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Improvising in various Regular Temperaments using MIDI Guitar (and post arranged) I am playing along with clips of @MorganÅgren-Drums-Music finest I use a synth sound in some, in others a sampled harp, in others an electric guitar. (The irony? of using a real electric guitar as a midi controller to trigger another electric guitar, so inefficient haha, don't mention it) Below is a list of the tunings by .scl file name, along with links to each clip I've used. Check out the video 'Shredding' for some impossible drumming! microrythms? 00:00 - 15 TET Blackwood[10] 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 00:36 - 72 TET 12-Adams[12] 12 4 7 3 4 3 9 11 5 5 2 7 -) 01:20 - 31 TET Meantone[19] 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 Never underestimate a castanete 02:06 - 15 TET Blackwood[10] 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 (again) 02:33 - 26 TET Flattone[12] 1 3 1 3 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 3 03:23 - 53 TET Orwell[9] 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 Morgan Agren Istanbul Agop 04:24 - 26 TET Flattone[12] 1 3 1 3 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 3 (again) 04:39 22 TET Pajara[10] Std Pentachordal Maj 2 2 3 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 Beans 05:12 - 17 TET Superpyth[12] 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 Shredding 05:31 - 46 TET Sensi[11] 5 5 5 2 5 5 5 2 5 5 2 Joyce himself revealed --------- It's worth noting that what I'm playing barely scratches the surface of the possibilities for each tuning. Even if you consider these regular temperaments as sub-scales or sub-tunings of a complete equal division system, these selections have their own myriad of scales. MIDI guitar and alternate tunings: Regular Temperament: Tuning packs: Some thoughts on using the guitar like this: It's really cool to actually, with just a 10MB program, convert any electric guitar into a MIDI controller and play with many other instruments. However, for microtonal music, it feels really unnatural and can make your brain hurt – not kidding. For example, if you load a pentatonic scale, you can now play it in five consecutive frets, and your brain is accustomed to understanding that movement very differently. The guitar, as an instrument, doesn't have an interface like the piano to the real sound source. The guitar (and similar instruments) directly expose you to the physicality of sound. The pentatonic scale shape we all know is an actual physical thing that you portray with your hands on top of the strings. It's not just like detuning the guitar; still, you expect the same chromaticism in each string. Maybe if the tuning is too small, big, or uneven, it also creates a very unnatural feeling while playing. The vibrations that you pick up from the instrument also add to the weirdness. You have to play with headphones and loudness to not listen to the real guitar!
