remappable keyboards?

I've created a golden ratio-based scale I'd like to play on a keyboard. Are there any keyboards available for a reasonable price that allow me to tune each key separately by specifying either a frequency or a cents value? If so, exactly how is it done? Do you need a computer connection with the proper software?

On 11/10/2013 01:12 PM, yamatman@... wrote:
> I've created a golden ratio-based scale I'd like to play on a keyboard. Are there any keyboards available for a reasonable price that allow me to tune each key separately by specifying either a frequency or a cents value? If so, exactly how is it done? Do you need a computer connection with the proper software?

There are such keyboards. They're usually based on 12 note octaves, so if you want more than 12 notes you need to be careful what you buy. The most flexible thing is to buy a standard MIDI keyboard, plug it into your computer, and run one of the many fully retunably soft synths.

Graham

Retuneable hardware synths / keyboards:
http://www.microtonal-synthesis.com/micro_af.html (click on the other letters as well on the op of the page for the rest of the alphabetical list)

This page features another list of both hardware synths and software synths / samplers etc.
Also this is software that will allow you to retune standard synths / keyboards etc by realtime midi pitch bend messages (though this can be a bit of a hassle and uses up a new midi channel for each note of polyphony and this doesn't work with everything)
http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/

> I've created a golden ratio-based scale I'd like to play on a > keyboard. Are there any keyboards available for a reasonable price > that allow me to tune each key separately by specifying either a > frequency or a cents value? If so, exactly how is it done? Do you > need a computer connection with the proper software?
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there are three keyboard mappings of a Fibonacci series taken out to 36 places by Erv Wilson in this file
http://www.anaphoria.com/fib36.PDF
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