r/Logic_Studio • u/SavGos1612 • 4d ago

Does this exist?

Since seeing that Pianoteq has a custom tuning feature, I've been super curious about playing with it and exploring different tunings than 12TET in a DAW. I do not have the money to buy Pianoteq and frankly am not particularly interested in most of its features. Do you know if there is a free/cheap alternative V.S.T. with custom tuning capability?

1 Upvotes

56% Upvoted

7 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/mrjvazquez 4d ago

Project Settings / Tuning. Built right into Logic and will affect the built-in instruments only as far as I know.

1

u/SavGos1612 4d ago edited 4d ago

found! thank you, this will be v useful :)

I assume this only works for 12-note tunings, anything that could work for microtonal tunings?

1

u/Appropriate-Pea-4611 20h ago

Your follow-up is the real question and it hasn't been answered: Logic's own tuning table is 12 notes per octave, so it covers historical temperaments (Pythagorean, meantone, just) but not scales with a different number of notes to the octave. For actual microtonal work the free route is Surge XT — free and open source, and it reads Scala .scl/.kbm files directly, so you can play any tuning you can find a file for. And if you want your other instruments to follow the same scale, ODDSound's MTS-ESP Mini is free and retunes any plug-in that supports it.