Tones for Joe's Bones

For Joe P (and anyone that cares),

You asked in another conversations about how softsynths are used in multiples, and I said an example makes it the easiest, so:

http://www.microtonal.org/mp3/z2s.mp3 [650kb]

(I'll only keep it up there a day or so...)

Description: Sonar 2.2 with two tracks, each one assigned to a z3ta+. The first synth is tuned to 19tet, second a 5-note sub-group of 22 (see note below), both loaded directly from Scala .scl files. I play the scale on the first, and then five note scale patterns on the second, and then both at the same time (all using the sequencer). Select both tracks and export to audio (this is the DAW version of "mixing down").

That is all there is to it. You can plainly hear two different tunings (as well as two different sounds), and there are no external processors used - all reverb and delay is from the z3ta+ patches themselves. I believe this should answer your question(s)...

[Note from above: this is an EXAMPLE, and tunings were chosen arbitrarily to show a blatant difference between the instances of the synth. This is *NOT* a piece of music, and don't ever accuse me of saying it is/was!! :) ]

Cheers,
Jon

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Jonathan M. Szanto"

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<JSZANTO@A...> wrote:
> For Joe P (and anyone that cares),
>
> You asked in another conversations about how softsynths are used in
> multiples, and I said an example makes it the easiest, so:
>
> http://www.microtonal.org/mp3/z2s.mp3 [650kb]
>
> (I'll only keep it up there a day or so...)
>
> Description: Sonar 2.2 with two tracks, each one assigned to a
z3ta+. The
> first synth is tuned to 19tet, second a 5-note sub-group of 22 (see
note
> below), both loaded directly from Scala .scl files.

###That is absolutely INCREDIBLE!...

I play the scale on the
> first, and then five note scale patterns on the second, and then
both at
> the same time (all using the sequencer). Select both tracks and
export to
> audio (this is the DAW version of "mixing down").
>
> That is all there is to it. You can plainly hear two different
tunings (as
> well as two different sounds), and there are no external processors
used -
> all reverb and delay is from the z3ta+ patches themselves.

###That is *also* absolutely amazing!

Well, certainly, although short, this excerpt shows the dynamic range
of the instrument much more than the puny examples on the z3 site.
You should do some more, Jon, and send it to them, since I don't
think their examples are showing the range...

So, why can't I just get going? Why do I have to examine every
softsynth in the world? Why don't I let *you* do the research, Jon,
and then I'll just get this thing and start actually
*MakingMicroMusic..." (??) :) :)

Thanks for the demo... this is really exciting...

JP