The x64 Full Keyboard Microtuning Virtual Instruments List

Sounds great..though not real sure what all this means.

Pianoteq is the only product in that list that supports Linux.

Thanks, Microtuning-VI

this is another feature in Pianoteq which is rock solid. Very thankful for it - loading different tunings (old and new) is easy and inspiring.

I love experimenting with variations of past tunings, esp. for period instruments, and Pianoteq's also built in short list is a convenient go-to.

More than a few modern microtunings also have inspired me to spend quite some time in their universe (cold and dark through to florid or ethereal).

BTW - Merci for posting your works Gaston. Clicking through to hear more, there is much to enjoy - esp. some quite sublime Romantic original music among your works! Fascinating and rare. I will certainly revisit for more in time. Cheers.

Oh wow, dazric thank you so much!

Tried Hummel with the Grotrian - it's superb. Also just spent a little time with Steinway B and very impressed and keen to try it with others, incl. the period piano models.

Initial impressions:

Hadn't tried the Hummel (1 & 2) temperament - not sure how to describe - 1 seems very 'in place' whilst exhibiting all the character of something more worked and 2 is similar but with more 'filigree' and the way the multi-octave chords ring so true without being 'on rails' nor out of tune in some pointed way, is really superb, bringing greater life out of the instruments indeed.

Very sweet across octaves as if stretched a little without sounding as contrived as over stretching can - therefore good-to-go without sliding the 'condition' slider to the right to obtain a more lively, natural or organic sounding authentic 'singing' full body in the chords - and lastly there's seemingly no impediment to any set of triads at least in what I played (I might be missing some subtleties so soon into using it), so there's slim differential between what key things are played in, for 'corrective' effect. Love it. More time will certainly be spent using it.

That suggestion of the Hummel tuning is such an unexpected delight and a bonus to be gifted with - here are some .scl files on my 'recent files' list, I quite like for certain pianos/pieces.

barca (may still be a fav in a classical vein - no particular order for the remaining..)
bourdelle1
stopper
graupner

Recently CHas *via Alfredo Capurso mentioned in this thread

For further ref

That whole thread from page 1 is pretty illuminating - my thanks to all taking these levels of interest in this topic - past, present and future!

BTW - for those seeking out these tunings, they are downloadable from here:

Page with info:
Huygens Fokker scala files

The link to a .zip file at bottom of that page. Over 4700 scala files (text file size so not huge). I don't link directly to be polite (in the old school netizen sense) but also, there is some "how to" or RTFM instructions worth reviewing before trying to unzip the file on the above page.

Also it might be useful for some to just peruse a listing of all the tunings also from the Huygens Fokker.

This stuff all might seem too much to bother with and it might not matter for midi tracks in modern music (but it could help your trademark sound/style!), but in all seriousness, I do hold that the Pianoteq piano models can sound even better with appropriate tunings/temperaments. Also recommend anyone to consider downloading and applying convolution reverb files in Pianoteq (although the inbuilt reverb is fine) but that's prob for another thread.

Again thanks dazric - with 4000+ tunings, I've overlooked/missed Hummel until now and it seems to be jostling for my top 'recently used' placing already

Happy tuning all!

My old Ensoniq keyboard synth had some alternate turnings on it as well as flipping the keyboard (high notes on left and lows on right) which was interesting.

Good point and an unfortunate reality at the moment, although it is reported that the Amsynth is fully working with Scala SCL and KBM after the manner of Pianoteq:

http://amsynth.github.io/

[Need to add this to the list, once I confirm if it's actually x64 compatible.]

I've actually got several colleagues that are already using Linux for audio work, or are otherwise migrating there from Windows, all of whom are into working with alternative musical instrument intonations as a core feature of their music.

It appears that Reaper is working on Linux, so at least there is a good DAW to work with, and one microtunable VSTi: Pianoteq.

I'm following everyone's progress with great interest, but will probably remain on Windows for the foreseeable future here.

Would love to hear some of your cold, dark through to florid or ethereal microtonal pieces if you care to share. Sounds very intriguing.

I recall the ASR-10 had some type of microtuning tables functionality as well, although I can't recall if it was actually full keyboard microtuning, or only limited to 12-note octave retuning. Used to have a colleague that owned on in decades past, and I remember reading through the manual some back then about the tuning feature.

What happened to ZynAddSubFx? From a quick read of http://xen-arts.net/zynaddsubfx-microtu...s-updated/ it seems to meet the criteria?

Sadly, that version - actually the last microtunable version - is 32-bit only. Even though it is 32-bit, I've done quite a lot of custom patch sound-design in that plugin, so I'm glad that it can still be used in x64 Reaper, as well as reliably ReWired in Ableton Live. If interested, check out this article on the topic:

http://xen-arts.net/rewire-32-bit-vsti-...th-bidule/

Back in mid 2017, the project branched into the Zyn-Fusion x64 version, but it has be plagued by a veritable hive of bugs since, including, and perhaps most tragically of all in regards to the microtuning functionality. It would be good to reach out to the new developer sometime soon to see where they stand on the project, and FWIW, I actually bought a license to support the effort, although I've not been able to use it in the music as of yet. I still hold out hope that development will continue until it is completed. It's such an amazing sounding plugin for microtonal music; nothing much else like it.