<HTML><HTML> In a message dated 2/22/04 6:17:28 AM, pryan2@the-beach.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE CITE STYLE="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px" TYPE="CITE">I have rarely, if ever, found 10 % to be appropriate (common ) for a bass pitch raise and 30% seems to be a little high for a default percentage for midrage notes. </BLOCKQUOTE> Then change them.   But they're only targets.  You, as the = human being, can choose whether you want to pull the strings up to the targe= t, sharp to the target, whatever.  But they are a visual reference tha= t is constant; at that point you can use them literally or amend them along = the way. I find that the strings near the treble break will end up sharp if you raise= them to the target on a pitch raise (with the VT set on 30%).  So I t= une those a bit under the target.  Likewise the strings just under the= temperament octave, G#3 down to the tenor break.  (This all may be du= e to the order in which I pitchraise: A4, then A3, ascending to C8, then G#3= and down to A0.)  The 10% bass overpull seems to work well for me, al= though I usually pull the first two bichords below the break just a bit shar= p to the target. No one is forcing you to hit the target on the screen. Tom Sivak Chicago</HTML>