Re: Oh thank god u r here, jeremy...
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Posted by Jeremy D. on July 20, 2002 at 20:29:43:
In Reply to: Oh thank god u r here, jeremy... posted by Ayman Adly on July 19, 2002 at 23:23:05:
Glad to be of help! Re quartertones, try using the pitch wheel command. This is mostly used for pitch bend effects, but there's no reason why you shouldn't use it for fixed microtones between the semitones of the western scale. Now, synths vary in pitch bend sensitivity, but looking at an old sequence of mine, I see that on the SB Live or Audigy, a pitch wheel event with a value of +4096 raises the pitch of the note that's currently playing by a semitone, and -4096 lowers it by a semitone. So a quartertone will be +/-2048, and you should be able to extrapolate other microtones from those values.
Cheers,
Jeremy
Cheers,
Jeremy
: Hi Jeremy... 1st, many thanx for your help. with your being around, i'm sure i won't find a prob switching to computer-aided music creation. 2nd, hehe... there's one another question: in oriental music, we create special scales (called arabic or egyptian scales) and that's done by reducing one of the notes by a 0.25 tone. i used to do it utilizing special pieces of hardware like the GEM AS-1 (arabic scale converter), but now what can i do to acheive 0.25 tone reductions on certain notes in sonar or cubase?! i tried to do it in edit->midi effects->traspose in sonar but in vain, it seems that the prog doesn't accept less than 1 tone steps. plz say ur magic words.