[Pd] Tuning a Mac

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Thu Apr 13 07:38:01 CEST 2006


On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

> I'm having this problem again.  I checked all the pitch bends, still PD
> on OSX puts out a different pitch for 440 than the keyboard puts out for
> A.  This time I checked by ear and did the math and it is exactly the
> ratio between 48000 and 44100.  I normally use 48000 at home on WinXP,
> but this is a Mac version of Pd, and I've only ever used 44100 on Mac.
> What could be causing Pd to play out of tune by almost a whole step?

48000/44100 is 1.467 semitones and that isn't "almost a whole step" in any
way, if you're as seriously into microtonality as you put it.

dwarf 12-tET some more and then try again.

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