Dream Theater Tuning

[Kurzweil88]

Hello everyone,

I plugged my mp3 player and my kurzweil into one pair of headphones and was trying to play along with Dream Theater (Scenes from a Memory) and I sound like I am way out of tune with what the're playing. Do they play a few cents higher or lower or is it somehting with my keyboard?

[Enigma™]

Could be the playback speed of your MP3 player? Unless your Kurzweil's master tuning is out which is also possible. (shrugs)
Might wanna take a look at that. *What song is it or is it all of them?*

[Kurzweil88]

My Kurzwei master tuning is set to 0. The play back speed of the mp3 player isn't adjustable. I was playing Spirit Carries On mainly but they all seem to be off a little bit. I'm getting that nasty wavy, out of tune sound.

[Scrap]

Could you perhaps be using a program that uses non-standard tuning, such as stretch?

[Farren]

Only song I can think of by them that's off less than a half-step is SDV.

[Kurzweil88]

Its my standard piano patch 001. Grand Piano. :( I couldn't be playing it that wrong could I? Spirit Carries On is in D with C# and F# right?

[Enigma™]

More than likely, you're playing it right. I know some piano samples are tuned the exact same way that a real piano is in that it's stretch tuning. What about another piano sound? Or try playing it with a string sound to see if it's right?

[synthz]

If it's standard tuning, shouldn't it be like A=440Khz or something? Check this one, it might accidentally switched.

[Rosie]

Look for a guitar tuning program online, and plug your keyboard into your compute,r then tune from there.