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> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Raul Bonell<raul.bonell@gmail.com> >wrote: >> check this out ... just popped up when searching for a vsti midi >sequencer >> >> >http://www.dontcrack.com/freeware/downloads.php/id/2726/software/Max-Magic-Microtuner/ > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Per Boysen<perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > > Awesome! Awesome! This is what I was looking for yesterday! I needed > to convert micro tuning scripts from Scala to AnaMark and found a > Windows application that worked. But this is better, not having to > reboot into Windows every time. Thanks for the tip, downloading as I > type! > > Had a lot of fun yesterday with a Burmese scale on fat synth brass > drones. Going micro tonal is somewhat addictive... I noticed my guitar > suddenly felt a bit lame with its nice and polished tempered tuning > fret placement ;-)) I just checked out this Max created application and it really rocks! The thing is that although the free Windows appl TuneTools I found yesterday works, the tunings still sound bad. I needed no more than a couple of minutes with the PDF manual for Max-Magic-Microtuner to understand why: In Logic you can specify a root note of the key when applying a micro tonal tuning scale to electronic instruments and then Logic calculates every note in the chosen tuning based on the root note of the key you type in. I had not understood that other software doesn't do this, although I had my suspicions after looking all over the Alchemy synth without finding any way to refer the synth to the key. The rough truth is that TuneTools and all those micro tonal third-party synth plug-ins out there (Alchemy, Cameleon5k, Albino etc etc) they only sound okay in C when playing micro tonal scales. If you want to do a piece in B, as I was up to yesterday, you need to manually recalculate the tuning script for the root note B, put that script in the synths tuning script library folder, reboot your host application and import the micro tuning into the plug-in instrument. Wow... as a Logic user I never had an idea folks out there had all these issues! ;-)) Now, the great thing with this Max-Magic-Microtuner is that it makes it a breeze to create a tuning script for a third-party synth and have it run microtonally in tune with Logic's micro tonal system (that works seamlessly only because the Logic software instruments are actually not plug-ins but integrated parts of the application). So again, for me that was a very good tip from Raul! Microtuner will become one of my most used software tools. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se www.perboysen.com