432 Hz tuning?

432 hurts :cry:

I managed to tune from 440 Hz to 432 Hz with samples. Here’s how I did it:
Go into the midi control editor of a track in Cubase and change the pitchbend to a value of -1350.
This can be done in the same area as where you edit different Control Codes like CC1 and CC11 etc.

I experimented by playing notes from different samples and setting a tuner (from Guitar Rig if it matters)
to 432 Hz reference. By experimenting I found that a pitchbend value of -1350 gets you a tuning of 432 Hz.

Didn’t care much for the sound though, think this works better with naturally tuned instruments rather than
tweaking something that has been recorded in 440 Hz into 432 Hz with a pitchbend. But it’s one way of doing it at least.

Cheers, Michael

Nicely played! :laughing:

You can hear much effects only on real instruments ( or within electronic instruments like AAS Chromaphone).
Deeper tuned real instruments sounds different, but electronic instruments otherwise as modeling based synthesis not.
if you want hear it live within art, then go to barock or renaissance concert :wink:

I personally prefer 444Hz to 432Hz. 440 is standard evil frequency (devils frequency). 432 is -32 cents and 444 +16 cents which you can do in most VSTi instruments or some also have the actual 440Hz setting to change it. With other non tuneable VSTi you would have to add some pitch plugin on the insert channel. Will try find out which one I used later when I have a play but probably some free ones. I think 432 could be another psyop but who knows, it just sounds dull to me but we are all used to 440Hz. I think I did my last song in 444Hz and people seem to love it although basic it is also my most proudest so far

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Did the Beatles tune in 440, 435 or 442? :face_with_peeking_eye: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Chords on 432, 440HZ:

Most of us have relative pitch. Which means our first pitch heard is our reference for the rest of the intervals. If you change that pitch it will hurt, but after some time we’ll still be able to adjust it in our brain. I doesn’t matter if I go from 432 to 440, 444 or vice versa. It’s not pleasant to switch. But our brain will adjust eventually.

For people with perfect pitch it’s a totally different story! Their perfect pitch is based on 440HZ! So they will not be able to adjust their perfect hearing to other frequencies. That will hurt even more!

You all had the balls to enter this discussion so I assume you all know what your talking about and know how to tune an mp3, Flac or wave file? Humor me and create a folder with 15 songs all with different tuning from 432, 440 and 444 HZ. And make sure they switch to another frequency every time a song switches. Then play them back and see how that feels to your brain?

Imagine our Spotify lists sounding like this?

There is a reason why at some point in history we decided the central A would be at 440HZ!

There is absolutely no musical or commercial value in making music in 432 and 444 as apposed to the standard 440 HZ.

You’ll know once you’ve performed the test I asked you to do?

If you want to experiment with alternative tuning then explore Just intonation, Pythagorean tuning, mean-tone temperament or equal temperament.

Just tuning a whole song up or down is stupid and wont work and will just cause incompatibility to our brains!

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