I'd be interested in a hardware keyboard with this capability.
What capability? The fundamental thing about this seems to require that there's not any direct way to play notes. So what would the keyboard be used for?
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#12I'd be interested in a hardware keyboard with this capability.
What capability? The fundamental thing about this seems to require that there's not any direct way to play notes. So what would the keyboard be used for?
I must have misunderstood something. I'm a musician and have never seen a tunable keyboard, which I thought, upon seeing this, would be useful. I guess I'm dense, because I'd still be interested in this as an option in a physical keyboard.
But I am an illiterate musician. Perhaps that's were the misunderstanding arises. I favor Eastern instruments too.
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#13An a similar but also not similar note, today in the morning I and chatgpt tried to create a new kind of musical instrument https://franzelio.franzai.com/ sadly no uptick on HN
This toy matches my musical aptitude.
https://franzelio.franzai.com/?share=AQEKAAAHEM1rC2AAaDYAAAE...
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stuff like that always bugs me because since it's not immediately verifiable it just feels like flexing for no reason
But what if it was designed to be a quarter tone flat by another flexing musician?
or what if it's 2 full tones and one quarter semitone flat? that's what I'm saying the dude flexing his perfect pitch doesn't know what the original intent was. Maybe that brand of bell is well known for that specific microtonal pitch
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
What capability? The fundamental thing about this seems to require that there's not any direct way to play notes. So what would the keyboard be used for?
I must have misunderstood something. I'm a musician and have never seen a tunable keyboard, which I thought, upon seeing this, would be useful. I guess I'm dense, because I'd still be interested in this as an option in a physical keyboard. But I am an illiterate musician. Perhaps that's were the misunderstanding arises. I favor Eastern instruments too.
No problem. I know that you can use a traditional midi controller and use computer-based synthesizers, some of which support a wide variety of tuning options. I never got too much into that myself. When equal temperament is too constraining for me, which is not often, I can get what I need with the bend wheel.
I was just thinking maybe I was missing some way of "performing" using this post. It seems more like random and emergent as far as I can tell.
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#16Obligatory reference to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's album "Flying Microtonal Banana" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Microtonal_Banana Excerpt: "the album is recorded in quarter tone tuning, where an octave is divided into 24 (logarithmically) equal-distanced quarter tones; it was originally conceived to play on a baglama, so the band members used instruments specifically modified for microtonal tunin…
You might like this then :) It was arranged by Tolgahan Cogulu, who is part of the demo at the bottom
https://pdoomrecords.com/products/flying-microtonal-banana-s...
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#17I knew a musician who once clicked on a "ring for customer service" bell at the service counter of a laundromat, and then told the arriving attendant "Your bell is a quarter-tone flat."
Stuff like that always bugs me because since it's not immediately verifiable it just feels like flexing for no reason
Showing off their ear for detail in a way
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#18No 19edo? I think with 24edo it's the only scheme that could outplay 12.
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#19Doesn't seem to work on iOS 17.6.1 (can't hear anything when I press a key).
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#20> Can you hear the difference?
I can't. Is there an example that makes it clearer?