Microtuning Hardware

Sorry not to have responded to the request for revelation of microtuning
hardware when it was made. I've been busy with Y2K and software projects.

I am using a Ztar mini-ZX from Starr Labs to control Native Instruments
Generator. I have developed a macro in Generator to switch between twelve
octave based tunings of twelve tones each based on reception of MIDI note
values 0 to 11. I have the twelve touch pads on the Ztar set to send the
corresponding MIDI notes. The macro is built to hold the last value until a
new value is sent so I don't have to keep pressing the pad on the Ztar.
Later on I will use a Roland or Fatar pedalboard to switch tunings.

Currently the tunings I am experimenting with are Ellis' Duodene:
1/1 16/15 9/8 6/5 5/4 4/3 45/32 3/2 8/5 5/3 9/5 15/8

and

1/1 15/14 7/6 5/4 21/16 4/3 10/7 3/2 5/3 7/4 15/8 40/21

and some of their transpositions.

Ztars are guitar shaped velocity sensitive keyboards intended for
guitarists.
The intent is to enable guitarists to control MIDI devices without going
through a glitchy pitch-to-MIDI conversion process.
For more info on Ztar go to:
http://www.catalog.com/starrlab/

Generator is a software synthesizer (construction kit) with excellent
(floating point) pitch resolution which runs on Wintel and Mac. They
include both versions on the same CD-ROM.
For more info on Generator go to:
http://www.native-instruments.com/

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Fred Kohler, 206 Raynor Ave, Victoria, BC, Canada V9A 3A2
phone:(250)388-7918 email:fred_kohler@bc.sympatico.ca
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