![]() ![]() Just ignore the note names (C4, C#4 etc.) because they don’t have any relation to 22-edo. All of the Es will disappear from the piano roll. Then click on the Fold button to enable it. This will protect you from hearing these notes if you have MIDI Editor Preview enabled. This way, you won’t hear an almighty cluster of pain when you play the clip.Ĭtrl+A to select all the notes in the chord, then tap 0 to disable all the notes. Once you have added all the notes from C-2 to G8 you can move the whole chord to the left, so that it is outside of the range of the clip. Once you have made one octave you can copy and paste to fill in the rest of the notes. ![]() Then start building up a chord containing all the notes except for the Es: So let’s look at it step by step:Ĭreate yourself a new MIDI clip and make sure that Fold is disabled. Then we will enable Fold so that the Es disappear from the piano roll. We will create a MIDI clip that has one massive chord containing every note except for all the Es. This is the easiest part, and you might know this trick already if you’re knowledgeable with Ableton Live. To make this happen, we will be using the piano roll ‘Fold’ function, as well as taking a few other steps to make everything sound correct. This technique isn’t specific to 22-edo you can adapt the method for other tunings too. It’s a beautiful system that includes such wonderful intervals as the subminor third, the 7th and 11th harmonics, and near-quartertones, plus a variety of rich chords, progressions and comma pumps. Not only will this tutorial show you how to make a dope 22-note piano roll like above, but you’ll also be able to actually HEAR and PLAY music in this novel tuning system. Erlich suggests to remove all the E notes, so that you have something that looks like below: The goal of this tutorial is to recreate Rezsutek’s keyboard layout in the Ableton Live piano roll. Truth be told, I’m planning to use some of my Rhythm and Xen album sales to buy a new keyboard and make one of these for myself. Everybody in the microtonal scene right now hacks and invents their own unique stuff. Obviously this is all very DIY, but at this point in time nobody is mass producing microtonal instruments. Soon we’ll be able to 3D print each key for any given piano roll layout (this could be a great project for a music technology student). Spare keys can be found on second-hand broken keyboards or bought as replacement from the manufacturer. You also need extra black keys to make this work, so you can see a few missing at the upper end of the keyboard. There are gaps between some white keys because white keys actually come in different shapes and sizes, making things look a little messy when rearranged. This keyboard layout is Steve Rezsutek’s design as discussed in Paul Erlich’s paper Tuning, Tonality, and Twenty-Two-Tone Temperament. It was a little project of William Lynch‘s a few months ago. Check out this mindblowing M-Audio Keystation 88 with the keys rearranged to play 22-edo. Abletonalists unite!įirst I should provide some context as to why this tutorial will be so useful. ![]() You can apply this technique to other piano roll designs, with some limitations discussed later. ![]() We’re going to mod Ableton Live’s piano roll to play 22-tone equal temperament (aka 22-edo). Here’s a tutorial to help you make microtonal music in Ableton Live. ![]()
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