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~Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. 17 edo Hanson harmonic series segment improvisation Linnstrument Musical Technique Parva performance

Oddsound MTS Retuning the Parva MPE Synth Proof of Concept

Taken by Chris Vaisvil

Now that Oli from Oddsound assisted me with getting the MTS system to work with Equator 2 I tried to apply the same routing to my Futuresonus Parva 8 voice MPE synth. The Parva is now a rare kickstarter synth that was an early entry into the MPE hardware world. Unfortunately I was unable to talk Brad, the designer of this synth, into adding microtonal capability. MTS is the answer to that wish. While I could get the Linnstrument => MTS => Parva to work nicely in play mode in Cakewalk, I ran into severe problems when I tried to record in Cakewalk. So, I recorded these sound files into my Zoom H2 using the headphone out of my audio interface into the H2 and then to monitoring headphones. I still have work to do to determine what is at fault. However, even getting this far is still a win. Three examples follow – 17 edo, Gene Ward Smith Hanson, and Harmonic Series segment 16 – 32.

Disconcerted in 17 EDO download
GWS Hanson Behind Bars download
Fragments 16-48 Harmonic Trap download