[linux-audio-user] Notation to freqs/Rosegarden

[Manuel Op de Coul]

>There are a lot of requirements associated
>with entering and playing (correctly) non-traditional-Western
>notations, and while these are all desirable post-1.0 features,
>they mostly will not be in 1.0.

Right, that's why it will be hard to add microtonal support
as an afterthought instead of designing it in from the beginning.

Anyway if the number of pitch classes you need doesn't exceed 128,
it's possible to edit the score with Rosegarden or another sequencer
and translate the MIDI file to a microtuned one with Scala. You
need to remember which note number maps to which pitch because the 
score won't look the way it sounds.

>To play them with a normal MIDI instrument requires a pitch-bend
>controller event.

Or a MIDI Tuning event. In Scala you have the choice between pitch
bends and MIDI Tuning Standard messages when translating a MIDI file.
Then you can render it with Timidity for example. Unfortunately 
Timidity doesn't support the MTS, but for example Audio Compositor
on the Windows platform does (free demo).

Fetch Scala at http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala

It can also do realtime MIDI relaying with pitch bend tuning.

Manuel