Re:softsynths

--- In tuning@egroups.com, "Vas Gardiakos" <vas@a...> wrote:
> Hello Graham and all,
>
> The Electonic Musician OCT 2000
>
> Re: OASYS sound card
>
> "For each patch, you set number of voices, voice allocation
> method, overall tuning, and other parameters. You can also
> set up microtonal scaling and key or velocity splits.
>
> I can mail you the full article if interested.
> or visit
> http://www.korg.com/

Another good software synth for microtuning seems to be the metasynth I
don't have the URL as I don't have web access at the moment but you should
be able to find it if you go to. John Lofflinks microtonal synthesis
website.

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Another good software synth for microtuning seems to be the metasynth
I
don't have the URL as I don't have web access at the moment but you
should
be able to find it if you go to.

Here it is. I use it all time.

http://www.uisoftware.com/PAGES/acceuil_meta.html

Its great for microtuning. You can use any tuning you want - scala
files are fine. You can also analyze sounds and use the harmonic
spectrum obtained as a custom tuning. I did that recently for the
earth sounds broadcast by NASA.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast19jan_1.htm

The downside is its only for Macs, and its idiosyncratic even for a
Mac. Its one of the few pieces of software I've actually read the
manual - its that good and that difficult. There is an informative
piece in Electronic Musician this month by Len Sasso (anything Len
Sasso writes is informative), and if you get the software I would
order his Wizoo manual at the same time . Doing so will save you a
lot of trouble. Also MetaSynth is only audio and basically produces
sounds which can then be arranged in MetaTracks, or any other
sequencing program.

Mary
http://www.elucida.com