2 May
2005
2 May
'05
7:37 p.m.
enough to design an efficient, user-friendly and solid
GUI for composing
music without a scale (yes, you read it right) so I'm not going to put
the option of a "Scale" might be convenient for those who arent wishing to
compose drum hits or the like
Here comes the biggest problem. I cannot use MIDI as
a protocol between
my sequencer and the syntesizers, because most (if not all) of the notes
produced by my software will not lie in the equal tempered scale (the 12
notes per octave everyone knows) nor in any other scale for that matter.
Please correct me if I'm wrong: MIDI doesn't allow for microtonal notes.
The best next things MIDI has to offer are Custom Scales and Pitch Bend.
AFAIK this has been overcome by using 14 bits to describe the note, a similar hack has
been done for controller data. in fact, it is possible to use any multiple of 7 bits in
MIDI as well (correct me if im wrong). many VST hosts and instruments on windows for
example accept floating point note like 67.1234 and its rendered accordingly. there are
even MIDI plugins to microtune notes in this manner to different scales.
Is there a common protocol with the same scope as MIDI
(transferring
notes from a sequencer to a synthesizer) but which allows for microtonal
notes? I fear not.
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