RE : soundcards

Hey Darren,

You should check out the Yamaha cards. They're XG compatible.
12-note tunings, -64to+63 cents.

- Drew

<<You should check out the Yamaha cards. They're XG compatible.
2-note tunings, -64to+63 cents.

- Drew
>>

Do anyone know which one of the yamaha cards are microtunable? Anyone has any
experience with the card in question?

This seems to be the least expensive way for me to compose songs with western
instruments that use ethnic tuning. I'm currently using Mellosoftron to develop
"tuned" patches, but this process is labor intensive and the playback is CPU
intensive. Was thinking about purchasing the Kurweill 2500, but that thing is
big bucks.

Thanks
Lewis

At 10:56 AM 2/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>From: Lewis_Jimmy@hq.navsea.navy.mil
>
><<You should check out the Yamaha cards. They're XG compatible.
>2-note tunings, -64to+63 cents.
>
>- Drew
>>>
>
>Do anyone know which one of the yamaha cards are microtunable? Anyone has any
>experience with the card in question?
>
>This seems to be the least expensive way for me to compose songs with western
>instruments that use ethnic tuning. I'm currently using Mellosoftron to
develop
>"tuned" patches, but this process is labor intensive and the playback is CPU
>intensive. Was thinking about purchasing the Kurweill 2500, but that thing is
>big bucks.
>
>Thanks
>Lewis
>
If you want to skip MIDI and write directly to WAV (or AIFF, etc.) files,
go to
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Man/c_front.html and get CSound. You can design
your own instruments (or download designed instruments) and write text scores
where you can specify pitch to floating-point accuracy in Hz. But be aware
that
wave files get big fast, like about 4 MB per minute...