[linux-audio-dev] Re: Request/Offer: Debian package for Scala

[Dave Phillips]

Jens M Andreasen wrote:

>On mån, 2004-12-20 at 19:59 +0200, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
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>>>From: Jens M Andreasen:
>>>http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m11633/latest/
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>>So why don't we all together write software similar to Scala?
>>What Scala does? How and for what musicians use it?
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"This is the readme file belonging to Scala version 2.2.

Scala is an editor, librarian, and analysis tool for musical tunings,
like just intonation scales, equal or historical temperaments,
non-western scales and microtonal or macrotonal scales. It allows
scales to be created, manipulated and combined in many different ways.
It can tune various different synthesizers and samplers via standard
MIDI-files. It can also modify the tuning of music in MIDI-files.
Users can execute their own written programs using the Scala command
language. There are more than 500 different command combinations.
More than 350 note name systems are built in.
The Scala scale file format has become a standard for microtuning
software because of the enormous scale library and power of Scala. The
scale archive with over 3000 scales is available in a separate
zip-file.

...

Freeware. Uploaded by the author.

Version 2.0 was the first version with a graphical user interface. It
is made with the Gtk+ toolkit which is a multi-platform user interface
toolkit...
Not all functionality has been put in menu commands. Some of the lesser
used functions will remain text commands only."


FWIW, I have Scala's source code, provided upon request by Manuel Op de 
Coul, Scala's author. I've been unable to build it, I think there's some 
old GTK stuff in the code that's not working nicely with GTK 1.2.10 (my 
default GTK), and I'm no GTK coder. Perhaps someone here with coding 
skills and a lot of extra time could do it ?

Best,

dp