List And Description Of Intonation Tables - Kurzweil K2500 Reference Manual

List and Description of Intonation Tables

1 Equal
2 Classic Just
3 Just 7th
4 Harmonic
5 Just Harmonic
6 Werkmeister
7 1/5th Comma
8 1/4th Comma
9 Indian Raga
10 Arabic
11 1Bali/Java
12 2Bali/Java
13 3Bali/Java
14 Tibetan
15 CarlosAlpha
16 Pyth/aug4
17 Pyth/dim5
18 Obj v n.n
In general, you should select a non-standard intonation table when you're playing simple
melodies (as opposed to chords) in a particular musical style. When you use intonation tables
based on pentatonic scales, you'll normally play pentatonic scales to most accurately reproduce
those styles. An excellent reference source for further study of alternative tunings is Tuning In:
Microtonality in Electronic Music , by Scott R. Wilkinson.
No detuning of any intervals. The standard for modern western music.
Tunings are defined based on the ratios of the frequencies between intervals. The origi-
nal tuning of Classical European music.
Similar to classic Just, but with the Dominant 7th flatted an additional 15 cents.
The perfect 4th, Tritone, and Dominant 7th are heavily flatted.
Named for its inventor, Andreas Werkmeister. It's fairly close to equal temperament,
and was developed to enable transposition with less dissonance.
Based on the tunings for traditional Indian music.
Oriented toward the tunings of Mid-Eastern music.
Based on the pentatonic scale of Balinese and Javanese music.
A variation on 1Bali/Java, slightly more subtle overall.
A more extreme variation.
Based on the Chinese pentatonic scale.
Developed by Wendy Carlos, an innovator in microtonal tunings, this intonation table
flats each interval increasingly, resulting in an octave with quarter-tone intervals.
This is a Pythagorean tuning, based on the Greek pentatonic scale. The tritone is 12 cents
sharp.
This is a Pythagorean tuning, based on the Greek pentatonic scale. The tritone is 12 cents
flat.
Not an intonation table; indicates version number of K2500 ROM objects.
Note Numbers and Intonation Tables
List and Description of Intonation Tables
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