SPLICE Festival VI 2025 Workshop 1

Friday January 24, 2025
4:00pm EDT

Dmitri Volkov

Getting Started with Pivotuner

Pivotuner is a plugin which tunes MIDI data in pure intonation in real time. Besides enabling beautiful purely-tuned chords on keyboards, this also enables many other cool things such as microtonal modulation, and unusual chord sonorities! This workshop goes over the fundamentals of how to use Pivotuner, and some of the more advanced features, and practical techniques for achieving different musical results! Topics include: setting up Pivotuner with MPE or MTS-ESP protocols, general Pivotuner concepts, Pivotuner tuning modes, key determiners, pitch/key locking, bendback.

Bio

Dmitri Volkov primarily operates within the realms of music and computer science. Musically, Dmitri is an award-winning composer and producer who seeks to use bleeding-edge experimental techniques in convincing ways; he is also an accomplished multi-instrumentalist. With computer science, Dmitri is comfortable with both the theoretical and the practical, having published academic papers as well as mobile apps and websites. He actively seeks out ways to combine the two disciplines, by publishing work on quantum computer music and developing audio plugins such as Pivotuner (which enables adaptive pure intonation and microtonal modulation for virtual instruments). Dmitri also wants you to know that he does not usually write in the third person.