Hi folks

Back in the end of my masters, I did make something that allows you to load scales from the Scala software into Pd, which has a database of over 4000 scales.

Check the software and data bank here http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/

It's an extremely powerful tool for microtonality, but you may not care for that and just want to use the scale data bank in Pd.

Anyway, I have a way that exports the  from the Scala software into a text file that opens in this specific subpatch of mine.

But I was trying to do something easier, and that is just load these *.scl files into [textfile] or [msgfile] for example, and extracting the list of these scale intervals in cents.

Here's what one of these files look like


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! 08-11.scl
!
8 out of 11-tET
 8
!
 218.18182
 327.27273
 436.36364
 654.54545
 763.63636
 872.72727
 1090.90909
 2/1


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So I assumed it'd be easy to extract each cents value and make a list out of it, but I was wrong. Don't know why but it doesn't load this in separate lines, maybe because it is not a *.txt file at all.

And anyway, I'm getting in Pd just a list, so the above file, for example, file becomes


list ! 08-11.scl ! 8 out of 11-tET 8 ! 218.182 327.273 436.364 654.545 763.636 872.727 1090.91 2/1


I seem to have found a messy way to get the list out of it, but maybe you people know of something really simple and elegant with some extended objects.


Thanks
Alex