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John Loffink wrote:
>
> > A friend of mine just bought a Roland XP80, which permits
> > 12-note-per-octave tuning, specified in cents, and possibly per-note tuning
> > across the whole keyboard as well, althought I'm not as sure about that
> > part, as I only had a quick look at the manual, and about 5 minutes of
> > actual playing with the settings.
>
> The Roland JV-1080, XP-50 and XP-80 each have sixteen 12-note-per-octave
> tuning tables. Even the low-priced XP-10 has one 12-note-per-octave user
> tuning table. The XP-10's $895 list price probably qualifies it as the
> least expensive microtonal keyboard ever marketed. It's refreshing to see
> microtonal support, no matter how limited, in an instrument in this price
> range. Older Roland models with microtuning include the SC-50, SC-55mkII,
> SC-88, M-GS64, JV-90 and JV-880.
>
> John Loffink

Just thought I'd add that I see adds for used Yamaha DX7-II keyboards, like the one
I have, in the local used-stuff paper in Los Angeles for $300 to $500. It holds 2
user tunings which are complete per-note tunings, that is 128 midi triggerable or
61 keyboard triggerable pitches each tunable across the instrument's range (8
octaves?) to a resolution of 1024 Yamaha tuning units per octave. If one were to
purchase an additional memory cartridge, something like 40 additional user tunings
may be stored. Of course, using the midi tuning dump lets you store endless scales
on a computer or generate them in real time for transposition fun.



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