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Send MTS tuning tables to tune currently selected Midi Out device(s)
Tune this out device with MTS sysexes - or assume tuned with .TUN tables...

You can set the way this works from the .Tun and MTS sysex options.

.TUN tables

You can load a .TUN tuning table in FTS to tell it how your synth is tuned so that it doesn't need to send the notes on separate channels. You can then select which of the out devices are already tuned in this way. This switches off the pitch bend channel remapping for those devices, and the tuning table you loaded is used to choose which midi notes to send to the device to achieve the desired pitch. Notes not in the tuning table are ignored. You can see what is happening from Out | Notes Currently Playing (Ctrl + 47) | More

Midi Tuning Standard Sysexes

This is an ideal way to tune a device in midi because a program like Tune Smithy can tune it directly and you don't need to keep loading the tuning yourself in the other program or changing its selection if you change the tuning.

Unfortunately only few devices so far implement the standard way to do this - but they include some of the synths from Native Instruments such as the FM7.

Many hardware synths have tuning tables but unfortunately they are specific to the model of synth and it is a lot of programming effort to implement all the variations. Manuel Op de Coul has done that however in Scala so you can use SCALA to tune most hardware synths.

Intro
Here you can load .tun tuning tables or configure the MTS sysexes

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Out Opts....
Options for Midi Out...

Parts for Devices...
Set which parts from the Parts window to play on which out devices

Emulate .TUN tuned synth
Reads scale tuning data, or constructs a suitable scale && arpeggio from table

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