Keyboard Tuning - E-Mu PX-7 Owner's Manual

Keyboard Tuning

In addition to the standard equally divided octave tuning, PX-7 contains
twelve factory programmed tunings and 12 user-definable tunings. The
Keyboard Tuning parameter selects which tuning is used by the current
preset. The User Tuning tables are defined in the Global menu.
The factory Keyboard Tuning tables are described in the following table.
Tuning Tables
Equal Temperament
Just C
Vallotti
19-Tone
Gamelan
Just C2
Just C-minor
Just C3
Werkmeister III
Kirnberger
Scarlatti
Repeating Octave
User 1-12
Refer to "User Key Tuning" on page 156 in the Global Menu chapter for
instructions on how to define your own Keyboard Tunings.
Description
Standard Western tuning
12 equally spaced notes per octave.
Just intonation. Based on small interval ratios. Sweet
and pure, non-beating intervals.
Valotti & Young non-equal temperament. Similar to 12
tone equal temperament. Each key has a different
character for a given scale.
19 tone equal temperament. 19 notes per octave.
Difficult to play, but works well with a sequencer.
5 tone Slendro and 7 tone Pelog. (Javanese.) Pelog are
white keys, Slendro are black keys. Exotic tunings of
Gamelan flavor.
Allows you to play the following chords in the key of C:
C, E, F, G, A, B, C#m, D#m, Em, F#m, G#m, Am, Bm
Allows you to play the following chords in the key of C:
C, E, F, G, A, B, Em, Am, Bm, C#m, D#m, G#m
Allows you to play the following chords in the key of C:
C, D, F, Bb, C#m, Dm, Em, F#m, G#m, Am
A "well" temperament developed in the 17th century.
Although you can play in all keys, each key sounds
slightly different.
Another well temperament developed by Johann
Philipp Kirnberger where no pitch is more than 12
cents off from equal temperament.
A variant of Meantone tuning which was used from the
15th to 18th centuries.
Middle C octave is repeated up and down the keyboard.
Link with a preset in equal temperament to form
unusual inversions up and down the keyboard.
Define your own tuning tables (Global menu).
Preset Edit Menu
Keyboard Tuning
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