[LAU] MIDI with scales *and* soundfonts

[Justin Smith]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Laura Conrad <sunny at laymusic.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Justin" == Justin Smith <noisesmith at gmail.com> writes:
>
>    >> 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.
>
>    Justin> A quick pedantic note: not all scales that come with scala
>    Justin> repeat evenly on the octave, so dividing by or multiplying
>    Justin> by two may not be appropriate for some of the more
>    Justin> specialized scales.
>
> Actually I've played around with it a bit and Scala seems to export the
> file timidity wants directly.  It also exports something it calls a
> shell script that allegedly works with fluidsynth, but I haven't figured
> out how to make fluidsynth read that yet.  I also don't have Timidity
> reading both the font and the tuning table at the same time yet, but I'm
> still working on it.
>
>

A shell script should be an executable file, does it work to just mark
it as executable and run it?