14 May
2005
14 May
'05
8:57 p.m.
Considering that I am late to this conversation and have failed to
completely read-up on the entire thread, I may end-up sounding completely
redundant. That being said :-), if you are interested in alternate tuning
using kludge MIDI standard, you can do 2 of the following:
1) Get a synth that supports custom tuning and simply remaps default MIDI
note-on/off messages to different pitches (this is less than optimal as it
is far from an universal solution).
2) Get into some of the solutions written that provide you with MIDI score
where one note is played per channel with some amount of pitch-bend applied
to it. I would suggest looking into Christopher Bailey's LISP web-based
script that generates such MIDI scorefiles. For more info please see:
http://music.columbia.edu/~chris/micromidi/main.html
Hope this helps!
Best wishes,
Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/
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bounces(a)music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of James McDermott
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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Guidelines for developing a music editor
(I'll answer this as best I can, feel free to correct me where I'm wrong.)
In the other thread you kindly provided me with
some advice and links,
including mentioning the MIDI Tuning Standard and OSC.
This seems like a very hard problem. Since your sequencer is "just
that: a sequencer", you'll also need plugin hosts and/or standalone
synths too, which understand either MIDI tuning or OSC. (One
OSC-driven plugin host, Om, has been mentioned already). The majority
of standalone synths and plugins will probably never be able to play
anything other than a conventional tuning, so that's a problem, unless
you're happy to write a few of your own.
(By the way, re VST, some existing synths and/or plugin hosts can host
VST, but again most VSTs expect MIDI or MIDI-style commands and
implicitly assume a conventional tuning.)
I'd love to see a general-purpose OSC sequencer, and I'm sure others
would too, so keep me informed if you're thinking of taking this
approach, and maybe I can help out in some way.