Microtonal Tuning Tools for Drambo (CV, MIDI, MPE)

micro64

I've recently finished putting together a set of tools for woking with microtonal tunings in Drambo, including the ability to specify custom tunings using cents, ratios, EDO etc, and output the results as CV or microtonal MIDI using appropriate pitch bend messages, with polyphony supported via MPE. Included are templates that allow Drambo to be quickly set up for use purely as a microtonal MIDI tuner to be loaded in other DAWs as a MIDI FX plugin.

There still aren't a lot of options for working with microtonality on iOS, and I think Drambo could be a very powerful tool for this. The modules I've included can be combined in some pretty interesting ways, for example morphing smoothly between two different just intonation systems, or translating ideas from one EDO to another.

Hopefully this comes in handy!

https://patchstorage.com/microtonal-tuning-tools-cv-midi-mpe/

Phil999

wow, great work. This must have been quite a bit of work. Thank you very much for sharing.

Besides, you surely know of probably the best microtonal software (PC, Mac, iOS) Entonal?
https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/entonal-studio/id1540587912?l=en-GB

micro64

@Phil999 said:
wow, great work. This must have been quite a bit of work. Thank you very much for sharing.

Besides, you surely know of probably the best microtonal software (PC, Mac, iOS) Entonal?
https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/entonal-studio/id1540587912?l=en-GB

Thank you! Indeed it was a bit of work but I'd genuinely wanted these tools for my own purposes for some time now so that was a good motivation to get it finished.

I do own Entonal as well and it's great, I just wanted something that was a lot simpler without the bells and whistles, with the added advantage of working directly with CV. Drambo is also so incredibly light weight and stable (I don't think I've ever managed to make it crash) so it's hard to beat on that front. I do also use Entonal though and it's very nice as a standalone way of exploring new tuning systems.

bleep

@micro64 said:
There still aren't a lot of options for working with microtonality on iOS, and I think Drambo could be a very powerful tool for this. The modules I've included can be combined in some pretty interesting ways, for example morphing smoothly between two different just intonation systems.

If you have a short demo video of this I'd love to see it.

Phil999

again thanks. Another notch to get more involved with Drambo.

I wonder, what MIDI-CV interface do you use with the iPad?

micro64

@bleep said:

@micro64 said:

If you have a short demo video of this I'd love to see it.

I do plan on making some videos demonstrating that idea, among other things, but I would like for the examples to be musically satisfying in their own right so it may take me a while. If you'd like to try it you can simply use any two of the CV tuners and crossfade between their outputs, like in the attached screenshot. This works polyphonically too.

@Phil999 said:

I wonder, what MIDI-CV interface do you use with the iPad?

I haven't actually incorporated Drambo with any external hardware yet so I'm not much use here. I've been meaning to look into this myself!