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Show HN: Microtonal Piano
- eps 2y agoShows nothing but a blank screen on an older iPad.
- eth0up 2y agoI'd be interested in a hardware keyboard with this capability.
- recursive 2y agoWhat capability? The fundamental thing about this seems to require that there's not any direct way to play notes. So what would the keyboard be used for?
- eth0up 2y agoI must have misunderstood something. I'm a musician and have never seen a tunable keyboard, which I thought, upon seeing this, would be useful. I guess I'm dense, because I'd still be interested in this as an option in a physical keyboard. But I am an illiterate musician. Perhaps that's were the misunderstanding arises. I favor Eastern instruments too.
- recursive 2y agoNo problem. I know that you can use a traditional midi controller and use computer-based synthesizers, some of which support a wide variety of tuning options. I never got too much into that myself. When equal temperament is too constraining for me, which is not often, I can get what I need with the bend wheel. I was just thinking maybe I was missing some way of "performing" using this post. It seems more like random and emergent as far as I can tell.
- jjslocum3 2y agoI knew a musician who once clicked on a "ring for customer service" bell at the service counter of a laundromat, and then told the arriving attendant "Your bell is a quarter-tone flat."
- ryanmcbride 2y agoStuff like that always bugs me because since it's not immediately verifiable it just feels like flexing for no reason
- BLKNSLVR 2y agoBut what if it was designed to be a quarter tone flat by another flexing musician?
- ryanmcbride 2y agoor what if it's 2 full tones and one quarter semitone flat? that's what I'm saying the dude flexing his perfect pitch doesn't know what the original intent was. Maybe that brand of bell is well known for that specific microtonal pitch
- interludead 2y agoShowing off their ear for detail in a way
- Ylpertnodi 2y ago440 or 442Hz?
- franze 2y agoAn a similar but also not similar note, today in the morning I and chatgpt tried to create a new kind of musical instrument https://franzelio.franzai.com/ https://franzelio.franzai.com/ sadly no uptick on HN
- Loughla 2y agoAfter three lines and probably 15 balls it started screeching at me.
- xtiansimon 2y agoThis toy matches my musical aptitude. https://franzelio.franzai.com/?share=AQEKAAAHEM1rC2AAaDYAAAEczWKMiMx5NAAAAcv_mXxkAKnpAAABpMxDZrcyiQ8AAAE_MzFGHmZmgwAAAQmat4AxmcvkAAAB5maOudZmtKsAAAEBGZrYWuZmzhwAABXllMgSAAABxLbF1AAAAaDJxrcAAAF4lsH7AAABTA-1vAAAASYqwSQAAAFSgqYlAAABfQui_wAAAZmAlj4AAAGu_JPMAAABtRaFIAAAAbUVlo4AAAGYAn24AAABdMJxrwAAAV4PaF8AAAFkJWe__wABoGJKwv8AAWudVJsBAAEsnVUc_wABqHRaXv8AAYAANFAAAQEAAA https://franzelio.franzai.com/?share=AQEKAAAHEM1rC2AAaDYAAAE...
- croisillon 2y agoyou posted it 3 days ago, i don't understand your comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41561647 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41561647
- hug 2y agoLook that the timestamp, friend. This is likely a “second chance” for this submission.
- croisillon 2y agoah, i see it now, ok!
- ClaraForm 2y agoI'm going to bug report something very strange: once I started trying to make music with your instrument, _both_ of my dogs reacted with serious concern for me. I don't know what they heard in your samples, but something that made them worry. You should test with more dogs. ;)
- BLKNSLVR 2y agoObligatory reference to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's album "Flying Microtonal Banana" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Microtonal_Banana https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Microtonal_Banana Excerpt: "the album is recorded in quarter tone tuning, where an octave is divided into 24 (logarithmically) equal-distanced quarter tones; it was originally conceived to play on a baglama, so the band members used instruments specifically modified for microtonal tuning, as well as other Middle-Eastern instruments like the zurna." Billabong Valley live at KEXP: https://youtu.be/bvtF2Ie90m0 https://youtu.be/bvtF2Ie90m0
- hosolmaz 2y agoYou might like this then :) It was arranged by Tolgahan Cogulu, who is part of the demo at the bottom https://pdoomrecords.com/products/flying-microtonal-banana-scorebook https://pdoomrecords.com/products/flying-microtonal-banana-s...
- recursive 2y agoHow is the pitch determined? It would make sense if it was based on line length, but that doesn't seem to be it.
- crdrost 2y agoNo 19edo? I think with 24edo it's the only scheme that could outplay 12.
- apeescape 2y agoDoesn't seem to work on iOS 17.6.1 (can't hear anything when I press a key).
- jstanley 2y ago> Can you hear the difference? I can't. Is there an example that makes it clearer?
- thbb21 2y agoSome here may be interested by this fantasy for a microtonal piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw5-RAhYt80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw5-RAhYt80 Made with my software: HighC https://highc.org https://highc.org