[LAU] tuning midi to alternative temperaments

[Raine M. Ekman]

Quoting david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com>:
> I think Aeolus does alternative tunings by essentially recalibrating its
> scale internally. It doesn't change the MIDI notes, though. So would a
> synth using soundfonts be able to do the same thing? I presume a
> soundfont contains at least one sample for each pitch, probably recorded
> at a standard pitch (modern temperament) rather than some other tuning,
> so how could such a synth change its scale?

That shouldn't really be any different from pitch bending, or playing  
a soundfont where a sample covers more than one MIDI note. All of  
these involve playing samples at some "wrong" pitch, and would happen  
through some kind of resampling.