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This tutorial shows sound frequency modulation sound design using FMTS 2. This synth is developed by Xen-Arts and allows you to play microtonal scales, so I wanted to show a basic workflow that will give you some familiar FM synth sounds. At the end of the video you should be able to able to make an FM bass sound that wouldn't feel out of place on a Yamaha TX81Z, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game, or AdLib sound card. Of course, FMTS 2 is much more powerful than that, and the workflow shown in this video can become the starting point for something much more interesting. Xen-Arts produce many VST instruments which allow you to play microtonal music. So far all of these VSTs are free, so there's no harm to get em all.

This tutorial shows you how to export microtonal scales using Scala tuning software. You can use your exported scale files to tune up various synths that support these files. Three important types of tuning file are Scala tuning files (.scl/.kbm), AnaMark tuning files (.tun), and MIDI tuning standard tuning dumps (.mid sequence with sysex data). You can produce all of these tuning files using the free software Scala. Of course there are other standards in use, and Scala supports a lot of those too. Three commands you'll learn in this tutorial are: set synth 112 -- sets up for exporting .tun files set synth 107 -- sets up for exporting MIDI tuning dumps show synthesizer -- shows a list of support synths Scala can tune practically any kind of microtonal scale you want. Traditional tunings, equal temperaments, just intonation, empirical scales, moment of symmetry, combination product sets, they're all possible. Then you can retune various synths using the method shown here.

Now&Xen is a podcast for casual chat about microtonal music, tunings and music theory. It’s hosted by Stephen Weigel and Sevish with occasional guests. Listen on your podcast app or on the website.

Scale Workshop allows you to design microtonal scales and play them in your web browser. Export your scales for use with VST instruments. Convert Scala files and AnaMark Tun files to various tuning formats. Background music: Sevish - In The Zoon (23-edo) This has been a labour of love for almost 2 years - I hope that many people will find it useful! If you want to share any work you've created with Scale Workshop then I'd love to hear about it. Now that Scale Workshop is in a stable state, I am going to focus my attention back on composing new music and hosting the Now&Xen microtonal podcast.

Here's how to use microtonal scales to make your computer music wavy and wonderful. This xenharmonic tutorial should work in any DAW because I'm demonstrating the plugin method here. Microtonal music is a deep topic, and this video is just a starting point. If you know of alternative approaches then please share them in the comments to help out others! Note: while this video shows the Zyn-Fusion synth, these days I would recommend Surge XT as a free software synth with amazing microtonal support. If you're looking for a powerful synth for ANY tuning, start with Surge XT!

How does the tuning of a piece of music affect how it feels? If I take the same piece of music and re-tune it in different ways, we can make a comparison, right? So listen to this and judge for yourself.

Some folks say that microtonal music sounds 'spicy.' Well 12edo is spicy too - you just get de-sensitized to its taste after over-exposure. But there is a way to experience 12edo again, to get a fresh sense of its character! You take a microtonal track that you're really familiar with, re-tune it to 12edo and listen through. I found that all tunings have a mood of their own, just like Ivor Darreg said. You choose a particular tuning to infuse its mood into your composition. I hope this video is a working demonstration of that effect.

'Unreality' in three tunings, 17edo, 7edo and 12edo. Each tuning sounds different to the original just intonation used on this track. The final 12edo section uses a different mode to the earlier 12edo sections. There are some wrongly tuned notes starting 4:02, ignore those!

Bubble will be released to Bandcamp and streaming services on January 1st. This premiere is your one chance to hear the album before its official release! All tracks were written in 2019/2020, everything microtonal (22edo, 7edo and JI).

Here I explain that one section in Starfish where it keeps getting faster but somehow returns back to its original tempo. The way I did this was quite easy and could be done in almost any DAW. If you want to hear some music that slows down to reach a faster, more upbeat section, type "langgam jawa" into youtube and you can find hundreds of examples. I've heard Autechre and Aphex Twin tunes that use Risset rhythms also.

A mix of microtonal bass music from the split-notes catalogue. - Tony Dubshot - Psionics - knowsur - OUCHI - Elaine Walker - ZIA - Skate Space - Jacky Ligon - Only Once - müesk - Mnemosyne - Sevish - Ganymede - Fature - Salamander - Skueue - Benthi - Tony Dubshot - Beta Stability - Tony Dubshot - Ancient Dub

Ibreak down an electronic drum part and explain some of the processes and choices that happened. Sometimes I get asked how I do my drums and this track was a simple example that should hopefully answer those questions. Just this week I started a Ko-fi for anybody who wants another way to support the music things I do. Subscribing there will give you access to more behind-the-scenes content as I continue to chip away at music projects in the background.

Let's listen together! Morphable is the new album of microtonal electronic music by Sevish, releasing on August 5th 2022. This listening party will happen August 6th (Saturday) to give more people the chance to join. Have a jolly nice time in live chat, and please consider subscribing and sharing to help me spread these sounds.

I show you how to do custom microtonal piano rolls in Bitwig Studio because let's be honest who else is going to show you this stuff? If you're working with music scales that have more or less than 12 notes, especially large scales, you might need the piano roll to visually reflect what's going on in your scale. You can make it happen in just a few minutes using layered editing mode and MIDI clips.

Korg Monologue microtonal ambient performance This is a melodic deep exploration of the 2)5 dekany with factors 1-3-5-7-9. The dekany contains five different 6-note subsets called hexanies. In this piece of music, each section uses a different hexany. You might hear that each hexany has its own clear and distinct colour. A 1:3:5:7:9 drone plays throughout to accompany the melodies. The fascinating thing is, the resulting dekany doesn't contain 1/1, therefore the melodies never use 1/1 from the drone and therefore don't quite "come home"; they always float on top in a harmonious way. The Korg Monologue is a monophonic analogue synthesiser which allows for custom "microtonal" tunings. I set up one tuning for each of the five hexanies, and then assigned those tunings to a series of saved patches. To perform the piece and its modulating through hexanies, I simply needed to perform my way through this series of pre-prepared patches. Each scale is linearly mapped to the keyboard.

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0:00 Zero Nothings 3:32 Pwns 7:05 Who Knows 11:29 Door Into Fantasy 16:54 Backtrace 22:37 Bare Layers 25:57 There Is Something Else 34:16 Oscid 42:26 End