Greetings:
Considering its suitability for microtonality, why not design
something around Csound ?
The best solution is to remove the mapping from note number to frequency,
and directly send the frequency to the synth. I use OSC messages to do
this (my sequencer uses the scala tuning format).
OSC should replace midi for internal communication - the first OSC
hardware has started to appear already, so maybe for external
communication too, one day :)
It would be interesting to compare the ways that OSC based synths are
accepting note information and try to arrive at some sort of standard.
cheers,
dave