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65 note scale chat

🔗Zhang2323@xxx.xxx

8/19/1999 8:46:21 PM

Zhang2323: I am researchin' synths capable of unequal Just Intonation
scales, esp'ly i.e. Indonesian 'Pelog' & this killer 65 note to octave scale
I have come across
Below92Mhz: wow now that's deep...your talkin alien lingo! :)
Zhang2323: *musical mad scientist gigglefit*
Below92Mhz: it does sound madly scentific
Zhang2323: the 65 scale is quite alien sounding
Zhang2323: I like it a lot
Zhang2323: I wanna use a insectoid-like sitar/tambura/digeridoo-like sound
in this scale
Below92Mhz: hmmm..you mean you can't play route 66 on a 65 scale
Below92Mhz: insectoid (size?) instruments????
Zhang2323: well the "normal" 12 Equal Tempered scale has 12 notes/tones
equidistanced to the octave.... the 65 has 53 harmonic cyclic intervals
unequally spaced to octave PLUS 12 quartertones
Zhang2323: insectoid as in "buzzing & alien-like"
Below92Mhz: oh ok..I was envisoning teeny tiny instruments ...now I
understand ..soundlike
Zhang2323: dense scale, dense timbral sound
Zhang2323: lotta complex effects possible