MOTM

Robert Rich has a T-shirt available for his great
MOTM-based Bestiary album.  It has a great picture of
a Glurp on it.  Check it out:

     http://www.robertrich.com/rrglurpshirt.html

In case you don't have a copy of the incredible CD
already, here it is along with some nice pics and 2
MP3s:

     http://www.robertrich.com/rrbestiary.html

Here is his 7-hour DVD Somnium.  I don't think the
MOTM was used on this.  Paul?  This is optimized for
playing while you sleep.

     http://www.robertrich.com/rrsomnium.html

Here is his newest release (Outpost) which also has
Ian Boddy on it.  Robert uses his MOTM extensively on
this collaboration.

     http://www.robertrich.com/rroutpost.html

Since I killed the frames with my links, here is the
front page for your further exploration:

     http://www.robertrich.com

I am not quite sure, but now he has the definitive
Rober Rich online at:

     http://www.glurponline.com

Remember that we have Robert (along with Carter
Scholz) to thank indirectly for having the MIDI
Microtuning Standard in the MOTM-650.

    
http://www.microtonalsynthesis.com/MIDItuning.html
     http://www.midi.org/about-midi/tuning.htm
     http://www.midi.org/about-midi/tuning_extens.htm

Hopefully Robert will work with Paul and the
programmers to incorporate all of the changes and
additions that have been made since 1996 including,
but not limited to:
 
     Scale/Octave Tuning
     Scale/Octave Tuning Defaults
     MIDI Tuning Bank/Dump Extensions
     Redefinition of RPN01 and RPN02 (Channel
Fine/Course Tuning)

Changing the tuning bank and program numbers is found
at the bottom of this page:

     http://www.midi.org/about-midi/table3.htm

John gives a lot of different "standard" tunings here.
 I or someone else should try and convert these into
MIDI files so that the PC and Mac frontends can
download them easily to the '650.  There are a lot of
glaring omissions in this list such as pelog (7-, 6-,
5-, 4- and 3-tone) and slendro (4- and 5-tone) tunings
(all of these represent different aspects of Balinese
and Javanese style gamelan).

     http://www.microtonalsynthesis.com/scales.html

Sorry if this is all old news for a lot of you.

--Shemp

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Somnium is non-MOTM. But still nice relaxing 'background' music. 7 straight hours!

Paul S.