Klarinet Archive - Posting 000162.txt from 2003/12

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pitch on computer play
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 19:58:15 -0500

How far off from A 440 is your playback, Dan? My guess is that you can buy
software to change pitch by cents or frequency but I've never looked around
for it. Using Finale I just wrote six bars of middle C then transposed it
to C on the staff, calibrated my old KORG tuner to A 440 and looked at the
playback. Middle C came out plus or minus 5 cents. C on the staff showed
no variation from center. The sensitivity of my KORG tuner stops being
acceptable plus or minus 2 octaves from C on the staff.

I find Finale to be unwieldy to use for play-along purposes. I create Type
I MIDI files and use MasterTracks Pro 6.0 to play along with them. I can
easily transpose things up and down by half steps and the tempo can be
easily changed. MasterTracks went out of business years ago. I'd like to
hear from others on KLARINET what playback programs they use because I'm
really in the market for something that works better with Windows XP. My
MasterTracks can't recognize filenames longer than 8 characters.

Oliver

At 03:53 PM 12/7/2003, you wrote:
>I use Finale and want to play along with some of the things I have in
>it. But I'm not in tune.
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>I dropped a note to Finale and they said that the establishment of pitch
>is not part of their system, it is in the computer generation of it where
>the problem lies.
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>Is there a way to adjust the pitch on a Windows 98 PC system??
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>Dan Leeson
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