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tunable synths

🔗Steve Curtin <curtin@...>

10/7/1996 6:49:07 AM


>Here in detail are the models (by manufacturer) :
>
>ENSONIQ
>Mirage - Full keyboard, 256 parts per octave or
> 4096/octave by entering all 60 notes
> Requires Dick Lord's UPWARD CONCEPTS
> alternative operating system disk or
> Buzz Kimball's alternative OS disk.
>ESQ-1, ESQ-M, SQ-80 - Only retunable within 12 notes
> per octave. Details published in a 1986
> KEYBOARD magazine article.
>VFX, VFX- SQ, TS-10 - Full keyboard, 768 parts per octave.
Over 30 tunings in ROM.
>EPS, EPS-16+, ASR-10 - Full keyboard, 768 parts
> per octave. Tuning is stored on disk along
> with the sound sample.
>SQ-1, SQ-1R - NOT RETUNABLE!
>Also, none of Ensoniq's dedicated piano modules are
>retunable.

To this I would add:
MR-Rack, MR-61, MR-76 - Rack mount and full keyboard, 1536
parts per octave. Stores one global RAM user tuning that
can be downloaded via MIDI Tuning
Standard dump messages and edited on the fly
with MTS note change. Over 40 tunings in ROM.
>ESQ-1, ESQ-M, SQ-80,
>SQ-1, SQ-1R - Can be retuned to different ET's with a coarse
but sometimes usable resolution.

See my series in the Transoniq Hacker http://www.transoniq.com/~trnsoniq/
April-June 1995 for details on tuning ALL the Ensoniq synths. Also see the
web page (www.ensoniq.com) for general specs.



regards,

Steve Curtin
Ensoniq Corp



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10/9/1996 9:29:28 AM
>PS Square waves, or any other particular overtone structure, again, were
>uncorrelated to resuts. Why? Simply remember that the cognitive domain,
>where the "similarity" operation is accomplished (for both octaves and
>"morenoctaves" --which are not just simply powers of 3 but psychological
>categories), must not be confused with the psychoacoustical domain --where
>squre waves live. This confusion of domains, to which unfortunately most
>researchers with a physical bacground are prone (including one of my thesis
>advisers, John Pierce) is the downfall of anyone trying to understand a
>*musical* phenomenon.

I think I agree very much with you here. We don't hear square waves in terms
of their individual components, we just hear the fundamental of each
(incomplete) harmonic series and associate a (hollow, buzzy) timbre with
them. Now did you find that other relationships, such as powers of 2.718,
could not evoke cognitive similarity?


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