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Comment by justtocomment

I'm not aware of any HW sequencers supporting microtonal scales. If you're talking about MIDI sequencing I don't think that's baked into the standard: As far as I know, MIDI doesn't have a concept of scales or tuning. Notes are sent as values ranging from 0 to 127 and it's up to the receiver to interpret that - usually by assigning equal temprament notes to these numbers (this is, I assume, how the Korg *logue synthesizers implement their scales - by interpreting the note values differently)

Things may improve if MIDI 2 ever becomes widespread. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

When sequencing monophonic sequences, one might be able to work around this by adding a MIDI processor into the signal path that prepends certain pitch bend messages to certain note values - but I can't say for certain how well this work, I never tried it.

Here's a link with some ideas (and scripts) to implement microtonal synth voices with today's firmware version of the deluge:

https://forums.synthstrom.com/discussion/comment/16257/#Comm...

Hope that helps!

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