13 Oct
2013
13 Oct
'13
10:22 a.m.
I spent some time learning about MTS. Probably, i heared about it but forgot.
If i understood it right, it is also great thing to make music natural, tuning
single notes in real time.
It would be useful to look to that script at least to see MTS implementation.
And even more, by inverting of code we may get nice exporter for scala files.
As for 12-tones restriction, hope it is not for long time).
After that some dedicated scale editor would be nice, because editing of such
events in hex mode is not for real music creation.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Zlobin Nikita
<cook60020tmp(a)mail.ru> wrote:
2 - only about gui at all, not only qsynth: i
read one time somewhere,
that
fluidsynth supports microtonality (scale tuning), but only few months ago
could try it in action, controlling manually standalone fluidsynth,
started in terminal. It would be great to add in qsynth panel like in
zyn/yoshimi for scale tuning. Also interested, is there some gui, where
scale tuning is implemented (hard even to hope when even most featureful
gui doesn't have it).
Not exactly what you want, but I have a Pure script
which converts
octave-based tunings in Scala (.scl) format to corresponding MTS (MIDI
Tuning Standard) sysex files. These work with fluidsynth, and you can
use Qtractor's bus dialog to include them in your MIDI sequences.
The author of the Scala program (not the programming language Scala;
see http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/) has compiled a very
comprehensive collection consisting of thousands of scales from all
over the world, and of course it's also easy to create your own, it's
a text-based input format. The only limitation of my script (not
Scala) is that it currently works for octave-based 12 tone scales
only, so the Scala input needs to be of that form.
Just drop me a mail off-list if you want to have this. If there's
enough interest, I can also make it available on bitbucket or github.
Albert