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Project Retune: 2nd phase.

🔗John A. deLaubenfels <jadl@xxxxxx.xxxx>

9/13/1999 10:33:44 AM

I've just posted new, improved retunings of Beethoven's Pathetique
Sonata on my web site at http://www.idcomm.com/personal/jadl . Many
of the "glitches" in the original have been detected and removed (and,
with less frenzied retuning motion, the files are also a LOT smaller!).
As before, there are three choices:

be-ps-08.mid As originally recorded by Bunji Hisamori
be-ps-08z5.mid Retuned to 5-limit (sevenths tuned 16/9 of root).
be-ps-08z7.mid Retuned to 7-limit (sevenths tuned 7/4 of root).

I'm not going to claim this is the best that can be done - the
refinement process can go on indefinitely - but to my ears this is good
stuff! I'm waiting for permission to post some wonderful Brahms
sequences by the same artist, including piano sonatas 1, 2, and 3, and
I'm still open to tune other midi files (single voice, though several
tracks in is OK).

I'll post info about the algorithms I'm using if there is interest.
Keep in mind they're still evolving on the edges.

JdL