Logic 7 microtuning capability (How it works)

Having just installed Logic 7 this afternoon on my G5 dual, I can now
report on how the Tuning Settings are set up.
For those of you with the manual, details are on page 630 Chapter 21 of
the reference manual.
They have put the tuning control in the Song Preferences and where are
about 100 fixed tuning types on a pulldown menu.
You select the tuning and the "Root Key" that you wish to use, and the
data is then copied into the user control panel, which shows the change
from 12tET +/- to the nearest 1/10th of a cent for each note in one
octave.

There is also a Hermode Tuning where you can select the type "3/5
adaptive" etc. and adjust the "Depth".

It looks as though someone has taken lotsa time and trouble to design
this (pity about the only 1/10 cent resolution in the control panel).

You will find LucyTuning named as:

"John Harrison (1775), almost 3/10-comma, third = 1200/pi".

which I am sure will please the historical (anti-commercial) purists.

For the more adventurous users you will need to tweak the controls to
use the more dissonant assignments.

Maybe we are now getting to the level of acceptance where Joe Public's
ears are becoming accustomed to other than 12tET.

Microtuning is now reaching "critical mass".

After all Logic has now become, the most important platform for
professional, film, and commercial music production.

BTW: New LucyTuning commercial project underway:---

http://www.lullabycards.com

new mp3. wav, and video for the curious.

Time to start making some serious £$€¥ to pay for my equipment;
New greeting card designs for lullabies welcomed;-)

Charles Lucy - lucy@harmonics.com (LucyScaleDevelopments)
------------ Promoting global harmony through LucyTuning -------
for information on LucyTuning go to: http://www.harmonics.com/lucy/
for LucyTuned Lullabies go to http://www.lucytune.com
http://www.lucytune.co.uk or http://www.lullabies.co.uk

Hi Charles!

>You select the tuning and the "Root Key" that you wish to use, and the
>data is then copied into the user control panel, which shows the change
>from 12tET +/- to the nearest 1/10th of a cent for each note in one
>octave.

This raises three important questions:

1. Does this mean it's limited to 12-tone/octave tunings?

2. Can deviations from 12-tET be greater than 50 (or 100) cents?

3. Do these tunings really effect all softsynths in composition?
How does it work? Through MIDI?

>It looks as though someone has taken lotsa time and trouble to design
>this (pity about the only 1/10 cent resolution in the control panel).

1/10 of a cent is more than enough for me!

>After all Logic has now become, the most important platform for
>professional, film, and commercial music production.

That's true.

-Carl

I haven't received my copy of Logic 7 yet. I'm assuming this only affects midi tracks, but with some of the new audio pitch shifting technologies such as the new pitch correction plug in in logic it makes me wonder. Is it indeed only midi or does it have the capability to tune audio tracks as well, maybe working in conjunction with the new plug in?

Matthew