On 4/11/06, Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org wrote:
Hallo, Chuckk Hubbard hat gesagt: // Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
Interesting. I looked it over, I'm still not sure why note numbers are necessary. Although, if the base frequency and reference tone can be changed at will, as in Scala's .seq format, that could get pretty deep.
I used note numbers because basically [tunetof] is just dealing with scales, that have steps. Using note numbers makes it very easy to apply scale-oriented algorithms. And the analogy with mtof will make it easy for users without much experience in dealing with alternate tunings - like myself - to experiment using their mtof-knowledge and even the same patches.
Gotcha. I was still thinking in terms of decimal note numbers, like 60.5, which wouldn't make sense with this. Any compatibility between Scala and any other software is always good.
Lots of Western-centric musicians boast that the microtonality of more primitive traditions could only have worked in single-line melody, and that Western music, with its more sophisticated tonalities, made these tunings obsolete. I believe that, with computers, the harmonic possibilities opened up by other tunings could dwarf those of 12-tET. But obviously not with keyboards.
So in general it is a very different approach from your JI sequencer.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
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