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hmt hermode program controlled tuning
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Hmt - Hermode tuning; program controlled tuning.
This article is an introduction to the topic of tuning. It's
intended for all musicians and music lovers who have a
keen sense of hearing and who can truly appreciate an
improved world of sound.
Note:
You can also listen to all of the sound examples used here.
In order to do this, you'll need to install a sound card and
to turn on your loudspeakers.
Hermode Tuning controls the tuning of electronic keyboard
instruments automatically during a musical performance.
A novice might be surprised about this and ask himself just
why this effort is necessary. After all, a "well-tempered
keyboard instrument" (Whatever that might actually mean) is
generally assumed to be optimally tuned. However this isn't
the case: any kind of fixed tuning is a rather poor compromise,
and even Hermode Tuning can't alleviate all kinds of tuning
problems. However, it can minimize them. Good wind or string players and singers have always been able to
produce variable intonation. But keyboard instruments - at least
up to the present - have always had a rigidly preset tuning
determined either by a piano tuner or, in the case of electronic
instruments, by a programmed table. In order to create clear
frequencies for all conceivable fifth and third intervals in all possible
chord and interval progressions, a keyboard instrument would
have to have a significantly higher number of keys per octave instead
of only the usual 12. But who could play such and instrument?
And who would want to?
Hermode Tuning can help with this problem: it retains the usual
correspondence between keys and notes while using a controlled
program to correct the individual notes of electronic instruments
so that they reach a high degree of purity. In this process, up to
50 finely graded frequencies per note are available, although the
tuning process is still compatible with fixed tuning ...
This article is an introduction to the topic of tuning. It's
intended for all musicians and music lovers who have a
keen sense of hearing and who can truly appreciate an
improved world of sound.
Note:
You can also listen to all of the sound examples used here.
In order to do this, you'll need to install a sound card and
to turn on your loudspeakers.
Hermode Tuning controls the tuning of electronic keyboard
instruments automatically during a musical performance.
A novice might be surprised about this and ask himself just
why this effort is necessary. After all, a "well-tempered
keyboard instrument" (Whatever that might actually mean) is
generally assumed to be optimally tuned. However this isn't
the case: any kind of fixed tuning is a rather poor compromise,
and even Hermode Tuning can't alleviate all kinds of tuning
problems. However, it can minimize them. Good wind or string players and singers have always been able to
produce variable intonation. But keyboard instruments - at least
up to the present - have always had a rigidly preset tuning
determined either by a piano tuner or, in the case of electronic
instruments, by a programmed table. In order to create clear
frequencies for all conceivable fifth and third intervals in all possible
chord and interval progressions, a keyboard instrument would
have to have a significantly higher number of keys per octave instead
of only the usual 12. But who could play such and instrument?
And who would want to?
Hermode Tuning can help with this problem: it retains the usual
correspondence between keys and notes while using a controlled
program to correct the individual notes of electronic instruments
so that they reach a high degree of purity. In this process, up to
50 finely graded frequencies per note are available, although the
tuning process is still compatible with fixed tuning ...
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