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Tuning Display: The Tuning Display is located to the right to the two tuning
controls. It displays the instrument’s current tuning in semitones and cents.
For example, a setting of “+4.79” means that the instrument is currently tuned
4 semitones and 79 cents sharp of its default setting.
Scale: The Scale control is used to set the Micto Tuning (TUN) file that
SaxLab 2 uses. The TUN file is a list of pitches that the instrument uses to
determine the pitch at which it plays back samples. Most Western music uses
a pitch system called Equal Temperament in which the smallest interval
between two adjacent notes is defined by the ratio 1:1.05946. For example,
A4 has a frequency of 440 Hz. In this case, A#4 (the next highest note
available on a keyboard) has a frequency of 440 x 1.05946 which equal 466.2
Hz.
SaxLab 2 comes with a wide selection of different TUN files. For more about
TUN files please see Appendix A: Using TUN Files.
LinPlug SaxLab User Guide 2.0.3
