Relay Retuned Roland Gr-20

Using a program called "Fractal Tune Smithy" I can play my Roland GR-20 in different tuning once I set the GR-20 to "local off".

So what happens is I play my Fender Mustang => GR-20 converts to "normal" midi => GR-20 sends midi notes to computer => FTS then adds pitch bend commands to the midi notes to change the tuning => FTS sends retuned midi back out of the computer to the GR-20 => The GR-20 plays the retuned midi data. All of this happens with no noticeable lag and is as response (once set up right) as playing the GR-20 normally.

In this case the chosen tuning is 17 equal divisions of the octave and these are excerpts from an improvisation / exploration of 17 EDO.

Probably not of interest too much unless you've not tried 17 edo

MP3 Dizzy Heights of Ego

http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=174

MP3 Plowing Dust

http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=173

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "christopherv" <chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:
> Using a program called "Fractal Tune Smithy" I can play my Roland GR-20 in different tuning once I set the GR-20 to "local off".

I think it is only appropriate here to give a shout to Robert Walker, the man behind FTS. Robert is a long-time member of both this list and MMM, and has done boatloads of work to help the microtonal community create sounds and music with his software. Generous to a fault, and always obliging when you're stuck on something, I wish he was around more. A genuinely nice guy, and a real positive element of the off-shoots of the Mills tuning lists.

Even though I hammered him relentlessly over the years about trying to get some semblance of a modern and useable UI on the stuff, he never complained!

Robert, your efforts continue to bear musical fruit...

Cheers,
Jon