[LAD] Some proposals for fluidsynth and qsynth

[Zlobin Nikita]

I spent some time learning about MTS. Probably, i heared about it but forgot. 
If i understood it right, it is also great thing to make music natural, tuning 
single notes in real time.

It would be useful to look to that script at least to see MTS implementation. 
And even more, by inverting of code we may get nice exporter for scala files. 
As for 12-tones restriction, hope it is not for long time).

After that some dedicated scale editor would be nice, because editing of such 
events in hex mode is not for real music creation.

> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Zlobin Nikita <cook60020tmp at mail.ru> wrote:
> > 2 - only about gui at all, not only qsynth: i read one time somewhere,
> > that
> > fluidsynth supports microtonality (scale tuning), but only few months ago
> > could try it in action, controlling manually standalone fluidsynth,
> > started in terminal. It would be great to add in qsynth panel like in
> > zyn/yoshimi for scale tuning. Also interested, is there some gui, where
> > scale tuning is implemented (hard even to hope when even most featureful
> > gui doesn't have it).
> Not exactly what you want, but I have a Pure script which converts
> octave-based tunings in Scala (.scl) format to corresponding MTS (MIDI
> Tuning Standard) sysex files. These work with fluidsynth, and you can
> use Qtractor's bus dialog to include them in your MIDI sequences.
> 
> The author of the Scala program (not the programming language Scala;
> see http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/) has compiled a very
> comprehensive collection consisting of thousands of scales from all
> over the world, and of course it's also easy to create your own, it's
> a text-based input format. The only limitation of my script (not
> Scala) is that it currently works for octave-based 12 tone scales
> only, so the Scala input needs to be of that form.
> 
> Just drop me a mail off-list if you want to have this. If there's
> enough interest, I can also make it available on bitbucket or github.
> 
> Albert