Another generalized keyboard

http://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=home

found it in NAMM's oddities website

http://www.otheroom.com/namm/techno.html

Re: the c-thru Natural Keyboard
http://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=home

It's not microtonal out of the box, but plug in an H-Pi Tuning Box and a tone module, and
bang! - you've got a 192 key velocity sensitive microtonal synthesizer.

Aaron Hunt
H-Pi Instruments
http://www.h-pi.com

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Alex Pi <alexpi@...> wrote:
>
> http://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=home
>
> found it in NAMM's oddities website
>
> http://www.otheroom.com/namm/techno.html
>

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Andrew Hunt" <aahunt@...> wrote:
> Re: the c-thru Natural Keyboard
> http://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=home
>
> It's not microtonal out of the box, but plug in an H-Pi Tuning
> Box and a tone module, and bang! - you've got a 192 key velocity
> sensitive microtonal synthesizer.

How did you find out it has 192 keys (did you count them?)?
I didn't see this info.

Also, are you sure the keys are wired separately? Does it
send on multiple MIDI channels (limit is 128 notes / channel)?

And I note the USB port is for firmware only, not MIDI.
And I guess this would be my biggest criticism of the
Tuning Box... MIDI cables are such a pain, and so slow.

-Carl

Yes, this number 192 is correct but actually quite misleading, because the c-thru
duplicates MIDI notes as you hint here. On the other hand, only 6 of the 211 keys per
octave are duplicates in the default JND tuning of the Tonal Plexus, and in fact even these
are not MIDI duplicates. For a closer look, see http://www.h-pi.com/TPX28keyboard.html

Aaron Hunt
H-Pi Instruments

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@...> wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Andrew Hunt" <aahunt@> wrote:
> > Re: the c-thru Natural Keyboard
> > http://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=home
> >
> > It's not microtonal out of the box, but plug in an H-Pi Tuning
> > Box and a tone module, and bang! - you've got a 192 key velocity
> > sensitive microtonal synthesizer.
>
> How did you find out it has 192 keys (did you count them?)?
> I didn't see this info.
>
> Also, are you sure the keys are wired separately? Does it
> send on multiple MIDI channels (limit is 128 notes / channel)?
>
> And I note the USB port is for firmware only, not MIDI.
> And I guess this would be my biggest criticism of the
> Tuning Box... MIDI cables are such a pain, and so slow.
>
> -Carl
>

> Yes, this number 192 is correct but actually quite misleading,
> because the c-thru duplicates MIDI notes as you hint here.

Do you know what their scheme is?

-Carl