mtx tuning file format specifications

[seraph]

[AndyHal]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for a Max Microtuner instructional vid? In particular how to set it up for multimode and assign a different tuning scale per MIDI channel. Need that for a presentation, thanks.

Andy

[seraph]

[AndyHal]

Thanks. What I need is to switch to a different tuning by changing the MIDI channel on the controller keyboard, and also have multiple players connected to the program at the same time with different tunings. I'll have a look at the links, though.

Andy

[seraph]

[AndyHal]

How many different concurrent instances can you have in LMSO (Microtuner is limited to five)? And can you save an environment file with all settings so that you can quickly load your setup before/during a lecture, like you do with Microtuner? Sorry, I don't have any LMSO demo.

Andy

[xjscott]

[seraph]

[AndyHal]

Scott,

first of all thanks a lot for the information.

[xjscott]

Cupcake is a 16 part multitimbral instrument, with one part per channel. Each part can be tuned to a separate scale. You can connect as many MIDI controllers as you want to to its input with no limits, it's not limited to a single MIDI port. To have each controller play a different tuning, you'd tune that part to a different tuning, which requires setting the MIDI output channel of the controllers as usual.

But as mentioned, the Cupcake settings are not currently saved in an environment document, so based on what you are saying it sounds like Magic Microtuner would be a more efficient choice for you for a single standalone program. You could also consider an instrument like Absynth or Kontakt 2/3 and set up as many instances as you like of either in a VST or AU host program to make a composite multitimbral instrument and save all that as a configuration file in your host and open it all at once.

It is kind of sounding like you have a whole class full of people with more than 16 keyboards and you want everyone to be able to play whatever scale they want and all will be routed through a single central computer? If so, this is not a common tuning scenario to have dozens people each playing a separate tuning and all through a single computer program handling both the tuning and the synthesis. For that, going with a host program with good routing capabilities and loading up lots of plugins might be your best approach, but even there the result is going to be dozens of sounds at once coming through one set of speakers, am I following this correctly? How are the students to hear their particular tuning in such a setup if all are playing at once? I probably don't understand what you are doing since you've not covered all the details of this setup, such as how many people, and that it appears you want the master computer to make all the sounds and have a single audio output and all these other keyboards are just pure MIDI controllers, and whether you need each person to have his own separate multitimbral instrument with his own set of tunings, or if he needs to change the tunings himself via program changes, which I think you are intending to use as tuning select messages for a fixed set of 16 scales, and that's a fine use of program change, but I don't really know if any of this is the case.

If you have 16 people or fewer and a single set of 16 tunings, it probably does simplify things slightly.

Clarification may (or may not) help. Something like "I am a professor at Harvard University teaching a class on the history of Ethiopia. There are 8 students in the class and each has his own ABC model MIDI keyboard with no sound source built in. I want to set up a single Mac computer with 11 historical ethiopian scales and allow each student to select and play those scales remotely using the 10 input QRS MIDI interface, and have all the sounds coming from the sound output of the Mac." Knowing something like that would make it easier to narrow down suggestions.

[AndyHal]