analog synths and microtones

Hello
Please anyone interested in analog synths and microtones take a look
at http://www.bigbriar.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.100.exe/spec/251.html?L+scstore+vnsc8732ff6cc66c+974686909 and tell me if you can use the control proccessor to get equal tempered scales with more tones than 12 .Is that a similar device
with the proccessor from synthesizers.com?
Thanks
Alex P.
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>Please anyone interested in analog synths and microtones take a look
>at > >http://www.bigbriar.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.100.exe/spec/251.html?L+scstore+vnsc8732ff6cc66c+974686909 >and tell me if you can use the control proccessor to get equal tempered >scales with more tones than 12 .Is that a similar device
>with the proccessor from synthesizers.com?

I don�t know anything about this particular synthesizer,but many modulars define the keyboard scaling as a kind of volume control,giving a range from large steps to almost infinitely small/many.Note that you�ll probably have to stick to the 12-tet keyboard no matter what the synth is like-unless you build a keyboard yourself,as i am planning to.Otherwise,be careful to assume that analog means it�s retunable.The Korg Polysix is auto-tuning,which i saw as a _feature_ when i bought it.The Roland SH-09 i have has a"Range Tuning"screw,which only gives a range from about 11 to 13tet.

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Hello
If I connect the general keyboards from starrlabs with any analog synthesizer via a MIDI converter what will I get?
Does the starrlab keyboard send the scales info to the oscilators or the opposite?
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--- In tuning@egroups.com, "Alexandros Papadopoulos" <alexmoog@h...>
wrote:
> Hello
> If I connect the general keyboards from starrlabs with any analog
> synthesizer via a MIDI converter what will I get?
> Does the starrlab keyboard send the scales info to the oscilators
or
the opposite?
> Thanks

Without a doubt the Starrlabs generalized keyboards are MIDI
controllers, driving synthesizers which must be micro-tunable.
Regarding ANALOG synths, you should be OK, as long as your synth
recognizes MIDI channel and note numbers. Of course the SYNTH ITSELF
has to have microtunable tuning tables. We're not talking about
"pitch bends" here or anything of the like...

http://catalog.com/starrlab/

Note that the default setting is actually 9 "piano" keyboards

>The factory-default configuration has the full keyboard mapped as 9
>'piano' keyboards of 90 keys arranged in vertical ranks. The ranks
>are tuned identically and are sent to MIDI channels 1-9.

Each 90-key "piano" keyboard is sent to a separate MIDI channel by
default.

There is "mapping" software included, which is easily programmed by
attaching the MicroZone to an external computer.

With this software, you can map EACH of the 810 keys to *ANY* MIDI
channel and note number INDIVIDUALLY.... at least that's what I'm
getting from reading this...

So, it could be possible to map the entire keyboard as one big
"continuous" scale, if one desired. (You'd even get 11
octaves of a 72-pitch scale!) However, there are other
"microzones" or smaller mapping patterns that they supply and which
can be used, as well. As long as your synth recognizes MIDI channel
and note numbers, anything is possible. That is, as long as your
SYNTH can do the tuning!

The keyboard, according to this description *IS* velocity
sensitive... but with no "aftertouch" sensitivity as yet... but it
looks like that is being implemented.

Well, surely the price is right, too. Just a little spare change
rattling around in the pocket, and it's yours for the asking! :)

($7,000; $3,000)
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