The mystery of Michael S. tunings continue

The numbers after the links indicates full downloads for so far this month.

(the link depends on where I posted the file - its the same file)

http://micro.soonlabel.com/phiter2/phiter-rev-synth.mp3 118

http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/micro/phiter2/phiter-rev-synth.mp3 1830

This is about a factor of 10 greater downloads than my next popular piece.

Michael - you had a 12 note tuning you wanted me to try - can you post that
again - it got lost in the shuffle.

Chris

Thanks Chris....

And wow....good grief...over 1000 downloads?! That's especially a lot for a scale that's been superseded by the Silver-section scale and now by a modified Ptolemic scale, both designed to improve consonance with harmonic-series-overtone instruments.
Also to note, it turns out Cameron has been using similar "sectional mirroring" to what I used to create the PHI-ter scale (and the Silver sections scale) all along, but in JI (or only slightly de-tuned from JI) tunings. Between the downloads and his own success with helping me apply mirroring to optimize and modify Ptolemic-interval-based scales, I have no doubt the "mirroring" notes around simple ratios such as the octave, fifth, and square root of 2 plays a huge role in helping the brain organize tones regardless of if the scale is "JI-friendly/compliant" or not.

Far as the 12-tone...you know I don't even think I remember with one I've done a whole bunch of those...but the one I think you are talking about is a 14-tone tuning I was bugging everyone about (because I'm still convinced it's very useful), is that correct?
The 14-tone is basically a Ptolemy Homalon based scale doubled up and using the mirroring technique to make it sound more "together". IMVHO, it is the easier scale to compose with I have ever tried (even easier than Wilson's Six Hexanies scale and the 6th-12th harmonic series partials).
As such is virtually impossible to make out-of-tune sounding chords with (the way to add dissonance is simply to add more notes and more notes closer together.

Some of you make thing I'm a bit crazy with my "scale which is a huge chord and is almost impossible to hit a sour note in" obsession...but think about it....people's main complaint about micro-tuning is "12TET is hard enough"...and what's easier to play in (at least in theory) than a scale where there is virtually no way to go out of tune? I hope this will prove to be a good way to get non-micro-tonal musicians interested in composing micro-tonal music.

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From: Chris Vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...>
To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 10:39:07 AM
Subject: [tuning] The mystery of Michael S. tunings continue

The numbers after the links indicates full downloads for so far this month.

(the link depends on where I posted the file - its the same file)

http://micro. soonlabel. com/phiter2/ phiter-rev- synth.mp3 118

http://clones. soonlabel. com/public/ micro/phiter2/ phiter-rev- synth.mp3 1830

This is about a factor of 10 greater downloads than my next popular piece.

Michael - you had a 12 note tuning you wanted me to try - can you post that again - it got lost in the shuffle.

Chris

Almost 2,000 Mike - 1830 + 118 = 1948 downloads

Well, then, can you pass along the 14 note tuning?

I tried searching the tuning list for it w/o any luck.

Chris

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Michael <djtrancendance@...> wrote:

>
>
> Thanks Chris....
>
> And wow....good grief...over 1000 downloads?! That's especially a lot
> for a scale that's been superseded by the Silver-section scale and now by a
> modified Ptolemic scale, both designed to improve consonance with
> harmonic-series-overtone instruments.
>