Re: Perfect tuning

It's not absolutely true that modern electronic musical instruments let you
produce a tone with any tuning and any harmonic content. As far as I can
tell, the tuning accuracy of most synths hovers around 1 part in 1000. If
you are using wave table synthesis, then the tuning accuracy will also vary
according to what voice you are using.

I understand that C-Sound is much more accurate, but I haven't verified that
personally.

Marion

>From: Mckyyy@aol.com
>
>It's not absolutely true that modern electronic musical instruments let you
>produce a tone with any tuning and any harmonic content. As far as I can
>tell, the tuning accuracy of most synths hovers around 1 part in 1000....
>I understand that C-Sound is much more accurate, but I haven't verified that
>personally.
>
Pitch resolution in Csound is generally very good, though the frequency
output of associated analysis programs such as HETRO and PVANAL may be
coarse. Frequencies in cps format are represented by floating point
variables in Csound, which on most systems means that the difference
between 20 hz and the next highest representable frequency is only about
0.00021 cents.

Bill

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