Modartt user forum - Historical Keyboards - Remapping for Short Octave Tuning

Re: Historical Keyboards - Remapping for Short Octave Tuning

null@example.com (jcitron) — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:17:27 +0000

Zaskar wrote:

PTQ can load Scala files.
Try to create the tuning file with Scala and load it in PTQ.
http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/

Thanks. I'll check that out.

Re: Historical Keyboards - Remapping for Short Octave Tuning

null@example.com (Zaskar) — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:08:32 +0000

PTQ can load Scala files.
Try to create the tuning file with Scala and load it in PTQ.

http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/

Re: Historical Keyboards - Remapping for Short Octave Tuning

null@example.com (jcitron) — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 17:53:27 +0000

I'm sorry I didn't see your post sooner, but I don't frequent this forum too often. Anyway, I was going to ask the same thing, and when I responded to the Modartt survey on Pianoteq, this is one of the things I asked about in the comments because virtual J. Salodiensis keyboard is incorrect with its chromatic range and not a short octave as is found on my David Holmes Italian Virginal (fecit 1980) with its C/E-f "' range.

Re: Historical Keyboards - Remapping for Short Octave Tuning

null@example.com (klever_klavier) — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 23:46:24 +0000

klever_klavier wrote:

Has anyone figured out a way to re-map the entire keyboard of one of the harpsichords so that you get the standard short-octave tuning in the bottom octave only?
Up chromatically from what looks like E2, sounding pitches:
C2-F2-D2-G2-E2-A2, then back to normal from there upwards.

Okay, no replies to this one, so I sat down and figured it out myself!

The solution is to have two instances of PianoTeq open with a harpsichord loaded. For the one, I set up the keyboard mapping with the short-octave setup,
but limited the range to only the bottom (C2-B3) octave (up to MIDI note 47). The other instance I limit the range from C3 (note 48) to the top of the compass, but leave the mapping standard.

The keyboard mapping is E #0, F #5, Gb #2, G #7, Ab #4, and then just #9-10-11 as normal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_octave

Historical Keyboards - Remapping for Short Octave Tuning

null@example.com (klever_klavier) — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:14:32 +0000

Has anyone figured out a way to re-map the entire keyboard of one of the harpsichords so that you get the standard short-octave tuning in the bottom octave only?

Up chromatically from what looks like E2, sounding pitches:
C2-F2-D2-G2-E2-A2, then back to normal from there upwards.