Topic: Porcupines on Absynth

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From: Herman Miller (2005-10-11)
Subject: Porcupines on Absynth

Gene Ward Smith described a tuning on the tuning-math list that could be 
considered a sort of circulating 15-note scale; since I've recently been 
playing with Absynth 3 and retuning old MIDI files for practice, I 
decided to find out what the 15-ET Mizarian Porcupine Overture would 
sound like in this tuning. This is really pushing the limit of what my 
5-year-old system can do in real time, but I think it turned out okay. 
Percussion is the Edirol VSC.

http://home.comcast.net/~teamouse/porcupine-absynth-blackwood.mp3

Compare with the original 15-ET:

http://home.comcast.net/~teamouse/porcupine-absynth.mp3

Here's the Scala file of the tuning:

! blackbeat15.scl
Blackwood[15] with brats of -1
! generator g is unique real root of 9g5+20g4+80g3-128 = 0
15
!
82.836732
157.163268
240.000000
322.836732
397.163268
480.000000
562.836732
637.163268
720.000000
802.836732
877.163268
960.000000
1042.836732
1117.163268
1200.000000