, a non-sysex method for tuning individual notes. So we've decided to simply create a new unofficial microtuning method. The plan is to have the new method supported by all the major midi tuning software packages, aka __**retuners**__: Alt-tuner, Bounce, Custom Scale Editor, Fractal Tune Smithy, LMSO, Scala, etc. | The powers that be will probably never change the midi spec to give us what we want, a non-sysex method for tuning individual notes. So we've decided to simply create a new unofficial microtuning method. The plan is to have the new method supported by all the major midi tuning software packages, aka __**retuners**__: Alt-tuner, Bounce, Custom Scale Editor, Fractal Tune Smithy, LMSO, Scala, etc. | ||
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Sysexes have the disadvantage of being poorly supported in many environments:<br /> | Sysexes have the disadvantage of being poorly supported in many environments:<br /> | ||
<ul><li>Abelton Live filters out sysexes from the midi stream and keeps them from any VST it hosts.</li><li>FL Studio also does not allow VST plugins it hosts to receive sysex data. (see footnote)</li><li>Studio One doesn't allow recording or playback of sysexes.</li><li>Kontakt does not provide sysex support in its scripting language.</li><li>CSoundAV (CSound in real time | <ul><li>Abelton Live filters out sysexes from the midi stream and keeps them from any VST it hosts.</li><li>FL Studio also does not allow VST plugins it hosts to receive sysex data. (see footnote)</li><li>Studio One doesn't allow recording or playback of sysexes.</li><li>Kontakt does not provide sysex support in its scripting language.</li><li>CSoundAV (CSound in real time) can't receive sysexes.</li><li>SonicBirth (an AU maker) doesn't even mention sysexes in its manual.</li></ul>This means that synths created with CSoundAV or SonicBirth can't implement MTS. Any synth that does implement MTS won't do so if hosted in Abelton Live or FL Studio or Studio One. Also, Kontakt instruments can't be scripted to respond to MTS. For these reasons microtonalists have been considering alternatives to MTS sysexes.<br /> | ||
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The powers that be will probably never change the midi spec to give us what we want, a non-sysex method for tuning individual notes. So we've decided to simply create a new unofficial microtuning method. The plan is to have the new method supported by all the major midi tuning software packages, aka <u><strong>retuners</strong></u>: Alt-tuner, Bounce, Custom Scale Editor, Fractal Tune Smithy, LMSO, Scala, etc.<br /> | The powers that be will probably never change the midi spec to give us what we want, a non-sysex method for tuning individual notes. So we've decided to simply create a new unofficial microtuning method. The plan is to have the new method supported by all the major midi tuning software packages, aka <u><strong>retuners</strong></u>: Alt-tuner, Bounce, Custom Scale Editor, Fractal Tune Smithy, LMSO, Scala, etc.<br /> | ||
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Footnote on FL Studio sysex incompatibility, which is undocumented.<br /> | Footnote on FL Studio sysex incompatibility, which is undocumented.<br /> | ||
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Excerpted from a July 2013 conversation with &quot;Reflex&quot;, a site admin:<br /> | Excerpted from a July 2013 conversation with &quot;Reflex&quot;, a site admin:<br /> | ||