New Tuning Method: Difference between revisions

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'''<u>A new microtuning method for midi synths</u>:'''

As we're all painfully aware, the midi spec isn't very microtonal-friendly. The powers that be decided that pitch bend messages would affect the whole channel, not individual notes, so retuning most synths requires dividing the midi stream among multiple channels. That increases setup time for the user and reduces polyphony, and generally complicates matters. The powers that be did create the Midi Tuning Specification (MTS) sysexes, [http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midituning.php http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midituning.php]. The single-note real-time sysex is the most powerful and useful one. MTS sysexes haven't been widely adopted, except for high-end Roland keyboards which use the considerably less powerful non-realtime Scale/Octave Tuning sysex.

As we're all painfully aware, the [[MIDI|midi]] spec isn't very microtonal-friendly. The powers that be decided that pitch bend messages would affect the whole channel, not individual notes, so retuning most synths requires dividing the midi stream among multiple channels. That increases setup time for the user and reduces polyphony, and generally complicates matters. The powers that be did create the Midi Tuning Specification (MTS) sysexes, [http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midituning.php http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midituning.php]. The single-note real-time sysex is the most powerful and useful one. MTS sysexes haven't been widely adopted, except for high-end Roland keyboards which use the considerably less powerful non-realtime Scale/Octave Tuning sysex.

Sysexes have the disadvantage of being poorly supported in many environments:

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 '''<u>A new microtuning method for midi synths</u>:'''
-As we're all painfully aware, the midi spec isn't very microtonal-friendly. The powers that be decided that pitch bend messages would affect the whole channel, not individual notes, so retuning most synths requires dividing the midi stream among multiple channels. That increases setup time for the user and reduces polyphony, and generally complicates matters. The powers that be did create the Midi Tuning Specification (MTS) sysexes, [http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midituning.php http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midituning.php]. The single-note real-time sysex is the most powerful and useful one. MTS sysexes haven't been widely adopted, except for high-end Roland keyboards which use the considerably less powerful non-realtime Scale/Octave Tuning sysex.
+As we're all painfully aware, the [[MIDI|midi]] spec isn't very microtonal-friendly. The powers that be decided that pitch bend messages would affect the whole channel, not individual notes, so retuning most synths requires dividing the midi stream among multiple channels. That increases setup time for the user and reduces polyphony, and generally complicates matters. The powers that be did create the Midi Tuning Specification (MTS) sysexes, [http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midituning.php http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midituning.php]. The single-note real-time sysex is the most powerful and useful one. MTS sysexes haven't been widely adopted, except for high-end Roland keyboards which use the considerably less powerful non-realtime Scale/Octave Tuning sysex.
 Sysexes have the disadvantage of being poorly supported in many environments: