[CAUT] HIstorical temperaments and compensation

Kent Swafford kswafford at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 06:28:00 PST 2009


I think the time is past where it is OK to automatically insult the quality
of digital instruments; digital instruments can be quite good.
I have posted here musical passages created with 3 of the best digital
instruments. Some knew right away they were listening to digitals, but many
did not. Case closed, as far as I am concerned.

I was responding to an inquiry about whether it is possible to demonstrate
various temperaments easily with modern sophisticated electronic gear. It
is.

Indeed the Scala file format is open, and one can create one's own tuning
files, thus making it possible to control the quality and accuracy of the
tunings, not to mention the ability to create tuning files of tunings of
one's own devising. In other words, in creating a demo of various tunings we
could be in control of the tunings and not blindly dependent upon
questionable tunings built in by others.

Respectfully,

Kent




On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Jon Page <jonpage at comcast.net> wrote:

>  >So yes, this is most definitely "out there already".
>
> I haven't listened to a new digital keyboard in a while but their ET
> temperament bearing usually wasn't anything to brag about, so I
> suspect the HT's are not a qualified representation either.  But it
> could offer the gist of it or one poor sample for another.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>  Jon Page
>
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