Hi everybody!

I´m new on this list and new to alt. tunings as well. It's nice to
see that there are a lot of people involved in other things than
12,equal.
Anyway, all of you have gone through the painstaking transition and
now it's my turn.
I have found some software that allow nonequal skales but not non12
(pro52, FM7). But I feel it's rather cumbersome, using them. I bought
a Fatar SL88 asw controller and because of the keys and would like to
use it. What software/techniques do you use?
Pitchbend? doesn't it destroy the attack?
How do you learn to think in the new scales?
Phew, lots of questions, but truelly, I appreciate all help.

Have a good and just(bad joke) day

In-Reply-To: <a4aq7h+ci3h@eGroups.com>
irrim wrote:

> I�m new on this list and new to alt. tunings as well. It's nice to
> see that there are a lot of people involved in other things than
> 12,equal.
> Anyway, all of you have gone through the painstaking transition and
> now it's my turn.
> I have found some software that allow nonequal skales but not non12
> (pro52, FM7). But I feel it's rather cumbersome, using them. I bought
> a Fatar SL88 asw controller and because of the keys and would like to
> use it. What software/techniques do you use?

Hello iirim!

See <http://www.microtonalsynthesis.com/> for a list of synthesizers
(mostly hardware) that sport tuning, and
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala> for some software to work with
them.

> Pitchbend? doesn't it destroy the attack?

You can do. I've got some software for this at
<http://x31eq.com/software.htm> and there's also Robert
Walker's Fractal Tune Smithy, which keeps moving but a Google search
should find it. Both of these, and Scala above, are for PCs.

Pitchbends usually work fine with soft synths and wavetable soundcards,
because the internal MIDI stream isn't limited by the hardware standard.

> How do you learn to think in the new scales?

Work out a good keyboard mapping, and practice.

Graham

--- In tuning@y..., graham@m... wrote:
> > How do you learn to think in the new scales?
>
> Work out a good keyboard mapping, and practice.

Talk about distilling it down to the essence! Good one, Graham!! And
a succinct intro to the 3 most useful pieces of software as well...

Cheers,
Jon