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Topic: Quarter-tone mapping

Hello,
I just purchased PianoTeq for the first time.
I would like to compose and perform a quarter-tone piano piece on one keyboard.  To do this, I would like to map 24 quarter tones onto to two octaves. So middle C = C, C# becomes C with a raised quarter tone, D becomes C#, etc. It would take two octaves on the keyboard to play one octave (because there are now 24 pitches in an octave).

What would be the easiest way to achieve this?

Thanks in advance, for helping out this newbie.

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Re: Quarter-tone mapping

Hey, welcome! I can't fully answer your question, but this might get you part of the way there if you haven't figured it out already. If you click the "+" next to tuning, then select "Temperament" -> "Make equal temperament" you can change the degrees from 12 to 24.

I suspect you'd need to change the Diapason from 440 Hz to whatever that A would be with your new tuning to get middle C to sound like the standard C4 tuning, but I don't know for sure. I'm sure one of the microtonal enthusiasts will come along sooner or later with better details for you.

EDIT: I think this works in Pianoteq Standard and Pro, not sure about Stage.

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Re: Quarter-tone mapping

Oh, thank you!  That was WAY easier than I thought it would be.

miiindbullets wrote:

Hey, welcome! I can't fully answer your question, but this might get you part of the way there if you haven't figured it out already. If you click the "+" next to tuning, then select "Temperament" -> "Make equal temperament" you can change the degrees from 12 to 24.

I suspect you'd need to change the Diapason from 440 Hz to whatever that A would be with your new tuning to get middle C to sound like the standard C4 tuning, but I don't know for sure. I'm sure one of the microtonal enthusiasts will come along sooner or later with better details for you.

EDIT: I think this works in Pianoteq Standard and Pro, not sure about Stage.