I am wondering about this as well. That tuning parameter is fussy to work with since most changes you want to make are small, say -0:04.0 to lower the pitch on a tom, or +0:02.5 to raise a cymbal. But the first two digits are for making large/huge tuning changes. I only ever edit thet 3rd and maybe 4th digit from the left. It would be easier to have a single number with one decimal point like there is for the level parameter. -4.0, +2.5 etc…
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Aha, thank you John! I think that tuning with an octave:semitone.cent format is not intuitive:
Several octaves of tuning is rare with drums/cymbals/percussion so that first digit is largely unnecessary and complicates entering in normal smaller changes
With 12 semitones per octave a tuning of 0:11.5 would be almost an octave higher, not 11.5% higher as it appears
But, 0:0.11 *is* 11% of a semitone higher since there are 100 cents per semitone
Seems confusing to me. But maybe I am slow in the brain… 🙂 It would be easier to just use a normal numerical scale with a decimal point like volume level uses.
Thank you for listening!
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I always seem to be fiddling with cent and not semitones or octaves. My guess is the values were chosen for percussion where it may work on some items. Octaves definitely don’t sound right on drums. Maybe some use it for certain effects though.
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Octaves are definitely good for effects, especially with percussion. In many cases on the old Roland D-50s, many of the background effects in a patch were sped up drum and percussion loops a couple of octaves up.
Fer sure it is useful, occasionally. That insustrial classic anvil/metal/hammer klang sound from the early 90’s is a tambourine tuned way down.
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This makes sense. Use cents to tune a drum to the closest note in a 440Hz equal temperment scale. Then move up and down with the semitones/octave to find what fits best in the mix.
Easier than all in cents.
Thanks All
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