Hi,
Yes, the tuning setting on the PERFORM tab affects the whole Synchron Player instance.
Best,
Paul
Paul Kopf Product Manager VSL
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Hi Paul, thank you.
I tried something with the Perform tuning but it appears the global tuning was not the problem actually . I'm talking about Synchron Violas.
On Synchron Violas, Cantabile Patch (Long/Soft/Cantabile), F3 and F#3 are out of tune (F#3 even more than F3). Tune is dramatically low.
Please find an attached audio file, C3 chromatic scale, successively Soft/Cantabile/Light Vib & Soft/Regular/NoVib. At the end, octaves F3/F4 & F#3/F#4, Cantabile and Regular again.
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Just listen to carefully, the scale starts on C3, the faulty notes are F and F#.
I noticed that on a line featuring D-F#-A. The D/F# major 3rd interval is terrible (and the minor 3rd F#/A too indeed)...
Both F and F# octaves are dissonant on Cantabile patch.
As checked with a tuner:
- G3 is similar, whatever Cantabile or Regular
- F3: 348Hz (Cantabile) vs 350Hz (Regular)
- F#3: 368Hz (Cantabile) vs 372Hz (Regular).
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Javajam, I've put your audio clip into Melodyne Studio 4 to get a reasonably objective look at the pitches. From my experience and many laboratory-type tests using a calibrated external 10-digit counter/timer, I treat Melodyne's pitch detection as accurate only to within about ±3 cents, typically within ±2 cents. Nevertheless Melodyne - carefully used - is a very useful tool and it told me the following about your audio clip:
f4 Vib: -5 cents; f4 NoVib: +5 cents.
f#4 Vib: -14 cents: f#4 NoVib: +5 cents.
So I concur with you about the f#4 Vibrato being too far out of tune, even for a rich vibrato type of articulation which usually can cloak a lot of tuning sins.
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f4 Vib: -5 cents; f4 NoVib: +5 cents.
f#4 Vib: -14 cents: f#4 NoVib: +5 cents.
Hi Macker,
Thank you so much for your efforts, it confirms the respective frequencies I reported on one of my comments a while ago.
Knowing that my instruments are tuned @442Hz (the +5 cents you reported I guess, should be a bit more but the difference only is relevant here), the difference in cents I can calculate from the frequency gap is particularly similar to yours:F3: 350Hz (Regular) vs 348Hz (Cantabile) = 9.92 cents (your result = 10 cents)
F#3: 372Hz (Regular) vs 368Hz (Cantabile) = 18.72 cents (your result = 19 cents)
Furthermore, rich vibrato tends to go to higher pitch better than to a lower one indeed... And whatever it couldn't be a global 8 Violas low tune.
With global tuning @442Hz, accurate notes frequencies in equal tempered scale are:
F3 = 350.82Hz
F#3 = 371.68Hz
To sum up, F3 is 1/10th tone too low, F#3 is 1/5th tone too low, we're close to oriental scale there...
Best,
Alain
