MidiTuner

[Don Mannino]

The tuning of a midi instrument must be set by the instrument making the sound. The midi data contains no actual sound - only instructions for how to play the sound.  Therefore is isn't possible to alter the tuning of the midi file, only to tell the instrument (or computer) which is playing the midi file to use a different tuning.

It should be possible for a midi file to contain instructions which tell the instrument to use a different tuning - I am not familiar enough with the midi instruction set to know. I will ask some experts at Kawai on Monday, or maybe someone who is really up on midi instructions here on the list will respond.  Many digital pianos have multiple temperaments built in, so it would simply be a matter of telling the instrument to switch from one to another.  I doubt that all instruments would use the same instructions, though.

Don Mannino RPT



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org 
> [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
> Of Ola Andersson
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 2:48 AM
> To: pianotechlist; Robert Scott
> Subject: MidiTuner
> 
> 
> Hi list. 
> You are the best school I've been to.
> 
>         _________Midi Tuner_________
> 
> I don´t know enough about computers but maybe somebody could 
> help me this.
> Maybe you´ve alreddy disgused this or a program like this exist.
> 
> Is it possible to put a program between a midifile and a 
> midiplayer that
> change the temprement on the song. 
> 
> For example:
> To play a piece of Bach in different temprements
> or
> To play a jazztune with a HT in different keys (with out 
> modulating the temp)?
> 
> I think here of the possibility for downloading the costumers 
> favorite song 
> from internet and play it with different temprements, keys  
> and maybe even
> with different stretch. The point is  to give the costumer  a 
> picture of how
> the tuning could sound on the piano. This could be done with a laptop.
> 
> I don't beleave that the digital sound can produce the end 
> result, but it
> could be a taste of the possibillites and a very nice service 
> for costumers. 
> 
> Hairdressers and archetechts has this possibillities. 
> This program could be little and fast I suppose. 
> 
> Could it  be driven through a TuneLab or another 
> tuningprogram so the choosen
> temp could be tuned directly. 
> 
> Do I have to make this program myself?!?<g>
> 
> I can see I have som wrong spellings here but can't (or 
> bother to) find my
> english dictionary.
> I don´t think my english teacher is on this list so I take a chance.
> 
> Hoping this could be a intresting subject and that I was clear enough
> (.....for a sunday morning).
> 
> Have a nice day
> 
> Yours
> Ola Andersson
> Bergen, Norway
>