Peterson 490ST Strobe tuner....good?

[Charles Neuman]

> From: "Richard Brekne" <richard.brekne@grieg.uib.no>
>
> Actually,, thats kind of one of the things I am looking at in useing the 12th
> as the holding point. In keeping any particular interval type at a constant
> beat rate... you automatically curve all other types for that interval... and
> ditto for other intervals and their types.
>
> Keeping a constant beat rate for the 12th (and I use the perfect 12th for ease
> right now and because it actually works pretty good), causes the different
> octave types to develope along very predictable lines... or curves as it were.
> And whats neat about it is that they seem to rather make these exact
> transitions quite smoothly, and well within what we otherwise expect from these
> kinds of octave stretching schemes.

That sounds pretty interesting. Can you elaborate on it a bit? (Or is that
in one of your recent emails about TuneLab experiments you've been doing
-- I saved those for later...) I'm confused as to what is beating with
what here and in general what's going on.

Thanks,

Charles Neuman