Strange Diatonic & Drifting to Sleep

Strange Diatonic

Using Fractal Tune Smithy I retuned my Roland GR-20 to this tuning

116.129
387.097
425.806
696.774
812.903
1006.452
2/1

Which is named: Strange diatonic-like strictly proper scale

I then improvised finger picking on my Fender Mustang. Most everything I hit was ok sounding.
I think the improvisation came out ok if you ignore the noise and a couple missed notes

Download

http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=218

Online player

http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=142

Song Icon (Me in the middle, my two cousins Jeff and Cathy on either side)
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=217&t=1
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Drifting to Sleep

Another improvisation set - guitars and synth - very ambient-ish - please try to ignore the 6 or so bad notes.
The GR-20 is tuned to an "optimized" 12 note tuning via fractal tune smithy - but this morning @ 1 am seems so long ago and I forgot which.

Download

http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=212

Online player

http://notonlymusic.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=257

Song Icon

http://www.traxinspace.com/pub/123320/45899_l.jpg

Thanks for that. I enjoyed it and I think I'll have to try the scale myself. What is its mathematical derivation?

Mark, I don't know to be honest.

FTS was showing fractions at one point but I can't get them back.

FTS - for all its goodness can be complicated. I guess that is the
result of being able to do almost anything you'd imagine a program
like this can do.

And special thanks for the comment at my www.chrisvaisvil.com website.
I appreciate that.

Chris

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:24 PM, markallanbarnes
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--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "markallanbarnes" <mark.barnes3@...> wrote:
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Looks like 31-tET.

116.129 = 3\31
387.097 = 10\31
425.806 = 11\31
696.774 = 18\31
812.903 = 21\31
1006.452 = 26\31
2/1 = 31\31

So, 0-3-10-11-18-21-26-(31). I see four sizes of scale-step: 1\31, 3\31, 5\31, 7\31. Interesting.

-Igs

Thanks. I've just tried the Strange Diatonic on Scala and very much enjoyed the sound. Now I know it's 31 edo I can put 5 extra notes in to make a chromatic that fits the pattern for use on a midi keyboard.

Hi Mark - great!

Could you share your augmented tuning scheme? Or I guess at this point
your scale in 31 edo actually.

I'm looking forward to your music in it!

Chris

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:17 PM, markallanbarnes
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