On coming back....

I have been away from the Tuning list for a few years, but recently
rejoined after listening to a collection of tapes I was sent by Brian
McLaren last century. I remain impressed with his works. Also I
listened again to a tape on 88CET tuning by Gary Morrison, a tuning I
used once in 1998.

So are these people still active? What have I missed in the last
couple of decades? Anyone able to fill me in?
==John ffitch

On 28/08/14 14:49, john ffitch jpff@... [TUNING] wrote:
> I have been away from the Tuning list for a few years, but recently
> rejoined after listening to a collection of tapes I was sent by Brian
> McLaren last century. I remain impressed with his works. Also I
> listened again to a tape on 88CET tuning by Gary Morrison, a tuning I
> used once in 1998.
>
> So are these people still active? What have I missed in the last
> couple of decades? Anyone able to fill me in?

Of recent years, the crowd has moved to Facebook. I can send you an invitation if you want to follow us.

Brian McLaren has been sighted recently, but has unfortunately grown, at least online, from an enthusiast of microtonal liberation to an opponent of any connection between music and mathematics. At the same time, we have been filling out the theory of regular temperaments, with a menagerie of different tunings of different consonance sets. There's a wiki that does its best to explain the theory:

http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/

There's also been a continuing improvement in soft synths with tuning support, as well as notation programs and other utilities, so that more people can make differently tuned music. Things have been happening.

Graham

Hello all,

I’m new to the group and saw Graham’s recent post remarking that this crowd has largely moved to Facebook. I’d be interested participating wherever the action is…should I be joining one or more of the “xenharmonic” groups?

Kind regards,

-Neal

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Neal B Johnson
njohn@...
mobile: 202-830-6127

On 31/08/14 15:09, Neal Johnson njohn@... [TUNING] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I�m new to the group and saw Graham�s recent post remarking that this crowd has largely moved to Facebook. I�d be interested participating wherever the action is�should I be joining one or more of the �xenharmonic� groups?

Yes, try "The Xenharmonic Alliance II".

Graham

Graham Breed wrote:
> Of recent years, the crowd has moved to Facebook.

...which I find a little sad. I respect that there are people who want to
talk about alternate tunings on facebook, but if the vast majority is almost
exclusively there, people who refuse to join facebook are excluded from
even following the discussions.
No hard feelings, I just wish more people were interested in open
discussions, preferably somewhere where only a minimal amount of
personal information is collected.

> There's also been a continuing improvement in soft synths with tuning
> support, as well as notation programs and other utilities, so that more
> people can make differently tuned music. Things have been happening.

...speaking of which, are there any decent notation programs or synths
by now that support linear or planar notation, or microtonal guitar tabs?

- Gedankenwelt

On 01/09/14 21:53, gedankenwelt94@... [TUNING] wrote:

> ...speaking of which, are there any decent notation programs or synths
> by now that support linear or planar notation, or microtonal guitar tabs?

LilyPond can has near-native support for linear notations. If you're interested on one particular notation, I can help you set it up. The result will still be LilyPond, which works differently to graphical editors, but has an active community behind it.

MicroABC also does a fair bit if you like ABC.

Mus2 is a commercial notation editor built around microtonal support. I don't know the details.

There's been some work extending MuseScore as well.

Any synthesizer with tuning table support can do any tuning you throw at it. I use ZynAddSubFX these days. With LilyPond, I use timidity, because it supports the parts of the MIDI Tuning Standard that give arbitrary pitches, so there's no need to set up the tables.

Graham

Thanks for the list, Graham! :)

So far, Mus2 is may favorite:
I was able to set up an Orwell[9] notation with chroma accidentals on a 7-line staff.
The "Thicken one of every 2 lines" option for staves is pretty useful.
Said option could even be used to mimic a Tripod staff, just assign arbitrary
"dummy notes" to the thin lines, and ignore them. ;)

LilyPond is probably much more flexible, but I'm mainly looking for a composition
tool where I don't have to compile everything if I want to know what a part sounds
like after modifying a single note.

I became interested in MuseScore when I read that it has plugin support. However,
I assume it will be awkward to work with notations based on scales with a number
of notes other than 7; if that's the case, I'm not interested.

-Gedankenwelt

Now I know where everyone went! I'll check it out myself sometime soon -- when I get time

Jay

Quoting "Graham Breed gbreed@... [TUNING]" <TUNING@yahoogroups.com>:

> On 31/08/14 15:09, Neal Johnson njohn@... [TUNING] wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm new to the group and saw Graham's recent post remarking that >> this crowd has largely moved to Facebook. I'd be interested >> participating wherever the action is...should I be joining one or >> more of the "xenharmonic" groups?
>
> Yes, try "The Xenharmonic Alliance II".
>
>
> Graham
>
>
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