[LAU] ot-ish: musical scales question

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from James Morris's message of 2010-07-05 11:39:53 +0200:
> a program i'm making (yes that one) will benefit from knowing about
> musical scales. i looked in the source code for non-sequencer (i'll
> look at arpage next), and adapted an array there into the following
> form:
> 
>     { "Major",              { 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 }},
>     { "Natural Minor",      { 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0 }},
>     { "Harmonic Minor",     { 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1 }},
>     { "Melodic Minor",      { 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 }},
>     { "Major Pentatonic",   { 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0 }},
>     { "Minor Pentatonic",   { 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0 }},
>     { "Chromatic",          { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 }}
> 
> (1 means a note is part of that scale, 0 means it is not).

Just one word of warning:
In case you copy code from non-sequencer, make sure to test it. I played
with it today, played with scales, and after I reverted to the initial
"Major" it started to more or less randomly not play notes. Well, I
think there was a pattern to it, but anyway, it seems to be buggy
somewhere around that code.
-- 
Regards,
Philipp

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