Terpstra keyboard is here!

Johnny Reinhard's collaboration with Siemen Terpstra, the Bosanquet-
based Terpstra keyboard is here at Queens College. I played on it
today. Professor Joel Mandelbaum is the custodian of this
creation. It's mostly working, except somehow one of the five
circuit boards got damaged in transit, so one octave of a 55-equal
design does not work right now. That will be fixed.

Mandelbaum has it working with Scala with generic computer
synthesizers at present, although I believe it can be configured
with external modules. Or, we could consider software synths that
read Scala files somewhere down the line.

In any case, the newest version of Scala 2.22, makes it possible to
use multi-channel mappings and Dylan Horvath in Canada did a correct
mapping for 55-equal. So we basically had a working synth for this
temperament, minus the one missing (regrettably) octave.

Other mappings are possible and Horvath is to, supposedly, provide
those in the future.

Among the personages experiencing this keyboard for the first time
were Joel Mandelbaum, electronic microtonal composer maven Elodie
Lauten, piano virtuoso Joshua Pierce, maestro Johnny Reinhard,
composer and electronic wizard Hubert Howe and yours truly, humble
servant of microtonality who still seemed at times to be the only
person able to adequately distinguish midi in from midi out.

In any case, all went well, and we will be on soon to further
explorations with this equipment....

Joseph Pehrson

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@...> wrote:
>
> Johnny Reinhard's collaboration with Siemen Terpstra, the Bosanquet-
> based Terpstra keyboard is here at Queens College.

Wonderful, wonderful news. Any word on production availability?

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@...> wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@> wrote:
> >
> > Johnny Reinhard's collaboration with Siemen Terpstra, the
Bosanquet-
> > based Terpstra keyboard is here at Queens College.
>
> Wonderful, wonderful news. Any word on production availability?
>
> -Carl
>

***We'll have to wait for Johnny's word on that one, Carl...

Johnny?

> > > Johnny Reinhard's collaboration with Siemen Terpstra, the
> > > Bosanquet-based Terpstra keyboard is here at Queens College.
> >
> > Wonderful, wonderful news. Any word on production availability?
>
> ***We'll have to wait for Johnny's word on that one, Carl...

Here's hoping (it ships before I blow the money on something
else. :)

-Carl

on 7/15/06 10:30 PM, Carl Lumma <clumma@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>> Johnny Reinhard's collaboration with Siemen Terpstra, the
>>>> Bosanquet-based Terpstra keyboard is here at Queens College.
>>>
>>> Wonderful, wonderful news. Any word on production availability?
>>
>> ***We'll have to wait for Johnny's word on that one, Carl...
>
> Here's hoping (it ships before I blow the money on something
> else. :)

So *that's* the reaon I had the sudden impulse to make sure my softsynth can
handle input from two-dimensional keyboards.

Hoping with you. (But the money is another thing.)

-Kurt

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@...> wrote:
>
> Among the personages experiencing this keyboard for the first time
> were Joel Mandelbaum, electronic microtonal composer maven Elodie
> Lauten, piano virtuoso Joshua Pierce, maestro Johnny Reinhard,
> composer and electronic wizard Hubert Howe and yours truly, humble
> servant of microtonality who still seemed at times to be the only
> person able to adequately distinguish midi in from midi out.

I hope someone took some photos of this historic microtonal event!

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@...> wrote:
>
> > > > Johnny Reinhard's collaboration with Siemen Terpstra, the
> > > > Bosanquet-based Terpstra keyboard is here at Queens College.
> > >
> > > Wonderful, wonderful news. Any word on production availability?
> >
> > ***We'll have to wait for Johnny's word on that one, Carl...
>
> Here's hoping (it ships before I blow the money on something
> else. :)
>
> -Carl
>

You want to be the first person to officially buy a copy
of Tonescape?

(... you almost were already, a year ago!)

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software

> You want to be the first person to officially buy a copy
> of Tonescape?

Does that mean it's for sale?

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@...> wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@> wrote:
> >
> > Among the personages experiencing this keyboard for the first
time
> > were Joel Mandelbaum, electronic microtonal composer maven
Elodie
> > Lauten, piano virtuoso Joshua Pierce, maestro Johnny Reinhard,
> > composer and electronic wizard Hubert Howe and yours truly,
humble
> > servant of microtonality who still seemed at times to be the
only
> > person able to adequately distinguish midi in from midi out.
>
>
> I hope someone took some photos of this historic microtonal event!
>
>
> -monz
> http://tonalsoft.com
> Tonescape microtonal music software
>

***Hi Monz!

I took a glorious cellphone photo of the keyboard which is now in
the PHOTOS section of this forum...

best,

Joe

> > I hope someone took some photos of this historic microtonal event!
>
> I took a glorious cellphone photo of the keyboard which is now in
> the PHOTOS section of this forum...

DUUUUUUUUUUUUDE!

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@...> wrote:
>
> > > I hope someone took some photos of this historic microtonal
event!
> >
> > I took a glorious cellphone photo of the keyboard which is now in
> > the PHOTOS section of this forum...
>
> DUUUUUUUUUUUUDE!
>
> -Carl
>

***It didn't come out too badly, considering it's 1.something
mexapixels...

JP

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@...> wrote:
>
> > You want to be the first person to officially buy a copy
> > of Tonescape?
>
> Does that mean it's for sale?

No, not yet ... i was just kidding, because last year when
i visited you, you were ready to pay for it then. But you
can certainly be a tester.

I'm busting my hump finishing the film score for
"Darks and Whites", which has to be finished by Monday
morning. After that, when i can breathe again, i'll talk
to Chris about getting you set up.

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software