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Oriental/Arabic keyboard

Postby Cazcarol » 11 Apr 2018, 12:32

Does anyone know if any of the Nord keyboards can be used to play Arabic music? Ie with quarter tones. Thanks for any help!
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Re: Oriental/Arabic keyboard

Postby cgrafx » 11 Apr 2018, 19:38

I'm curious how you would do that on a standard chromatic keyboard layout?

How would you spread out the notes out across the keybed? Seems you would need two octaves to represent one octave of notes.

Or are you just wanting to be able to pitch shift a note up or down (in which case you could do that on any of the Nord Stage series using the pitch stick)
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Re: Oriental/Arabic keyboard

Postby PScooter63 » 11 Apr 2018, 20:13

cgrafx wrote:How would you spread out the notes out across the keybed? Seems you would need two octaves to represent one octave of notes.


Wendy Carlos made extensive use of microtuning, and yes, she performed them on a standard 12-note-system keyboard. A real brain-bender to remember which pitches corresponded to a given note, but they're just a control surface, no?

It appears that her articles are still linked on the Resources page, on her website.

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Re: Oriental/Arabic keyboard

Postby Mr_-G- » 11 Apr 2018, 20:19

What about the Roli rubbery keyboards? Anybody got one?
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Re: Oriental/Arabic keyboard

Postby Cazcarol » 12 Apr 2018, 17:05

[quote="cgrafx"]I'm curious how you would do that on a standard chromatic keyboard layout?

There's something called a Gem oriental keyboard that I haven't got my head around yet!

http://www.maqam.com/gem-keyboards-wk2000.html#toptop
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Re: Oriental/Arabic keyboard

Postby Cazcarol » 12 Apr 2018, 17:06

Thanks PScooter63 for that information!
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Re: Oriental/Arabic keyboard

Postby Kayj_prod » 15 Apr 2018, 11:41

Nord doesn't offer alternative tunings.
I'm working in the UAE at the moment and borrowed a Yamaha home keyboard which offered alternative tunings for one particular job . (I think it was just a specific model variant for the arab market.) All it does is remap tunings for a given scale. Personally I found it a nightmare because I wasn't hearing what I expected to! I actually had to write out what I needed to play as if it were regular chromatic notes and just play what I was reading, ignoring what was entering my ear holes.
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