If you click on the MicroTuner tab in Setup, you will see this screen.
The Micro Tuner is the essential part of the Pitch Palette. Its function is to send microtuning messages to your synthesizer.
The settings are:
The usual default is A=440 Hertz, but this can be changed by clicking on the spin buttons. The Base Pitch is used in conjunction with the Scale and the Key to create the starting note for each of the 12 Keys.
The initial default scale is the Harmonic Classic scale, which is based on pure overtones. You can choose any scale from the menu of international and historic scales by clicking on the down arrow, which is on the right hand side of the scale name.
Selecting a Key creates the starting note for each of the 12 Roots, or tonal centres, in that Key.
In order for just intonation to remain harmonious during a composition, the tonal center will change, depending on the melody. Selecting a Root will adjust the tuning of your synthesizer so that it is tuned according to the intervals of the Scale you have chosen, with the first note starting on the Root of the chosen Key.
Clicking on the light above the word AutoRoot will toggle the Auto Root feature ON (green light) or OFF.
When the Auto Root feature is On, the Pitch Palette will automatically change the Root when it detects a new chord that requires a new tonal centre. The Root it selects is set in The Chord Detector.
You can enable or disable the automatic Root selection feature at any time.
This feature may be limited by the capabilities of your synthesizer. If your synth cannot change the tuning of a note while it is sustained (Hanger OFF), the notes being played before a new Root is selected will remain tuned to the old Root while the new notes will be tuned to the tuning for the new Root, possibly causing dissonance. If this is the case, you can get around this by playing the chord again after the Root has been automatically selected, or Root the chord manually before playing it.
Clicking on the light above the word Hanger will toggle the Hanger option
ON (green light) or OFF.
When a tonal centre changes, some of the notes are retuned.
Notes that are sustained when the synth receives a tuning message will be :
A description of this feature is often ovcerlooked in synthesizer manuals.
Our prototype synthesizer allows you to decide if whether it should be ON or OFF. We call it the Hanger option.
The Hanger Option is also available for any synthesizers that support the MIDI Tuning Standard for Scale Octave Tuning, which was first adopted and published in 1999.
You can change the default setting for your synth in the TestOutput screen.
Some sustain pedals have reversed polarity when attached to certain keyboards.
If your sustain pedal is acting backwards, you can reverse the polarity by changing
this setting to either Sustain On = 0 or Sustain On = 127.