[CAUT] Verituner owners - cross post

[Ari Isaac]

Hello Ron.

This looks good, I wish it would talk, be voice accessible.
Good luck with it.

Ari Isaac. 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron
Koval
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:24 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org; caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] Verituner owners - cross post



I've been working on a replacement style for the built-in Average style.
Thanks to all the volunteer "beta testers" that were willing to give it a
try - I've been getting positive feedback from techs as well as clients on
this one. I developed this for those technicians that have kept the style on
"Average" and not experimented with the custom styles.  This allows you to
tune without having to make a lot of choices, yet still harness the power of
multiple partial matches to calculate a tuning. Just enter in the setpoints,
copy it and change the A0 for big pianos and you have two styles to use!
 
I began working on this just before Grand Rapids and was able to set an
early version on a Yamaha P22 for the final Verituner class.  The goal is a
really harmonious resonant blend from bottom to top.  Try it and let me know
if you can tell a difference - positive, negative or indifferent...

All beats are set to 0.0 - notice that there aren't setpoints for either A3
or A4.
 
(This is for the VT100 box - pocket pc directions to follow)
 
A0 6:3 65% / 4:1 35%
C#2 6:3 40% / 4:1 60%
D2 4:2 30% / 6:3 30% / 3:1 40%
D3 4:2 30% / 6:3 30% / 3:1 40%

E6 4:2 40% / 2:1 20% / 3:1 40%
G7 4:1 30% / 8:1 30% / 3:1 40%
G#7 4:1 70% / 8:1 30%
C8 4:1 70% / 8:1 30%
 
The core of this temperament is from D2 - E6. Above and below - may be
changed to your personal tuning style preference, or room, or size of piano.
This style works great with average pianos. The only change I make is to
change A0 to:
 
A0 6:3 50% / 12:6 50% for bigger pianos (over 5', or tall uprights) I have
two styles saved to make switching between them easy.
 
Why?
 
Just as I felt that there was a positive progression between tuning with my
Korg, to tuning with a template tuner, to tuning with a more modern option
to tuning with the Verituner. This represents a step forward for me in
involving more information being used to calculate a more "resonant" tuning
for each individual instrument. It is NOT an attempt to get smoother thirds,
or 10ths or 5ths or 6ths or 4ths... but rather a way to find a really nice
blend of everything that's going on. 
 
Feel free to contact me if you need help loading it in the machine.
 
 
(directions for pocket pc)
A set point for A3/A4 is required - setting the percentage to 1% seems to
make it work like the box. (0% caused a problem..) This uses the maximum
allowable setpoints, so I had to leave out the G#7 from the box. 
 
A0 6:3 65% / 4:1 35%
C#2 6:3 40% / 4:1 60%
D2 4:2 30% / 6:3 30% / 3:1 40%
D3 4:2 30% / 6:3 30% / 3:1 40%
A3/A4 4:2 1% / 3:1 1%
E6 4:2 40% / 2:1 20% / 3:1 40%
G7 4:1 30% / 8:1 30% / 3:1 40%
C8 4:1 70% / 8:1 30%

Ron Koval
chicagoland

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http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=drwoodwind

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