Koen said:
On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:29 AM [GMT+1=CET], Chris Grigg <xxxgmpi-public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Koen said:On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:06 AM [GMT+1=CET], Chris Grigg <xxxgmpi-public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Koen said:Maybe I'm a bit ignorant, so please inform me on how you would do the following practical composition thing using MIDI: - I use a microtonal scale that has 47 "micronotes" per "octave" - I use 10 "octaves" in my music - I do pitch bends for each of these "micronotes" individually Sure, you can tune your synthesizer so that it uses 47 "micronotes" for 2 (and a bit) octaves, but how will you address all these 470 notes when MIDI only allows 128 note numbers? Or am I missing something here?
I don't have any problem admitting it would take some work to achieve this under MIDI, but by way of education: You .could. do it by using the MIDI tuning sys ex messages to set the scales, and assigning notes to multiple channels and using program changes to select instruments with different octave offsets.
OK. Thanks for the info. But that seems surely a "workaround" to me ;-)
You're welcome, and I don't deny it's a workaround, I was just answering your question as to whether it was possible; my conclusion is that if you're willing to accept a bit of additional work, it's completely possible.
Also the pitch bends per "micronote"?
Koen
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