ForumsSoftware ← Aalto/Harry Partch Tuning Questions

Hi all,

Looking for advice and suggestions regarding utilizing the Harry Partch just intonation scales in Aalto. My first question is, given the Partch created 43 note scale, what are "partch_29", "partch_37", "partch_39", and "partch_41" referring to in Aalto? I'm guessing "partch_29" refers to total ratios generated by the 11-limit division of the octave as conceived by Partch, but I'd welcome any clarification on that point, and also why perhaps there's no "patch_43" scale?

How are "you" adjusting your DAW to deal with non-12 tone equal temperament tunings?

Are there ways to reconfigure the MIDI piano roll in the DAW (any DAW...) to reflect scales other than 12 tone scale?

Has anyone heard of or used "alt-tuner" by TallKite Software? If not, I think it's worth a look if you're into this type of thing. Cheers all!!

http://www.tallkite.com/alt-tuner.html

Christian

Hi Christian,

You can look at the .scl files for more information about the various scales. You can put any .scl file into the scales directory yourself to use it in Aalto and Kaivo. The format is human readable and it's easy to see what ratios are involved.

Here's a scale file for the 43-note Patch tuning.

I don't know of a feature in any DAW that will allow it to "understand" that you are playing in a microtonal scale.

! PARTCH_43.scl
!
Harry Partch's 43-tone pure scale

43
!
81/80
33/32
21/20
16/15
12/11
11/10
10/9
9/8
8/7
7/6
32/27
6/5
11/9
5/4
14/11
9/7
21/16
4/3
27/20
11/8
7/5
10/7
16/11
40/27
3/2
32/21
14/9
11/7
8/5
18/11
5/3
27/16
12/7
7/4
16/9
9/5
20/11
11/6
15/8
40/21
64/33
160/81
2/1

Thanks Randy.

Some inroads have been made regarding the ability to compose and perform microtonally in the DAW environment. Below is a link explaining how to set up Reaper through customizing the MIDI Piano Roll microtonally. There are also other workarounds in other DAWs if anyone wants to hit me up about it. Cheers.

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=146780

Thanks for sharing this info.

yep, interesting info, thank you.