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I think I ought to put a new subject line to this post, because I'm leaving the 440 vs 432 discussion. But that thread inspired me to do a little hands-on experimenting with different micro tunings. I wrote that Hermode 3+5 tuning was a favorit and fact is I once got a great vibe tuning up a sampled grand piano that way to play along with it on tenor sax. The point with Hermode is that it is "floating", adapts to the music in order to save as much purity as possible regarding what note intervals happen to play at the same time. In the computer music world this is possible if using a DAW that offers global analysis and control over all virtual instruments being used in a piece. But now, when I mocked up this synth intensive test music piece I only found Hermode to sound lame "without much personality". A much more expressive performance took place when playing back the piece with the full instrumentation playing tuned according to South Indian Vina. I also like the somewhat harsch sounding Siamese Tuning (pretty close to Tibetian Cermonial that I also liked, but Siames sounds more "mental", in an exciting way). Here are the three links if someone wants to check out the differences: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4963264/all_synths_tuned_432hz_siamese_tuning.mp3 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4963264/all_synths_tuned_432hz_south_indian_vina.mp3 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4963264/all_synths_tuned_432hz_hermode35.mp3 It's amazing how quick your listening adapts to micro tunings that are so different! And it also amazes me how much the emotional (or "inner cinematic") differs between these tunings. These three examples are from Logic's micro tuning library, it is quite big but lacking "far out stuff". So I'm adding a fourth link to a synth piece I made earlier with Alchemy's internal Burmesian micro tuning. But Alchemy doesn't allow the user to set a root note for the key so my guess is that all micro tunings of Alchemy only works in the traditionally correct way if playing in C... which I did not (maybe that's why I liked it?). http://soundcloud.com/pboy/multidimensional Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen