Re: [MMM] miscellany

Joel wrote...

> But, I plan to replace it with a used TX-802, *if* NI doesn't get
> 128-note full MIDI tuning tables into FM7 in the mean time.

There's another possibility... I have talked with Martin Fay, author of
the VAZ Modular synth, and made 2 requests for the next version: an FM
synth C:M module, and a more modern envelope module. With those modules,
you could probably emulate the TX802 right down to the tunings.

(As you'll recall, the VAZ already has good microtonal support.)

Maybe if other people make the FM request for VAZ, and invest in VAZ
Modular, it might get done sooner.

Or, if someone out there in MMM land has experience with VST programming
and knows how to write a VST FM module that could plug into the VAZ???

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Joel wrote...

> Some Tuning Systems Compared by Matthew Romaine
> http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~mromaine/220a/fp/index.html

Amusingly, my son and I used the same Bach chorale "Ein feste Burg" in
tuning experiments 3 or 4 years back. Somewhere around, I have this choral
in several tunings, including 19-tET, Werckmeister III, etc.

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Re, the "FM is dead" article... The author Tom White wrote:
"With General MIDI there is no dependence on FM synthesis,
and developers are now able to create music that actually
sounds as it was intended."

What a hoot! Uh, I've written for FM synthesizers for years, and sorry,
folks but hell would freeze over before acoustic instruments could be
designed and built to make some of those intended sounds in the intended
tunings... Sheesh. If FM is "dead" it's only because the time on the
original patent has run out, so anyone can do it... ;-)

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Thanks for the link to Christina Branco. Wow. I bought one.

Cheers,
Rick