To Torsten.

Counterpointer appears to be restricted to twelve notes at a time. The
inbuilt tunings operate using the computer's soundcard. Even with
external midi it is still restricted to ANY twelve notes at a time.
There are probably clever ways of using two or more external keyboards
in combination with midi files saved from Counterpointer and put into a
sequencer program where different midi files are routed to separately
tuned keyboards. But this is a lot of work. I see Counterpointer as a
way of conducting small scale sound harmonic experiments using any
twelve notes from any equal temperament and in any note order as played
by my external Kurzweil. The manual is online for people to check
before they buy. I bought it by mail order which took less than three
weeks.

On Jul 15, 2008, at 2:35 AM, robert thomas martin wrote:
> Counterpointer appears to be restricted to twelve notes at a time. The
> inbuilt tunings operate using the computer's soundcard. Even with
> external midi it is still restricted to ANY twelve notes at a time.
> There are probably clever ways of using two or more external keyboards
> in combination with midi files saved from Counterpointer and put > into a
> sequencer program where different midi files are routed to separately
> tuned keyboards. But this is a lot of work. I see Counterpointer as a
> way of conducting small scale sound harmonic experiments using any
> twelve notes from any equal temperament and in any note order as > played
> by my external Kurzweil. The manual is online for people to check
> before they buy. I bought it by mail order which took less than three
> weeks.
>
Thanks for explaining.

BTW: in Strasheela you can define your own counterpoint rules using more than 12 pitches per octave (e.g., counterpoint in 31 ET, or 72 ET), and let the system then generate music accordingly. You could output your results, e.g., into Csound scores or MIDI files (e.g., distributing the pitches over multiple channel). For 12 ET, there exist examples for two voice species counterpoint and for florid counterpoint which you can use as a starting point.

But then again, Strasheela's user interface is a programming language -- not everyone's cup of tea :)

Best
Torsten

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