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Dear Khyam, I've been making microtonal music in Ableton Live for a few years now.

You are asking for a MIDI plugin that can retune any VST to a microtonal scale (presumably through pitch bends). I'm afraid you will run into some issues this way. The problem is that pitch bend is per-channel ...

Not sure but, isn't it possible to create a new MIDI track, and set the input to be your MIDI track with the Drum Rack on it. Select Post FX. Is this an easier workaround? Just a thought.

It has to be said yet again. Please implement SysEx messages within Ableton. I don't see why they should get filtered out. They're not only super useful for those with external gear, but also useful for those of us who want to send MIDI Tuning dumps via SysEx to our softsynths (thinking Xen-Arts ...

Logic X's microtuning is crippled. It only support 12-note scales, which must repeat at the octave, and each note can only deviate from its 12-tet counterpart by a semitone. It's a good starter pack, but it leaves out many great scales, such as the Bohlen-Pierce scale or Wendy Carlos' scales as an ...

Should be do-able with Max 4 Live, and the (key) object. Then you feed that into a (coll) object so that you can assign a MIDI note number to each key on your keyboard. That's the gist of it at least, but I'm sure there are downsides to doing it like this!

Logic X's microtuning is crippled. It only support 12-note scales, which must repeat at the octave, and each note can only deviate from its 12-tet counterpart by a semitone. It's a good starter pack, but it leaves out many great scales, such as the Bohlen-Pierce scale or Wendy Carlos' scales as an ...

+1 again

Still no microtonality support in Live. This is exactly why I just purchase regular live and not Suite - but TAL-Sampler is an excellent sampler with microtuning so that's why they get my money. Xen-Arts make some killer microtonal plugs for free and I use them all the time. Xen-Arts FMTS2 ...

I started this handy list of VST/AU plugins which support microtonal scales:
http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/List+of+Microtonal+Software+Plugins

But Ableton, really, please consider allowing full-keyboard microtuning to Live's built-in instruments. You should be on the cutting edge, inspiring a ...

I am using Ableton Live to make microtonal music. Because Live lacks support for microtonality in its built-in instruments, I use VSTs instead to get at those novel scales.

No problem, except for one thing. Microtonal scales can have more or less than 12 notes per octave. So let's just assume for ...