Can SONAR modify note frequencies "note by note"?

Hi,
 
I am a musician teacher and I need to show my students the slight differences between "cromatic temperated 12TET" and "pitagorian temperated" scales.

Then, I need a sequencer where each of the 88 piano notes can be one by one modified in note frequency.

Can SONAR do this?

Thanks for a kind feedback.



Regards,
 
Renato
 
 

Yes.   It is a two-step thing, first whatever you are using for the piano sound must respond to pitchwheel events in a known way (two semi-tone total bend, for instance, for the entire pitchwheel bend of 16384 ticks, or perhaps two semi-tones up and two down) .    Then for each note in your demonstation, add a pitch wheel command calculated to change the tuning by however many cents you need.     As an example, for a Pythagorean major third, compared to an Equal Tempered major third, compared to a Just Intonation (Harmonic) major third:   the first would bend the third up 8 cents, which would be about 306 ticks for the 2up/2down pitchwheel bend setting; the second, of course, no bend, and the third would bend the third down about 14 cents, or about 540 ticks for the same setting.    The Pythagorean and harmonic tunings are generally a "comma" apart, a little more than 22 cents.

I'll just point out that a Temperament, fixed tuning according to a certain scale, is NOT just intonation, which changes depending on harmonic context.   So all the many many pre-tuned scales are pretty useless unless your music sticks to tonic and dominant in one key.