Cakewalk & microtonality

[Ursell. TD 122-22:]
>
>
> 2.About CAKEWALK Pro Audio:I went to a shop to check this one out, but
they
> couldn't find anything of the description I had.
> Sure, there were many "catch phrases", and jargon in the Cakewalk
brochure,
> but we couldn't figure this one out....
>
> What I want to know is:Does Cakewalk have a "humanizer" on it?
>
> What I mean by this is, an algorithm, that "roughens up" tight tracks
just a
> tad, in terms of velocity, pitch, time stretch, duration and position.
> I feel that this would be best done with a "bell shaped curve", or
normal
> distribution, i.e.most of the time the hits of a programmed drum loop
are
> within 1 std of perfect timing, very rarely they are within 1.5-2 Std
of
> perfectly on time, almost never they are in 3std of perfect time ect...
> It would also be good to have the "feels programmable", whereby you
could
> alter the normal distributions width, height, and shape, and also apply
> other feels to other drum loops.

I use the old Cakewalk 2.01 Professional for Windows (pre-Pro-Audio).
Cakewalk has CAL (Cakewalk Programming Language) built into it,
and there are many programs available on the web to do just the
things you're asking.

Funny you should ask this now, because I've just been working
on a little program to input JI ratios or non-12 ET degrees
step-time into Cakewalk, with CAL inserting the proper
MIDI-note and pitch-bend into the file. I'll announce
it as soon as its de-bugged.

-monz
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> Sounds good Joe Let me know when

Pat Pagano

>
> Funny you should ask this now, because I've just been working
> on a little program to input JI ratios or non-12 ET degrees
> step-time into Cakewalk, with CAL inserting the proper
> MIDI-note and pitch-bend into the file. I'll announce
> it as soon as its de-bugged.
>
> -monz
> |\=/|.-"""-. Joseph L. Monzo...................monz@juno.com
> /6 6\ \ http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
> =\_Y_/= (_ ;\ c/o Sonic Arts, PO Box 620027, San Diego, CA, USA
> _U//_/-/__/// | "...I broke thru the lattice barrier..." |
> /monz\ ((jgs; | - Erv Wilson |
>
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