5 Tone Equal Temperament

A rough first video where I employ "Dynamic Tonality", or the changing of a timbres partials in real time to create consonance (or dissonance) within a given tuning. Here I mess around a bit with some themes on 5 tone equal temperament, or 5-edo/5-ET, a temperament reasonably dissonant with harmonic timbres but extremely (dare I say?) pretty with timbres of modified partials.

Enjoy =)

More information on tuning, dynamic tonality, and these synthesizers?
http://www.dynamictonality.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntonic_temperament
http://www.thummer.com/ThumTone/Tuning_Invariant_Layouts_Last_Draft.pdf

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[geoffreyefloyd]

great job, I messed around with this in max msp about a year ago. Wish u could do grand piano sound :)

[JLMoriart]

Thanks Geoffreye =)

I've found you can actually import patches if you're willing to find an example of, or record, each and every pitch of an instrument in 12-ET and define each as a midi value. The TFS will then remap each ones partials and only have to bend each one slightly so as to keep the timbre changes throughout the range of the instrument consistent.

I'll have to do that with my electric keyboard and post it!

[kratanuva725]

@JLMoriart Who are these synths made by? I couldn't find them on a google search. Also, I would like to hear this with a piano tone, you don't have to record it yourself, people make sample banks just for this sort of thing, try looking for a piano soundfont and rip the samples from it.

[JLMoriart]

@kratanuva725 You can find them at dynamictonality d o t com. They were designed by William Sethares with the help of Stefan Tiedje, Andrew Milne, and Anthony Prechtl. (If I had to guess Jim Plamondon was a part of it was well.)

I've figured out a little more about how to import sounds, all you need is an .mp3 or .wav of a single pitch of an instrument and through electronic transposition it will apply the sound to the whole keyboard.

[geoffreyefloyd]

interesting technique!