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We are very lucky today with tuning of virtual instruments.
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Out with the manual and tools with the hoods up. Many of these things needed re alignment for them to go back to sweetness. Oberheim oscillators for example can get a little sour and detuned over time. Many of them did not track perfectly over several octaves. It required them to all warm up and then adjusting them all one by one. A tuning meter will tell how any chorus is behaving.īack in the day when I had a lot of analog synth gear getting them all in tune was quite a feat. If you are using a chorus always consider slowing down the movement and just making it less deep. Synth chorus effects can modulate the tuning either side of A 440 and that sometimes is not a good idea. Synth effects can definitely sway things tuning wise and it pays to check. The JV2080 varies its tuning either side.
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Tuning also varies from patch to patch too. My Roland JD800 is bang on but the Kawai K5000W for some reason is always about 5 cents sharp and just needs to tweaked down. When you tweak these and get them all sitting right on A440 everything sounds sweet again. Sourness starts to come into the tuning intonations of combined synths. If one synth is at say -6 cents and another is at +7 cents compared to A440 then they are 13 cents apart and they are starting to sound detuned and in a not so good way. Not by much but either side of A400 by varying degrees. The thing I have found is in fact they are all over the place. External hardware as well as virtual instruments. This thread has got me checking a little more closely into tuning. With these patched direct to an analog mixer I have one of those old Korg WT12 chromatic tuners which I actually believe are better than almost anything since. Most of my hardware synths are actually in tune and better than the virtual counterparts though. All you can do in these cases is just centre the tuning so any movement is even either side of A 440. They tend to move about either side of it. Many patches have got detuning between dual oscillators and effects added in and they will not sit still right on 440.
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For some of my synths eg Arturia Jupiter 8 for example some of the patches are quite sharp and need to be pulled back down a little. So this thread has got me thinking it may be best to actually check some of these tunings. Good question though because when I checked many of mine even when the master tune was on 440 some of the patches seemed a little sharp or flat too. The studio grand piano seems to be stretch tuned though.Īll of my third party synths offer master tuning. And it seems they cannot be master tuned. The Studio One instruments seem to be in tune. The built in Studio One tuner seems to do a fine job.