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Partch-43 soundfont

🔗touchedchuckk <BadMuthaHubbard@hotmail.com>

3/22/2004 1:44:34 PM

I've painstakingly created a .sf2 file for MIDI with the pitch bends for Partch's
43-tone system built in. I use piano roll view and have a chart of all the ratios
and which "notes" correspond to them. It's a single reed sound from an organ
made up of several sounds, so this sample alone is not so reedy. I sampled
the original pitch bend sounds from one single sample, so the ET that was
being bent was exact.
I'd like to share it if anyone is interested. The file is about 35 Mb, and I don't
have a website. I'll send you a CD if you want.
One thing, though, I haven't had time yet to set the loops on the samples, so
each note only lasts 3 seconds or so.
Works great in Cakewalk. By next semester I will be well on my way to
submitting a JI composition for my jury.

Anyone have recommendations for decent retunable synths? I want:
touch-sensitive keys
88 keys
retunable note for note, not restricted to octaves. Like it'll let me tell it what Hz
for each key or something.

That's about all my requirements. It doesn't have to have its own sounds,
though that would be nice. Doesn't have to have a sequencer. I've never
bought a decent keyboard, so I'm kind of in the dark.

Thanks.
Chuckk