Music & Techniques by Chris Vaisvil: Recent Episodes
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I use my old Roland GR-20 to play Pianoteq’s new modeled classical guitar in Bohlen-Pierce tuning. The only mod I did was to put a capo on the 9th fret so that the open low E string would be the lowest note of the modeled guitar.
Created with by re-tuning and editing two versions of the same set of 5 female voices that originated as 5 lines in different time signatures and repeating loop at different lines of single notes. These these were combined and re-tuned in Bohlen-Pierce and then the BP tuned version to Melodyne’s adaptive JI. Both required significant […]
This was performed on a M-Audio Q49 using Pianoteq’s classical guitar voice in 10 note per octave tuning.
This was performed on a M-Audio Q49 using Pianoteq’s classical guitar voice in 1/4 comma meantone tuning.
This time around I took the 17 equal soprano vocal line, ditched the 12 equal piano part and created a new accompaniment using pianoteq in 17 equal, NY Steinway full rebuild. I edited the vocals and piano accompaniment significantly as well as the production.
While this was originally conceived as a test track in 12 equal, by using melodyne I converted the 12 equal version to 17 equal with a small amount of editing as a proof of concept. A better quality revision would be to transtune the vocals and piano separately. Pianoteq, Synthesizer Studio V and Cakewalk was […]
A short composition created with 6 instances of u-he Brazille and a field sample I captured. The tuning is a just intonation version of Bohlen-Pierce as shown below.! BP13.scl!JI BP13!27/2525/219/77/575/495/39/549/2515/77/363/2525/93/1
A simple short piece using my 11 limit only JI tuning, 12 note version. A read-along scordatura is provided above.
Tuning used ! D:\cakewalk\scales\23rd_harmonic_in_12.scl!23rd harmonic12!17/169/819/165/421/1611/823/163/213/87/415/82/1
Waving Soy is a piece for solo piano played on an Alesis Q88 midi controller using Pianoteq 7 in Bohlen-Pierce tuning (equal temperament version). I recommend that you watch it full screen to see the wind blowing across the soy bean field. The Cakewalk generated scordatura at eighth note resolution is below to download.
Learning to Trust by Chris Vaisvil Learning to Trust is an album all in 19 edo in various shades of alternative & indie genres. I hope you enjoy it.