DJW's 17tet example

Hi,

A while back, Daniel posted a midi file of an example etude in 17tet, wondering aloud what it would be like if someone else did a rendering/version of it. I've been getting up to speed with some new tools lately, and Dan has a big place in my artistic heart, so I thought I'd spend a few minutes with it.

We listened and discussed this elsewhere, but I thought I'd make just a brief mention here because I recently talked about 2 softsynths I've been using, spending the bulk of the time on the rgc:audio z3ta+. This one, however, uses VirSyn's Tera 2.1, and I really like this instrument.

Just to let you know, my recorded version took the midi file into Sonar 4, and I used a patch I came up with in Tera to realize it. Tera is a slam dunk: feed it a .scl file and it will play in that intonation; better than that, by default it is set up with instruments on all 16 midi channels, so you can either layer them (by making two go to the same channel) or tune them all to differing intonations. One of the 'cute' serendipities of this particular patch is that while the lower end of the instrument mimics some kind of clavichord, the higher you go it tends to get almost flute-like, rounding off the attack transients and high freqs. During the latter half of the etude it almost serves to semi-orchestrate the three voices, or at least having the top sing out a bit.

Beyond that, just a couple of obvious tempo fluctuations, and then the audio is sent out with just a little bit of small bright room verb courtesy the Lexicon Pantheon verb (which is a lovely verb included with the Producer Edition of Sonar 4).

It's short:

http://www.microtonal.org/mp3/djw_17_tera_2.ogg (~820kb)

Cheers,
Jon

for some reason this gets downloaded in OSX as a text file

Jonathan M. Szanto wrote:

>Hi,
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>A while back, Daniel posted a midi file of an example etude in 17tet, >wondering aloud what it would be like if someone else did a >rendering/version of it. I've been getting up to speed with some new tools >lately, and Dan has a big place in my artistic heart, so I thought I'd >spend a few minutes with it.
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>We listened and discussed this elsewhere, but I thought I'd make just a >brief mention here because I recently talked about 2 softsynths I've been >using, spending the bulk of the time on the rgc:audio z3ta+. This one, >however, uses VirSyn's Tera 2.1, and I really like this instrument.
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>Just to let you know, my recorded version took the midi file into Sonar 4, >and I used a patch I came up with in Tera to realize it. Tera is a slam >dunk: feed it a .scl file and it will play in that intonation; better than >that, by default it is set up with instruments on all 16 midi channels, so >you can either layer them (by making two go to the same channel) or tune >them all to differing intonations. One of the 'cute' serendipities of this >particular patch is that while the lower end of the instrument mimics some >kind of clavichord, the higher you go it tends to get almost flute-like, >rounding off the attack transients and high freqs. During the latter half >of the etude it almost serves to semi-orchestrate the three voices, or at >least having the top sing out a bit.
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>Beyond that, just a couple of obvious tempo fluctuations, and then the >audio is sent out with just a little bit of small bright room verb courtesy >the Lexicon Pantheon verb (which is a lovely verb included with the >Producer Edition of Sonar 4).
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>It's short:
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>http://www.microtonal.org/mp3/djw_17_tera_2.ogg (~820kb)
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>Cheers,
>Jon
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KG,

{you wrote...}
>for some reason this gets downloaded in OSX as a text file

Sorry to say, Macs are foreign territory to me. It might be a MIME setting or something, but the file is a straight-forward .ogg file.

Maybe someone else will be smarter than I ...

Cheers,
Jon

other ogg files i have not had this happen with. strange

Jonathan M. Szanto wrote:

>KG,
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>Sorry to say, Macs are foreign territory to me. It might be a MIME setting >or something, but the file is a straight-forward .ogg file.
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>Maybe someone else will be smarter than I ...
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>Cheers,
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OK played with ye ol MIME settingsiand figured out how to get it.
Very nice work Jonathan and of course Daniel. Once again i find myself liking 17 ET over 19

Kraig Grady wrote:

>other ogg files i have not had this happen with. strange
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>Jonathan M. Szanto wrote:
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>>KG,
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>>Sorry to say, Macs are foreign territory to me. It might be a MIME setting >>or something, but the file is a straight-forward .ogg file.
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>>Maybe someone else will be smarter than I ...
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>>Cheers,
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>OK played with ye ol MIME settingsiand figured out how to get it.
>Very nice work Jonathan and of course Daniel. Once again i find myself
>liking 17 ET over 19.

17 does have a very appealing sound...

-Carl

On Thursday 14 October 2004 11:42 pm, Kraig Grady wrote:
> OK played with ye ol MIME settingsiand figured out how to get it.
> Very nice work Jonathan and of course Daniel. Once again i find myself
> liking 17 ET over 19

I like them both! Both excellent in different ways....

But Daniel, this work rocks! I listened to it 3 times. I like your sense of
line and neo-Bach texture always gets and keeps me interested.

The timbre on this is very vivid too, and amazingly, sounds bright to me, but
not dissonant with 17-tet thirds, which is not something I would expect.
Bravo !

Cheers,
Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.dividebypi.com