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Aside from sampled instruments, there's the entire world of synthesis, including the endless number of virtual instruments that have become staples in modern po
by teilo 8y ago
Aside from sampled instruments, there's the entire world of synthesis, including the endless number of virtual instruments that have become staples in modern popular and electronic music. As to your question: they are not generally stretched tuned. Many instruments support alternate temperaments through the use of .tun files, but temperament (with a few outlying exceptions) only speaks to the interval deltas of the notes within an octave, not of the entire range of the instrument.
However, it doesn't matter. The reason for the stretch-tuning of a piano is due to the physical limitations of a vibrating string being unable to produce the same harmonic intervals at the extremities of the instrument's range, and does not apply to electronic instruments which, particularly in additive synthesis, can generate whatever harmonics are desired, including harmonic configurations that no physical instrument would be able to produce.
- HelloNurse 8y agoStretch tuning would make sense for small niches of synthesized instruments that lie beyond the typical musician or sound designer's skills and tastes: - physical models that strive for realism enough to reproduce a defect - deliberately inharmonic additive synthesis - carefully designed FM/PM synthesis Conversely, popular synthesis methods, particularly subtractive synthesis, are usually perfectly harmonic and do not need stretch tuning.
- 8bitsrule 8y agoI ran across this Red Bull video the other day; right at the beginning Mark Verbos shows how his new synth design has (if I understand correctly) hardware sliders to allow the user to adjust individual harmonics ... and circuitry (Hadn't seen the like of that before.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFxxvCXf-k0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFxxvCXf-k0 More on Verbos:http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/11/studio-science-mark-verbos-modular-synth http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/11/studio-science-...
- yesenadam 8y ago"hardware sliders to allow the user to adjust individual harmonics" - Ah, just like traditional church organs.