Jim, you wrote that the new SAT3 has more memory. How many tunings (pages) is maximum on this machine? The SAT 2 could go to 208, and I've almost maxed out the two machines I carry with me! Jim Coleman, Sr. wrote: > Hi John: > > The new SAT III has only two additional buttons more than the fully loaded > SAT II. The new buttons are the UP/DN PAGE buttons which make selecting > the memory page a little easier. In the location where the Test SCORE > button used to be, there is now a second SHIFT 2 button. This allows several > regular buttons to have a second and third use. Kinda' like the CTRL and ALT > keys on a computer, or the Command and option keys on a MACintosh. > With the SHIFT 2 button and the DN CENTS buttons you can now see how much > battery charge is left. With the regular SHIFT button held down, you can > now set up the SAT III to auto-step either up or down or both directions. > For those who like to practice their aural temperament scheme with each > tuning, there is the capability of storing 4 different tuning schemes which > can be selected with the SHIFT-UP/DN OCTave buttons. For those who would > like to turn a regular FAC Equal Temperament tuning into an Historical > Tuning, one of 14 previously stored temperaments can be selected with the > use of the regular SHIFT button and the UP/DN OCTave buttons. For those who > would like less stretch or more stretch, Holding down the reg. SHIFT button > and touching the UP/DN CENTS buttons will allow one to control the stretch > of the double octave matching with a commensurate change in the single > octave matching. This can be used anywhere "on-the-fly" so to speak. So, if > there are some parts of the scale where you would like a little more > stretch, just go for it. The normal stretch gives 1 bps stretch of the > double octave. You can vary that in increments of .1 beat. > > The SHIFT 2 Green button is used primarily in giving yourself a PTG > Tuning Test. Holding down SHIFT 2 and touching NOTE DN button will store > whatever note you had selected before as being the lowest note of your > temperament to be scored. Holding down SHIFT2 and touching DN OCTave button > will begin the scoring of your Temperament previously selected. All SAT > III's have all of these functions in addition to the MIDI capability for > storing all memory to a computer or another SAT II or III. > > One can now have up to 4 Master Tunings for the PTG TEST program. ie, if you > are a CTE, and are working two or more Tuning Testing rooms, you don't have > to re-enter a complete Master Tuning more than once to give tests in both > rooms, actually, up to 4 rooms. All of the PTG Testing programs are in the > same location as they were in the earlier SATs, 5 separate pages below page > zero. They are called EEE for Examinee's tuning page, POI for Points Score > page, SUP for SUPer Tuning or Master tuning page, DFF for Difference page, > UUU for UntUUning page. Once you have read in a Master Tuning from an FAC > tuning, you can give yourself an aural tuning test. I'm still doing that > for myself until I get 100% scores in everything. I've only done it > twice in the temperament area so far, I'm still working at it. Both times > I used the Baldassin Sanderson Kimbell Tremper aural temperament. When I > get to where my DFF page shows no difference more than .3 cents from the > SUP page, I will feel that I'm a really good tuner. I'm within .7 cents > now. I'm not bragging, just showing you the fun of the challenge. > > The LCD displays have an additional digit in each window to indicate a > particular status. > > My favorite new features are the auto-stepping and the Stretch control of > the double octave. > > The new machine is smaller, and can be held in one hand. Double buttons > can be touched with one hand. The battery lasts longer. I used the machine > off an one for two weeks before the battery dropped down to 75% charge. > > There is more memory as standard. The display is the same dependable eight > LEDs which display in beat fashion which is more related to what we hear. > Improved filter system makes reading even the F3 partial 8 easier and the > FAC numbers are now saved with the tuning record. > > Oh well, you asked for it. Please excuse me if I seem to be over exuberant. > > Jim Coleman, Sr. > > On Sat, 23 May 1998, John Ross wrote: > > > Hi Jim, > > Now that you have brought up the subject of SAT 111, would it be > > possible to give us an initial preview of your evaluation. > > I for one would really like to know. > > Regards, > > John M. Ross > > PTG Assoc. > > Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada > > > >
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