AXiS-49

I am now the proud owner of an AXiS-49. This is a bit smaller than I
thought it'd be, but OK. So now the question is, how the heck do I set
this up? Put it in "selfless mode" and then use Scala to do some kind
of retuning? If I wanted to set it up based around blackwood in
15-tet, what kind of hoops would I have to jump through?

-Mike

See this page for selfless mode
http://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=spec_49-selfless
you only need to do it once.

Scala may be useful, I haven't tried it yet. I'm just
using pianoteq.

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@...> wrote:
>
> I am now the proud owner of an AXiS-49. This is a bit smaller than I
> thought it'd be, but OK. So now the question is, how the heck do I set
> this up? Put it in "selfless mode" and then use Scala to do some kind
> of retuning? If I wanted to set it up based around blackwood in
> 15-tet, what kind of hoops would I have to jump through?
>
> -Mike
>

I find turning it 90 degrees counter clock-wise in self-less mode makes the
most sense in micro tunings. You can do stuff that is well neigh impossible
on a regular keyboard.

http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=298

Chris

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@...>wrote:

>
>
> I am now the proud owner of an AXiS-49. This is a bit smaller than I
> thought it'd be, but OK. So now the question is, how the heck do I set
> this up? Put it in "selfless mode" and then use Scala to do some kind
> of retuning? If I wanted to set it up based around blackwood in
> 15-tet, what kind of hoops would I have to jump through?
>
> -Mike
>
>

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Carl Lumma <carl@...> wrote:
>
> See this page for selfless mode
> http://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=spec_49-selfless
> you only need to do it once.
>
> Scala may be useful, I haven't tried it yet. I'm just
> using pianoteq.

I have it set up in selfless mode, but now what? Is there an easy way
to define mapping, such that one axis is the large step in porcupine
and another is the small step?

I remember you had the pajara mapping, could you maybe pass that onto
me offlist? I'd like to get started with 22-equal..

-Mike

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Chris Vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:
>
> I find turning it 90 degrees counter clock-wise in self-less mode makes the most sense in micro tunings. You can do stuff that is well neigh impossible on a regular keyboard.
>
> http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=298
>
> Chris

Wow, this is interesting. I need to get this going.

-Mike

I didn't use any mapping. When turned 90 degrees counter -clockwise in
selfless mode
midi 0 (I think) is the bottom left key. From there the numbers increment
left to right by one and bottom to up by a row which is 7 midi notes.

I was talking to .... the scala author I think about making a special
addition to map specifically to an AXiS 49. I believe he has other
priorities.
Anyway - what would be awesomely cool is if someone could write a graphical
tool to be able to drag and drop a midi number to any arbitrary key on the
axis 49 and export the mapping as a kbm. This way you could tailor you
mapping to your tuning and / or composition. I imagine you could edit a kbm
by hand (I'm assuming it is a text file essentially) but doing it visually
would really speed up the process.

Glad you found the piece interesting.

Chris

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Chris Vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I find turning it 90 degrees counter clock-wise in self-less mode makes
> the most sense in micro tunings. You can do stuff that is well neigh
> impossible on a regular keyboard.
> >
> > http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=298
> >
> > Chris
>
> Wow, this is interesting. I need to get this going.
>
> -Mike
>
>

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@...> wrote:

> I have it set up in selfless mode, but now what? Is there an easy way
> to define mapping, such that one axis is the large step in porcupine
> and another is the small step?

No easy way, no. I've been doing full scale retunings.

> I remember you had the pajara mapping, could you maybe pass that
> onto me offlist? I'd like to get started with 22-equal..

I've got a much better mapping for it now. I'm making some
images for it... will post to MMM when done. -Carl

In no particular order, my thoughts:

My hope is that someone will take on making Midi Integrator
microtonal. http://www.altkeyboards.com/integrator - it's not drag and drop programming, but doing note assignment/routine via table configuration is really easy.

I like parts of the interface in relayer and may adopt them.

I plan to mention http://www.dynamictonality.com on the //www.altkeyboards.com site. You have an interesting set of tools.

Ken.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Chris Vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:
>
> I didn't use any mapping. When turned 90 degrees counter -clockwise in
> selfless mode
> midi 0 (I think) is the bottom left key. From there the numbers increment
> left to right by one and bottom to up by a row which is 7 midi notes.
>
> I was talking to .... the scala author I think about making a special
> addition to map specifically to an AXiS 49. I believe he has other
> priorities.
> Anyway - what would be awesomely cool is if someone could write a graphical
> tool to be able to drag and drop a midi number to any arbitrary key on the
> axis 49 and export the mapping as a kbm. This way you could tailor you
> mapping to your tuning and / or composition. I imagine you could edit a kbm
> by hand (I'm assuming it is a text file essentially) but doing it visually
> would really speed up the process.
>
> Glad you found the piece interesting.
>
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Mike Battaglia <battaglia01@...>wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Chris Vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I find turning it 90 degrees counter clock-wise in self-less mode makes
> > the most sense in micro tunings. You can do stuff that is well neigh
> > impossible on a regular keyboard.
> > >
> > > http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=298
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > Wow, this is interesting. I need to get this going.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
>