Background / Temperature Tuning - Yes or No?

jonathap · Joined: Jun 12, 2008 Posts: 16 Location: Los Angeles

So I've read several places about Andromeda users switching off the background tuning options partially or fully in order to make the board sound more analog and encourage a certain amount of pitch drift.

I'd love to hear some opinions / experiences from people here. What settings do you use your board on?

Personally I want the most organic, analogue sound possible, but I am wary of switching off any tuning features since the Andromeda is the center of my live setup...and I feel messing around with the tuning features may not be the smartest idea(!)

Still I wonder if people really notice any difference in sound turning those features off. To my ears, the Andromeda is pretty analogue sounding as it is, I do hear a certain amount of pleasing pitch drift even with the background tuning features on.

-Jon

wwjd · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:07 pm Post subject:

I tried a post I read somewhere. after fully tuning the voices by hitting AUTOTUNE button twice, I switched OFF the Background tuning and left on the TEMPERATURE TUNING. after about a week, my voices were slightly off. then even later, a couple of them were off enough I didn't want to use them. Yes, it seemed a little bit old school etc, but I went ahead and turned background tuning back on. I didn't enjoy the "analog drift" because it had gotten non-musical to my ear. my experiences

Jyoti · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:16 pm Post subject:

I agree with wwjd. I was very intrigued by this (particularly after some tuning teething probs) so I did the 'switch off b tuning, leave it a bit.' Mine didn't drift hideously but... I couldn't really see the point. It didn't add anything magical and I'd rather have the accuracy. To my ears the A6 sounds analogue enough with all the tuning stuff left on.

But, as with wwjd, this is just my personal preference! Give it a go when you've got no gigs. Very Happy

jonathap · Joined: Jun 12, 2008 Posts: 16 Location: Los Angeles

Thanks--- this pretty much confirms what I suspected, intuitively. I imagine I'll keep the tuning stuff on.

Jyoti · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject:

Oh no - you should deffo give it a go! You might love it! Very Happy

sunny pedaal · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:13 am Post subject:

temptuning is a function of the chips themself, so leave it on, it hardly affects the sound.
background tuning however is performed by the a6 processor, it leads to a kind of portamento when playing fast. therefor it's better to be left off.

soundwave106

wwjd · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:38 am Post subject:

I guess it could be said also, each A6 will be different. I could tell you the exact two voices that went way out of tune on mine, but it would be different than yours. Maybe your variances would be just slightly enough to make it cool. You have nothing to lose trying it for a while and can always hit the tune button when ever you like