Many world instruments have truly unique tonality or tuning - much different than the Western 12-tone chromatic scale. Therefore, many of the Ethno Instrument's presets are provided in two forms: the original ("-o") tuning, which preserves each note of the instrument exactly as it would be played by the musician, and conventional western chromatic tuning, which saves you the pain-staking effort of having to remap or tune each note.

Play the two Sanza preset samples below to hear an example of original ("-o") tuning and conventional tuning. These examples have been made using DP5's MIDI Keys window to play the notes of a C major scale (white keys), so that you can see how the sanza notes are mapped to the keyboard for each tuning:

Original "-o" tuning

Western tuning

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