Lemba[16] (Lemba[8] in the tritone) is super-awesome, I've decided. ... I was intuitively hoping for a subharmonic series in there too, but I can't find one....
53821
wallyesterpaulrus
wallyesterpa...
Jul 1, 2004 9:12 am
... One of ... to 15, ... E ... octave ... B# Cx ... I can't find one. Is ... The "straight"; Lemba scales have 10 and 16 notes, symmetric at the half-octave...
53822
George D. Secor
gdsecor
Jul 1, 2004 2:56 pm
... REGISTER! ... Hmmm, maybe you ought to moderate the fellow who posted this: ;-) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/53812 Oops, I just realized...
53823
David M. Bowen
davidmbowen5...
Jul 1, 2004 3:09 pm
Monz, I've looked at the drawings Kraig pointed to and agree that Erv's work is cryptic. It's not that hard to find the pattern, but it's not clear which parts...
53824
Jacob
piccolosandc...
Jul 1, 2004 8:10 pm
... I am using all 16 notes, so it should be possible. And there it is. If the overtones were +1 +7 +0 +6 +4 +2 +0 +3 then the undertones can be generated by...
53825
George D. Secor
gdsecor
Jul 1, 2004 9:07 pm
... might ... rest ... Well, I don't know that there's much that I can say at this point. You've been analyzing, classifying, and naming families of tunings in...
53826
wallyesterpaulrus
wallyesterpa...
Jul 1, 2004 9:28 pm
... in ... I ... reaction ... - ... both ... I've advocated 76-equal as a lesser sort of all-around tuning (as you can see on Monz's equal temeprament...
53827
Gene Ward Smith
genewardsmith
Jul 1, 2004 9:28 pm
... Probably nothing in the 7-limit mavila family is close enough to 5-limit mavila to deserve the name. Here's the family; the number on the second line is...
53828
Gene Ward Smith
genewardsmith
Jul 1, 2004 9:49 pm
... Both 76 and 88 show up in a search for things which do those three well; presumably 398 is taking it too far, though 230 steps gives an exellent injera...
53829
wallyesterpaulrus
wallyesterpa...
Jul 1, 2004 10:13 pm
Hi Kraig, The "optimal" Mavila horagram in the present paper puts the interval in question at 358.01 cents (and the "octave" at 1206.55 cents, so the 5:2 and...
53830
Bill Canty
bill_canty
Jul 1, 2004 10:20 pm
... Well Charles, I'm just beginning my (very part-time, unfortunately) investigations into the most effective uses of tunings for relaxation music. Still...
53831
Bill Canty
bill_canty
Jul 1, 2004 10:29 pm
... Oh well... ... Are you allowed to say whether your fellow countrymen at Emagic are going to implement Hermode tuning? ... Aha! Please keep us informed....
53832
wallyesterpaulrus
wallyesterpa...
Jul 1, 2004 10:45 pm
... setttle ... of ... Agreed entirely. But if an array of possibilities is presented, it's more likely that any given musician will be able to find the one or...
53833
Gene Ward Smith
genewardsmith
Jul 1, 2004 10:48 pm
... Midi pitch bends are capable of all the accuracy anyone is likely to need; that doesn't mean your program of choice knows what to do with the fine tuning...
53834
Bill Canty
bill_canty
Jul 1, 2004 11:00 pm
... Do you mean the normal 0 to 127 pitch bend messages, or the 14-bit ones? ... AFAIK my program of choice (Logic) does know what to do with the fine tuning...
53835
kraig grady
banaphshu
Jul 1, 2004 11:12 pm
Hi David! This seems to be possible. Like i said , i am not sure who came up with the latter terms and what parts of the pattern they found essential. I do ...
53836
Kurt Bigler
voxdig
Jul 2, 2004 12:23 am
... FWIW, my experience is that very slow beating is much more relaxing than beatless music. Equal-beating (or what might perhaps be more generally called...
53837
Jon Szanto
jonszanto
Jul 2, 2004 12:27 am
... it's ... If, and only if, they are presented in a manner that allows said musician a ghost of a chance to sort through the myriad of tunings. I say this...
53838
Gene Ward Smith
genewardsmith
Jul 2, 2004 1:26 am
... Fine bend is 14 bits, with the usual range setting you get 12*2^12 = 49152 divisions of the octave. I don't regard coarse pitch bend as normal, I regard it...
53839
Gene Ward Smith
genewardsmith
Jul 2, 2004 1:38 am
... I'd suggest people start by asking themselves what they want in a tuning. For instance, how close would you like it to come to JI and in what limit? Are...
53840
Jon Szanto
jonszanto
Jul 2, 2004 2:28 am
Gene, ... Beautiful. The only thing that I can add is that this is very much the left brain end of things, and the right brain side needs to play through...
53841
Herman Miller
teamousechan...
Jul 2, 2004 3:42 am
... You can take the negative of the generators (-1 -3 -0 -2 -4 -6 -0 -7 -1), and if you add 7 to keep them in the range 0-7, you end up with +6 +4 +7 +5 +3 +1...
53842
Herman Miller
teamousechan...
Jul 2, 2004 5:17 am
... There does seem to be an overabundance of tunings, especially the 7-limit temperaments; it's hard to know which ones are worth pursuing. I recently dug up...
53843
Werner Mohrlok
wmhermode
Jul 2, 2004 5:40 am
... [mailto:bill@...] ... Sorry, they didn't allow me to confirm this. ... I will do so. WM ... [mailto:bill@...] > Gesendet: Freitag, 2....
53844
Rick Tagawa
ricktagawa
Jul 2, 2004 6:04 am
On the Bohlen-Pierce site Heinz Bolen in the article from September 18, 1999 "A 833 Cents Scale" actually discusses 36ET. See link "More Unusual Scales." I...
53845
Herman Miller
teamousechan...
Jul 2, 2004 6:46 am
... There's always that aspect of music. In theory 21-ET isn't a very good tuning, but it can actually be appropriate for setting a particular mood. I...
53846
monz
joemonz
Jul 2, 2004 7:13 am
hi Paul (and George), ... you certainly *will* be able to easily compose music on the computer in 152-ET using the Tonalsoft software. Chris (my Tonalsoft...
53847
monz
joemonz
Jul 2, 2004 7:22 am
hi Bill and Gene, ... as i reported last summer, i did some experiments with my computer soundcards, using Cakewalk with a pitch-bend resolution of 12-bits...
53848
Gene Ward Smith
genewardsmith
Jul 2, 2004 7:51 am
... It's easier to get a handle on 5 and 7 limit linear temperaments, but lately there's been some attention paid to the 13-limit. Where does one stop? If you...
53849
Gene Ward Smith
genewardsmith
Jul 2, 2004 8:03 am
... 12 and 21 share what Paul is calling "august", a 7-limit version of augmented. 21 has the flat fifth of 7, and excellent 7s, whereas 12 has an excellent...
