Yeah man!! I've heard it every Wednesday night for years . . . the "Arabic" tuning patch ;) Rock on. I'm also hearing a continuation in the kind of typical...
Hi, The final 2.2 has been released and FreeAlpha is no more the demo version of Alpha. (FreeAlpha is still an available VST freeware for Mac and Windows.) ...
... According to Garritan chief programmer Tom Hopkins, the Kontakt player that comes with GPO does not have tuning support, but the full version of Kontakt,...
To all those engaged in the valiant struggle against a musical establishment that insists that one tuning should have a monopoly in both theory and practice, a...
See http://users.bigpond.net.au/d.keenan/sagittal/ A few items will not be up for another few days. But there's definitely enough there to make a visit...
... Here in California Kontakt is going for $449, which is a lot of money to pay for a product which whose capabilities are not very well nor fully described....
... you ... This piece stuck me as interesting but in *serious* need of retuning; the sound of the oud made one expect a different tuning, and it was actually...
... Once ... retuning; ... don't. I had the exact opposite reaction. Again, I'm pretty darn sure that the tuning was the same "Arabic" setting (whose 12...
Gene, {you wrote...} ... Try Froogle - you can find it for less and save sales tax as well. ... Welcome to the music biz. NI has actually sold a lot of...
Gene, {you wrote...} ... I like the tuning. It is what caught my ear and 'caused' me to play the lines I did. ... Huh? I liked the tuning, and it met my...
Paul, {you wrote...} ... I was hoping each and every person who either really *knows* oud playing/habits, not to mention any people who are fretted instrument ...
... liked in 22, ... in other ... 19. I ... same. Just ... I was ... I don't get it. You had so many notes of 22 tuned up that each step was the same, but...
... instrument ... skills! I ... played!! I did understand that, and that's why I praised you so highly! ... rent - ... innate skills. ... great ... No apology...
... Actually I thought some of the ornamentation was pretty impressive, considering you used a keyboard. ... I doubt a keyboard controller by itself would ever...
Paul, {you wrote...} ... I'm probably not being clear. When I've tried to work with 22, I would simply load a Scala-generated 22 scale with 22 notes. I would...
... That's a huge hand to be dealt, and I wouldn't expect anyone to find much in there just by "playing around", unfortunately. The number of possibilities is...
P, {you wrote...} ... Yeah, but wait a minute: if I tune up the keyboard in a particular tuning/scale, and I start trying to build chords, and I don't like the...
... find much ... the ... Well, sure. The only other thing to check is a variety of timbres. But after that, if it's not for you, it's not for you. How do you ...
... in 22, ... in other ... same. Just ... That's a good start--you want a scale, which could be, for instance, a scale *in* an equal temperament. MOS are one...
... Sounded bland to me. Sure, oud players ... Eh, why not? Don't you think you could sound reasonably exotic, if not actually Arabic, in 22 equal? Or do you...
Hi Jon, ... Sounds interesting :-). I remember reading some poems by a Japanese poet Matsuo Basho - he used a mixture of prose and poetry, so the prose setting...