[LAD] Internally representing pitch : A new approach

Fons Adriaensen fons at linuxaudio.org
Sun Oct 2 13:54:04 UTC 2011


On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:18:38PM +0000, harryhaaren at gmail.com wrote:

> I've been thinking about the "best" way to represent tonality & pitch in  
> software. AFAIK most software implements thier "internal workings" as 
> MIDI messages. This seems a clean easy solution, pass around 3 values and 
> the whole Engine is sorted. But what if one wants to expand on the  
> possibilities of MIDI, and not confine oneself to the 127 notes that are  
> available, but rather allow the use of *any* tuning, pitch or scale.
>
> Scala seems pretty much designed to handle this kind of situation, and  
> while I can read the example .scl files, I can't find any example "host" 
> or simple example program to guide me along in how to use it...
> So that's the question here really, how does one go about it? -Harry

AlsaModularSynth (AMS) has scala support, see m_scmcv.cpp.

Ciao,

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FA




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