Tuning Page; Creating A User-Defined Tuning - Native Instruments Absynth 5 Reference Manual

10.7 Tuning Page

Tuning page
On the Tuning Page you can tune ABSYNTH 5 in a great deal of detail: You can assign any
individual key to any pitch, which does not have to follow any common scales. In this sense
you can produce any desired alternative tuning. You can load different, predefined tunings
from ABSYNTH's Universal Library.

10.7.1 Creating a User-defined Tuning

To create your own Tuning, you must first design a new Tuning. This takes place in a manner
entirely parallel to the creation of a new waveform: Open the Tuning Selector in the Global
Settings Bar of the Perform Window. There you can choose from a series of predefined Factory
Tunings. By clicking on the New button, a new User Tuning is created, which in contrast to
the Factory Tuning can change as much as you want. The display then switches automatically
to the TuningNow set the basic tone for your new Tuning in Base Key control. Finally, select
in Note control the Note that you would like to tune. You can enter the tuning of the note
either as a MIDI note number (Note control), in Hertz (Frequency control) or in the form of
a ratio with the note given in Base Key control acting as a base. The three value fields, Note
control, Frequency control (Hz), and Ratio control, correlate; that is, if you change the value
for one of the three controls, the other two controls show the same value in their own unit.
After you tune all of the notes according to your desires, you can save your new Tuning using
the Transform menus in the Universal Library. You can then always return to this Tuning.
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