Of course. Just as you say, "some instruments simply can't render it as intended." Agreed. And some can, so blanket condemnations are out-of-date, IMO. Kent On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mark Schecter <mark at schecterpiano.com>wrote: > Kent and Jon, > > If I may, possibly Jon was referring to the fact that digital sound sources > implement tunability to varying precision, such that no matter how perfect > your model, some instruments simply can't render it as intended. This is > clear if you look at the chart here: http://www.microtonal-synthesis.com/ > > -Mark > > Kent Swafford wrote: > >> 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 <mailto: >> 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 >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090203/cec63b2e/attachment.html>
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