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microtuning flute article on csound journal

🔗Brian Redfern <brianwredfern@...>

5/14/2008 7:52:34 AM

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🔗Carl Lumma <carl@...>

5/14/2008 11:57:58 PM

"Brian Redfern" <brianwredfern@...> wrote:

> I got an article in csound journal about my microtonal flute
> orchestra in csound.

Congrats!

> I used Kraig Grady's tuning, which in csound I achieve with a
> temporary ftable:
>
> gitemp ftgen 2, 0, 64, -2, 14, 2, 261.659, 60, 1.05, 1.125,
> 1.166666666666666667, 1.25, 1.3125, 1.333333333333333333, 1.4,
> 1.5, 1.575, 1.6875, 1.75, 1.875, 1.96875, 2
>
> Which of Kraig's scales is this? Its the one that comes with Scala.

I looks roughly like

(21/20 9/8 7/6 5/4 21/16 4/3 7/5 3/2 52/33 27/16 7/4 15/8 61/31 2)

which is 14 tones if I counted right. Yes, looks like this:

! grady_14.scl
!
Kraig Grady, letter to Lou Harrison, published in 1/1 7 (1) 1991 p5.
14
!
21/20
9/8
7/6
5/4
21/16
4/3
7/5
3/2
63/40
27/16
7/4
15/8
63/32
2/1
!

-Carl

🔗Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...>

5/15/2008 1:41:41 AM

weren't you playing with the Centaur tuning i thought? i can't tell off hand from these numbers.
Thanks for the mention though!

/^_,',',',_ //^ /Kraig Grady_ ^_,',',',_
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_'''''''_ ^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
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Brian Redfern wrote:
>
> I got an article in csound journal about my microtonal flute orchestra > in csound. I used Kraig Grady's tuning, which in csound I achieve with > a temporary ftable:
>
> gitemp ftgen 2, 0, 64, -2, 14, 2, 261.659, 60, 1.05, 1.125, \
>
> 1.166666666666666667, 1.25, 1.3125, 1.333333333333333333, 1.4, \
> 1.5, 1.575, 1.6875, 1.75, 1.875, 1.96875, 2
>
> Which of Kraig's scales is this? Its the one that comes with Scala.
> >
>
> http://www.csounds.com/journal/issue8/ > <http://www.csounds.com/journal/issue8/>
>

🔗Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...>

5/15/2008 1:48:31 AM

Thanks for the correction Carl!
It is actually the centaur tuning with two added notes, but was formed by a different method.
I had a little run on 14 tone scales at one point. Not an easy number to get an MOS or constant structure

/^_,',',',_ //^ /Kraig Grady_ ^_,',',',_
_'''''''_ ^North/Western Hemisphere: North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>

_'''''''_ ^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria <http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/>

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Carl Lumma wrote:
>
> "Brian Redfern" <brianwredfern@...> wrote:
>
> > I got an article in csound journal about my microtonal flute
> > orchestra in csound.
>
> Congrats!
>
> > I used Kraig Grady's tuning, which in csound I achieve with a
> > temporary ftable:
> >
> > gitemp ftgen 2, 0, 64, -2, 14, 2, 261.659, 60, 1.05, 1.125,
> > 1.166666666666666667, 1.25, 1.3125, 1.333333333333333333, 1.4,
> > 1.5, 1.575, 1.6875, 1.75, 1.875, 1.96875, 2
> >
> > Which of Kraig's scales is this? Its the one that comes with Scala.
>
> I looks roughly like
>
> (21/20 9/8 7/6 5/4 21/16 4/3 7/5 3/2 52/33 27/16 7/4 15/8 61/31 2)
>
> which is 14 tones if I counted right. Yes, looks like this:
>
> ! grady_14.scl
> !
> Kraig Grady, letter to Lou Harrison, published in 1/1 7 (1) 1991 p5.
> 14
> !
> 21/20
> 9/8
> 7/6
> 5/4
> 21/16
> 4/3
> 7/5
> 3/2
> 63/40
> 27/16
> 7/4
> 15/8
> 63/32
> 2/1
> !
>
> -Carl
>
>

🔗Charles Lucy <lucy@...>

5/15/2008 8:40:49 AM

New tuning and metromone application/program sounds and Hz values to the nearest cent.
Music Assistant.
Perfect for quick microtonal results.
It fires up fast and provides a convenient way to get quick references.
It's a freebie, yet sufficiently useful to send the developer a donation

Mac OSX version:
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Windows XP version:
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Charles Lucy
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