Re:[tuning] adaptive tuning - John A deLaubenfels approach

John wrote

>Yes. I had better real-time adaptive tuning going on the NeXT (though
>still very far from ideal). JI Relay is very primitive in its tuning
>choices, and tends to change the tuning too often. I tossed JI Relay
>off in the first two months after joining the list in March 1999, and
>since then have focused on retuning complete sequence files in
>non-real-time.

What exactly is 'NeXT' ?

I'm always interested in any software synth or hardware based instrument
that could tune adaptively.

Pitch palette can't actually do realtime tuning except by selecting tonic
roots. It has a feature called the hanger button that only works on
'Justonic's' inhouse synth which is a prototype for a commercial instrument
they wanted to release. They have not done so because the bank would not
lend them the money ! They have said they are trying to encourage
commercial manufacturers to adopt the option but as yet their have been no
takers.

Justin White

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> What exactly is 'NeXT' ?

It's my alma mater! It was a company founded by Steve Jobs in 1985, which for 10 years or so produced "black cubes" and other spiffy hardware, with DSP chips on board; the OS was Unix-based and very delightful. There were some good algorithmic music/sound tools for it, and people still use this platform for some purposes. The NeXT hardware is all now VERY VERY out of date, slow, and unsupported.

There is a new release of some of the "Music Kit" software originally from NeXT, now maintained and enhanced by CCRMA at Stanford, and there is ongoing development. See http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/musickit-announce

Rick