By Aphter-Glo
Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:37 am
So, I have an MPC Keys; never really thought to do it with my Live II or X, but most keyboards/synths I’ve owned that can have a master tuning (i.e.’s tuning that isn’t controlled by a single potentiometer or something similar; basically analog synths) have this feature. I realize we’re working with samples in a lot of cases not exclusively plugins, so maybe that chord sequence is in Cminor, or maybe isn’t even “tuned” in the equal temperament sense, and isn’t just a drum hit or sound tuned to C or some other single note in equal temperament that’s tuning would be relative to A=440hz, but something I’ve frequently made use of with keyboards is using a specific tuning for A that isn’t 440hz (and no it’s not some weird conspiracy thing, I just prefer a slightly off from most music’s tuning if I have it available on all the equipment I’m generating sounds with). I don’t think I typically use a tuning that’s frequently mentioned in obscure or batshit “no this is the right tuning” arguments. I digress though - a lot of samples I have are tuned to standard notes - the plugins are tuned to some sort of master tuning, even if it’s not adjustable. So I’m just hoping that’s something I can adjust and, let’s say I had a kick, snare, and hihat cymbal sample tuned to C relative to A=440hz, if I adjusted a master tuning, I wouldn’t have to mess around with tuning of the kick, hat, cymbal or individual plugins, the master tuning would just cause them to be detuned however many (preferably hertz, but even cents would be nice). I mean this would be nice if you were playing with various people with various instruments - maybe your guitarist normally tunes to A=428hz or something. Or somebody’s got some weird instrument that’s tuned to something weird. With the keys more or less being sold as a workstation, if this isn’t a feature it would be nice if Akai implemented this in the OS at some point. I really don’t want to manually detune every sample I use per track (let alone figure out where (if anywhere) and how to do this in each plugin).







