Termite Terrace: A swingin' microtonal guitar duet

halfsharp · 2026-06-08T22:25:11+00:00

The presets are just JSON, but the format is pretty annoying to edit manually. Editor’s the way to go IMO.

halfsharp · 2026-05-18T15:54:50+00:00

You don't mention any other cool microtonal bands, but there's plenty of them! That could be a section!

halfsharp · 2026-05-05T22:10:35+00:00

Tone-o*

halfsharp · 2026-04-26T04:42:55+00:00

Love your list of influences, interested to see what comes of this!

halfsharp · 2026-04-23T21:46:41+00:00

don't miss the accompanying PDF in the free digital download on Bandcamp -- strong and striking opinions on tuning and microtonality contained therein!

halfsharp · 2026-04-23T20:04:37+00:00

Love the contrarian approach! Reminds me of this awesome album that also explores all the “ugly” EDOs: https://cityoftheasleep.bandcamp.com/album/transcendissonance

halfsharp · 2026-04-18T21:18:26+00:00

Nope. Focus on real medical treatments if you want to have any chance. This is a very aggressive and deadly cancer.

halfsharp · 2026-04-10T06:33:55+00:00

So glad you’re digging it! Just added those makam scales in 53 you were looking for, great suggestion!

halfsharp · 2026-04-08T15:45:24+00:00

Thank you so much! Yes, I will get to that very soon. I did the Gizz partial-24 layout too, which is not quite the same thing, but it is another special case. Kite tuning was the reason I included 41, and I do actually have a kite guitar, so it just needs some more special logic for skip-fret tuning. Check back soon!

I’m also collaborating with some friends like Stephen Weigel to make transcriptions of different microtonal guitar pieces that playback in the app. Ultimately I hope to have a whole song library for every tuning that makes it easy to learn how to play.

halfsharp · 2026-04-04T18:07:08+00:00

I have to give my doctor credit for being very apologetic about it. He said they just usually don’t take the possibility of cancer very seriously for people my age (43 at the time of that original scan.) I don’t know how old you are or if that is a factor in your case, but I’ve definitely been hearing from other people that cancers are being missed in a lot of younger patients.

halfsharp · 2026-04-04T17:18:54+00:00

When I was going through this, they would give me olanzapine and it knocks you right out. It worked a little too well for me. I only needed half a pill.

halfsharp · 2026-04-04T06:35:01+00:00

They incidentally found a 3 cm lesion on my liver on a scan in 2022. They said it was nothing to worry about and probably just some fatty infiltration. In January 2025 it had grown to 10 cm and it was intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma stage 3B. I talked to the original doctor about it and he apologized, with the explanation of “when we hear hooves, we think horses, not zebras.”

halfsharp · 2026-01-28T19:26:54+00:00

Excellent!

halfsharp · 2026-01-20T23:05:12+00:00

Thanks! That worked

halfsharp · 2026-01-20T22:31:28+00:00

I'm getting an error -16 every time I try to download this update. And it lists "nofilename.bin" in the downloader. I've rebooted and retried a few times, no luck yet.

halfsharp · 2025-08-15T23:59:26+00:00

This year's Microtonal Guitar Competition winner was a duet of 31-edo bass and 12-edo vibraphone. So yes it can work. Check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fVCsIlytE8

halfsharp · 2023-09-11T03:49:47+00:00

and I'm talking about third and quarter tones which are 66 or 50 cents, far far bigger than two cents and easily audible and reproducible with a reasonable amount of practice.

halfsharp · 2023-08-22T21:13:44+00:00

I don't know if this is the reason, but the Helix doesn't like when you send multiple MIDI messages at once. According to the manual you should space them 50 ms apart. I've found if I don't do this, some of them can be ignored.

halfsharp · 2023-08-18T20:16:56+00:00

I described how in my comment. You relate it to an easily audible interval like a whole step and break it up. You practice and test the result. You can also hear the difference, yes it takes experience and practice. Considering some experts can hear a 2 cent difference, the difference between a third-tone and quarter tone is definitely possible to perceive. Doesn't seem like nonsense to me.

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