It’s not possible to switch from one tuning mode to another while playing, as you could do on the qanun.
But now you’re stuck with just one 12-note scale. If you want to stick with a conventional 12-note keyboard layout, again you can load a Scala file containing whatever tuning you’d like. This imposes a drastic burden on performance technique. This is eminently practical the downside is that you’ll quite likely end up with 17 or 21 notes per octave in your scale, which means your MIDI keyboard layout will no longer bear the faintest resemblance to what you’re hearing.
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scl file) into a compatible software synthesizer. One way to have access to a variety of tuning modes in a computer is to load a Scala file (a. It strikes me as more straightforward and easier to use than computer-based alternative tuning setups, for several reasons. I’m not sure I want to start learning a new instrument from scratch, but I quite like this system. Leave it flipped and you’ve changed the tuning so that your instrument plays a different microtonal scale. Wiggle a mandal rapidly and you have a trill.
These little levers can adjust the pitch of a given note up or down by a fraction of a half-step. What immediately interested me about the qanun is the set of mandals at the end of each string. Typically there are 24 or 26 pitches in a sort of diatonic scale, each pitch being sounded by a course of three strings tuned in unison. This instrument is shaped a bit like a zither, and lies flat on the player’s lap (or on a table) while being played. Yesterday I happened to stumble onto a video of someone playing the qanun. It’s not always easy to find one whose capabilities are a good match for your desires. Come to think of it, by the time Beethoven was my age, he had been dead for 15 years, so there’s that too.Įvery musical instrument has both strengths and limitations. But it occurred to me the other day that, you know, Beethoven got along all right with impaired hearing, and my hearing is a lot better than his was. Mixing is a challenge, because I can no longer hear the high frequencies. I do make some vague effort to mix the tracks in a way that other people might find inoffensive. I no longer concern myself with such questions, if I ever did. If someone were to ask me what this style of music is, I wouldn’t even be able to say. In case you can’t get the music player widget to work, here’s a direct link: Loom, Native Instruments Battery 3, and so forth. I didn’t end up using a lot of the random patches, but I did use ten Nostromos, along with a few other things - Spectrasonics Omnisphere, A.I.R. It’s called “Lectric,” because it started out as a challenge to myself to use a bunch of random-generated patches in Lectric Panda’s wonderful Nostromo synth in Reason. Maybe it’s to do with being old and lazy. I keep telling myself not to use eight-bar phrases in 4/4, but then something happens. Along the bottom are the control modules and the ride cymbal. The drums are along the top, the vaguely piano-like chords are in the middle, and the moving sequence is in the 3rd row.
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The patch (with the actual patch cords blunked out, which is how I usually work, because it’s just too much of a visual hodgepodge otherwise) looks like this: In addition to N.E.W.S., I used the Nysthi Jooper and Janneker to organize the switching of instruments in and out. If the built-in player doesn’t work for you, you can use this direct link. I don’t know whether all of the results of this patch would be in 4/4, but this pattern was, so I started adding other modules…. Sampling an input is involved, and I discovered that if I use an oscillator as the input and then sync the oscillator to one of the outputs, I get a repeating rhythm pattern. It sends trigger signals out of a grid of jacks based on some sort of algorithm that I don’t pretend to understand. I was playing around with a module called N.E.W.S., from a programmer who goes by the name Qwelk. But if you just follow your nose, and if you have a reasonable grasp of the tools, there may be some chemistry. You do have to understand some stuff about modular synthesis - this is not Garageband we’re talking about. One of the fun things about messing around in VCV Rack is that you never know what you may come up with, or discover.
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