Re: Microtuning the orchestra

Picking up the old thread again...

Here is a short (17 second) sample of Garritan, again, playing some 15-tet
music (live) through Scala's microtonal relay facility:

http://rm-and-jo.laughingsquid.org/temp/GPO-FTS-Test3-s.mp3

It's just "messing around" music, meant only to illustrate the tuning and
some of the various GPO instruments in an orchestral type setting.

Cheers,
Rick

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Rick McGowan <rick@u...> wrote:
>
> Picking up the old thread again...
>
> Here is a short (17 second) sample of Garritan, again, playing some
15-tet
> music (live) through Scala's microtonal relay facility:
>
> http://rm-and-jo.laughingsquid.org/temp/GPO-FTS-Test3-s.mp3
>
> It's just "messing around" music, meant only to illustrate the
tuning and
> some of the various GPO instruments in an orchestral type setting.
>
> Cheers,
> Rick
>

This sounds great! I want you to develop this fragment, it was *DELICIOUS*

Best,
Aaron.

Rick,

{you wrote...}
>It's just "messing around" music, meant only to illustrate the tuning and >some of the various GPO instruments in an orchestral type setting.

Yeah, but you're leading the way in how to use new tools to make it happen, as well as working with developers - our own Robert The Inventor and Manuel The Wizard - to get everything together. Very fun, loving the frisson...

Cheers,
Jon

Hello all, and Happy New Year...

In our last exciting episode, I put up an 8-channel test of 15-tet music
played with GPO relayed through the latest FTS beta. (Please see earlier
messages in this thread if you haven't been following.)

Robert's FTS implementation has now progressed to a basically "bug-free"
state such that I'm able to use a larger orchestra and work on more than 1
MIDI device, and the GPO keyswitches all work properly, so it can do
pizzicato and all that stuff.

Here is an orchestra of 5 winds, 4 brass, and strings in GPO. I also added
a piano using one channel of Wusik in 15-tet.

http://rm-and-jo.laughingsquid.org/temp/GPO-FTS-15tet-Test4.mp3

The music is a slight expansion of the same "messing around" I posted back
on December 14.

Balance and panning leave something to be desired, but you get the basic
idea. Next time I'll probably throw in some timpani.

Rick

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Rick McGowan wrote:
>
> Jon asked,
>
> > How about burning one with just a little less verb?
>
> OK... I had some time, so I just uploaded again, with less reverb and with
> some of the panning adjusted for better layout.
> http://rm-and-jo.laughingsquid.org/temp/GPO-FTS-15tet-Test4.mp3

Rick,

Mussorgsky would have loved this! New colours
for "Pictures at a (neo-Impressionist) Exhibition",
say ...

Thanks for showing us what the software can do.
You wrote, earlier, that you used: "GPO relayed
through the latest FTS beta." Was this hard or
expensive to set up? And do you have to be a beta
tester for FTS?

Regards,
Yahya

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On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Rick McGowan wrote:
>
> > You wrote, earlier, that you used: "GPO relayed
> > through the latest FTS beta." Was this hard or
> > expensive to set up? And do you have to be a beta
> > tester for FTS?
>
> I think if you write to Robert Walker he could tell you. He has a 30-day
> free trial, which would help you determine if FTS meets your needs. FTS is
> not very expensive anyway. GPO itself, however, is pretty expensive. You
> also need a MIDI loop driver like "Midi Yoke" to do any of this, because
> you have to connect the output of some MIDI player to FTS, and then
connect
> FTS to GPO.
>
> FTS: http://www.robertinventor.com
> GPO: http://www.garritan.com
> MIDI Yoke: http://www.midiox.com
>
> It is a bit of a hassle to set up FTS with all of the right options and
> windows to do this, but once you've done it, the software remembers your
> settings, and then all you have to do is point it at different tuning
> files. At some point, when Robert releases the next FTS version, I had
> planned to write up some pointers about how to set up FTS properly for
this
> kind of re-tuning.

Rick,

Thanks for the info. It sounds a bit too heavy
for me to get tangled up in at present, then.
(I've just finished a short holiday yesterday,
and must plunge back into work in a couple of
minutes.) I'll keep an eye out for your planned
"pointers".

Regards,
Yahya

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