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Harmonics 12 to 30 in 15

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I have been exploring Sonar X1 and one of the ideas on my list was to apply the apreggiator to a piece of music that was classical and used the harmonic series – just sounded like a good idea. Well, here is the realization of that idea. Using pianoteq 3.6 and Sonar X1 I recorded an improvisation with arpeggiator at eight notes and 2 octaves and a BPM of 60. I used a 15 note tuning with harmonics 12 to 30 reduced to an octave – and then repeated for every octave. The arpeggiated notes are purposefully quieter in order to provide a “cloud” of notes in support of the main themes.

Harmonics 12 to 30 in 15

The tuning used is listed below:

! E:\Cakewalk\scales\12to30harm12.scl
!
12 to 30 in octave harm
15
!
25/24
13/12
9/8
7/6
29/24
5/4
4/3
17/12
3/2
19/12
5/3
7/4
11/6
23/12
2/1

3 replies on “Harmonics 12 to 30 in 15”

Yes I have heard that excellent piece – and the several covers done on youtube as well. Thank you for pointing out that excellent piece!

Chris

Just stumbled upon this as I’m studying for a electrical engineering license exam….very fascinating….have you heard Jaco Pastorius’ “Portrait of Tracy”? It’s a solo bass playing almost entirely in harmonics…he was a pioneer. Thought you might like it…..

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