offsetting an SAT page -Reply

[Kent Swafford]

>Kent Swafford wrote:
>>
>
>> Michael,
>>
>> I always thought that the easiest way to get the SAT pitch raise function
>> to target a non-A=440 pitch was to calculate/store an FAC tuning with an
>> offset to the desired pitch level.
>>
>> Kent Swafford
>>
>
>It is, indeed, as long as you stick on a straight FAC calculated
>tuning.  However, I don't always find FAC calculation thoroughly
>appropriate, specially in the tenor break.  That's why a good number
>of my pages are actual FAC tunings slightly "improved" by aural tests
>and partials calculations.  Most of the time, the call is for 440 and
>that's where all my stored pages sit.  But when I have to raise the
>pitch up to 442 and if I want to stick on my "personnalised" page,
>then we get in a totally different story.
>
>That where I find the offset by the calibration mode most useful (see
>my posting "SAT Offset, recalling the Tip of the Year").
>
>Regards,
>
>Michel Lachance, RPT

Michael,

     Once again you catch me speaking incompletely.  I was assuming that
an FAC tuning would be sufficient for a pitch correction, and that for
the final pass(es) you could switch back to your custom tuning with a
normal offset.

Kent