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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">**__A new microtuning method for midi synths__:** | <div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">**__Update June 2016:__** | ||
This tuning method is currently only implemented in alt-tuner and bounce. It only works with one synth, Kontakt, via a user-installed script. Contact the makers of alt-tuner and bounce for implementation details. | |||
**__A new microtuning method for midi synths__:** | |||
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]]. 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 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]]. 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. | ||
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html"><html><head><title>New Tuning Method</title></head><body><strong><u>A new microtuning method for midi synths</u>:</strong><br /> | <div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html"><html><head><title>New Tuning Method</title></head><body><strong><u>Update June 2016:</u></strong><br /> | ||
This tuning method is currently only implemented in alt-tuner and bounce. It only works with one synth, Kontakt, via a user-installed script. Contact the makers of alt-tuner and bounce for implementation details.<br /> | |||
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<strong><u>A new microtuning method for midi synths</u>:</strong><br /> | |||
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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, <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midituning.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midituning.php</a>. 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.<br /> | 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, <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midituning.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midituning.php</a>. 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.<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 /> | ||