[LAU] MIDI with scales *and* soundfonts

Justin Smith noisesmith at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 04:58:21 EST 2009


On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Laura Conrad <sunny at laymusic.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <pedro.lopez.cabanillas at gmail.com> writes:
>
>    Pedro> The format for the table of frequencies is a simple text file
>    Pedro> with 128 integers representing the frequency in Hz of each
>    Pedro> MIDI note number.
>
> Thanks, that's the kind of answer I was hoping for.  I did find
> references to people using timidity for things like this, but not
> anything explaning what the table looked like.
>
> The scala scale files seem to mostly have only one octave, but I can
> multiply or divide by 2 enough times to get 128 notes.
>
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A quick pedantic note: not all scales that come with scala repeat
evenly on the octave, so dividing by or multiplying by two may not be
appropriate for some of the more specialized scales.



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