[LAD] 'A' note Tuning Range

John Rigg ladev9 at jrigg.co.uk
Thu Apr 11 10:16:29 CEST 2019


On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 09:21:09PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote:
> Currently in 'Scales' Yoshimi can set this anywhere between 1Hz and 2kHz, which
> is frankly ridiculous.
> 
> This doesn't appear at all in the Scala documentation, so that's no guide.
> 
> I've had suggestions ranging from +- 1/2 semitone to +- half octave as being
> more than enough, considering that there is also semitone master key shift
> covering +- 3 octaves (used to be 5!) along with a fine detune of +63 -64
> cents.

A Korg GA-1 tuner can go down to 5 semitones flat. It's quite common
in the heavier styles of rock music to downtune a few semitones.

John


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