getting fucked up thinking about how a perfect tuning system is impossible for like... math reasons
don’t like this defect built into the fundamental nature of reality
not a fan of equal temperament as a compromise driven by atonal music either 🤔
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hard to tell how much of this is priming but really sounds to me like there’s a big difference between the meantone and equal temperament recordings here. damn
kylegann.com/histune.html
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neural network that detects key changes and dynamically tunes your keyboard for just intervals as you play??
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Nothing so complicated is needed. Hermode tuning already works pretty well, and is supported by various DAWs and VSTs.
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It's surprising that old fashioned temperaments haven't become more in vogue in popular music, as many songs are in one key, and 2020-era keyboards often have alternative temperaments. This would give pop bands purer fifths and sweeter thirds.
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Yes remember being so annoyed by this when I first found out about it.
Still really annoying actually
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This isn't really built into the nature of reality, just the nature of musical notation / pianos.
For vocals, strings, trombone, synth, you can have music that sounds perfectly harmonious (or disharmonious).
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I mean, isn't it close enough?
Does the fact that it mostly works for listeners imply that perfect tuning is over precise w.r.t. the imperfect biology that's perceiving it?
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This is one reason why a cappella choral singing can be really fun: it's comparatively easy to make small variations in tuning even for one chord. Often you'll make it a bit more "just" to make it really pop.
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Is there like a generalized Gödel's theorem which just says "you can't have nice consistent things"?
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