Harmor

Image-line's new synth, Harmor, looks pretty amazing.

http://www.image-line.com/documents/harmor.html

Anyone care to brave the rapids and figure out if it supports
Scala files (or other microtuning support)?

-Carl

OK, first off,

I'm really surprised and pleased for another reason: I tried using Wine (a Windows non emulator) on my Macbook to try and run this, since it's Windows only. I found a free Windows VST host (called VSThost) and downloaded the Harmor demo, and lo and behold, it made sounds!

It made some pretty awesome sounds, in fact.

But the answer seems to be no, no visible microtonal support. You can detune or transpose (somehow these are different functions) by a fraction of an octave or a just ratio, and some of the effect parameters bespeak an understanding of the harmonic series, but seemingly no microtonal import of any kind.

I also tried using Wine to run Tonescape and Fractal Tune Smithy, but Tonescape can't find the synthesizer and FTS seems to have no window. Oh well for now.

Jcaob

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <carl@...> wrote:
>
> Image-line's new synth, Harmor, looks pretty amazing.
>
> http://www.image-line.com/documents/harmor.html
>
> Anyone care to brave the rapids and figure out if it supports
> Scala files (or other microtuning support)?
>
> -Carl
>

Thanks. Too bad, it looks like an amazing synth.

-Carl

At 03:20 PM 9/12/2011, you wrote:
>OK, first off,
>
>I'm really surprised and pleased for another reason: I tried using
>Wine (a Windows non emulator) on my Macbook to try and run this, since
>it's Windows only. I found a free Windows VST host (called VSThost)
>and downloaded the Harmor demo, and lo and behold, it made sounds!
>
>It made some pretty awesome sounds, in fact.
>
>But the answer seems to be no, no visible microtonal support. You can
>detune or transpose (somehow these are different functions) by a
>fraction of an octave or a just ratio, and some of the effect
>parameters bespeak an understanding of the harmonic series, but
>seemingly no microtonal import of any kind.
>
>I also tried using Wine to run Tonescape and Fractal Tune Smithy, but
>Tonescape can't find the synthesizer and FTS seems to have no window.
>Oh well for now.
>
>Jcaob

Yes it does support sccala format - just drag and drop file into GUI. It's in the manual.

Whoa!!

At 06:31 AM 10/25/2011, you wrote:
>Yes it does support sccala format - just drag and drop file into GUI.
>It's in the manual.
>
>

If I had a spare $200 I'd be buying it.

It looks to be a very interesting synth with a lot of neat ways to make
sound.
On my wish list.

Chris

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Lumma <carl@...> wrote:

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> Whoa!!
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> At 06:31 AM 10/25/2011, you wrote:
> >Yes it does support sccala format - just drag and drop file into GUI.
> >It's in the manual.
> >
> >
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>
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It's actually $135. The bad news is that there is no .kbm support according to this thread:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=327967&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=420

>
> If I had a spare $200 I'd be buying it.
>
> It looks to be a very interesting synth with a lot of neat ways to make
> sound.
> On my wish list.
>
> Chris

http://youtu.be/Pw3YHqd8nbA
Hi all,
I am pleased to propose you Pachelbel's Canon and Gigue, rendered in four different tunings:
01 - Just intonation, 2 layers of pythagorean fifths at a distance of a natural third, plus septimal C;
02 - 31 equal;
03 - Fokker's 31 just scale centered on D;
04 - Septimal meantone.
Natural C's at the end of the canon have been rendered as septimal notes in all examples; ambiguous notes arising in the Gigue in example 01 have been resolved by syntactic considerations.
Played at midi organ. Tuned with Scala. Implemented with Timidity++
Soundfont: English Chamber Organ (EngChamberOrgan.SF2).
Tempo: close to Jordi Savall's performance.
Best wishes!
Claudi