Modartt user forum - Microtonal Scales

Re: Microtonal Scales

2023-05-03T17:09:46Z

bani223 wrote:

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?file=9x4just.scl [Jo Ouareu] Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but here is an approximation of 36edo I found at https://en.xen.wiki/w/9x4just . To make your own scala files, create a text file named someweirdscale.scl with the text, e.g. from the xenharmonic wiki. I tested it in Pianoteq 8 and it does what it sounds like it should do: divides up each octave into 36 parts.

Thank you bani123. Your file seems to be right. I adjusted the diapson slightly so that keyboard Middle C matches the standard. I wonder about the indication "just" in the name, implying a just tuning is being used and will see what happens when I try an equal tempered setting to it, though I must admit that the 9x4just sounds good as it is. Also thanks for the advice about working with scala files.

Re: Microtonal Scales

2023-05-03T01:29:37Z

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?file=9x4just.scl [Jo Ouareu] Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but here is an approximation of 36edo I found at https://en.xen.wiki/w/9x4just . To make your own scala files, create a text file named someweirdscale.scl with the text, e.g. from the xenharmonic wiki. I tested it in Pianoteq 8 and it does what it sounds like it should do: divides up each octave into 36 parts.

Re: Microtonal Scales

2023-05-02T22:00:50Z

Jo Ouareu wrote:

Hello,
Thank you for posting the links to your microtonal scales. I have composed music using 1/16th tone and 1/14 tone tuning and wanted to work with 1/4 tone and 1/6th tone. Your 1/4 tone link saved me some trouble working it out for Pianoteq. Would you have Scala file for 1/6th tone tuning (36-EDO) you could share? As I see your message dates from 2016, I hope you are still active on the forum. Best regards

Rough sounding....wonder how anyone plays it? Cool concept though....but I'd have a hard time playing along with recordings with this.

Re: Microtonal Scales

2023-05-02T19:31:05Z

Hello,

Thank you for posting the links to your microtonal scales. I have composed music using 1/16th tone and 1/14 tone tuning and wanted to work with 1/4 tone and 1/6th tone. Your 1/4 tone link saved me some trouble working it out for Pianoteq. Would you have Scala file for 1/6th tone tuning (36-EDO) you could share? As I see your message dates from 2016, I hope you are still active on the forum. Best regards

Re: Microtonal Scales

2017-04-23T10:30:17Z

Thanks for sharing these scale settings L3nnard! I was just looking for the quarter tone but the eighth and sixteenth are quite interesting, I was surprised how inspiring they were after experimenting a bit with them.

Best regards

Microtonal Scales

2016-10-26T15:42:10Z

Hello Pianoteq users, composers and sound creators,

since I bought Pianoteq Pro, I am stunned by the sheer infinite possibilities of building your own custom sound of any instrument available for Pianoteq. Yesterday I tried to exhaust the opportunity of creating own scales by programming microtonal scales. I was inspired by the Microtone Piano by Sauter, which is tuned in sixteenth tone steps. Here is a sound example of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdAY-RhRhls

Eventually I programmed three kinds of microtonal scales:

Quarter tone scale:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/sd94fcp32..._scale.scl

Eighth tone scale:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1u1xydiul..._scale.scl

Sixteenth tone scale:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/072uc80vu..._scale.scl

Unfortunately the octave of sixteenth tone scale is out of the 88 keys range but you are able to write notes higher and lower than the 88 keys of a piano in your DAW.

If you don't know how to open scale presets in Pianoteq, just put them via drag and drop on interface.

What do you think about these scales?

Best regards,
L3nnard