2 Oct
2011
2 Oct
'11
11:23 p.m.
On 2 October 2011 14:18, <harryhaaren(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Everybody,
I've been thinking about the "best" way to represent tonality & pitch
in
software. AFAIK most software implements thier "internal workings" as MIDI
messages. This seems a clean easy solution, pass around 3 values and the
whole Engine is sorted. But what if one wants to expand on the possibilities
of MIDI, and not confine oneself to the 127 notes that are available, but
rather allow the use of *any* tuning, pitch or scale.
Although it doesn't use Scala or allow user defined tunings, I'm just
writing to mention that MX44.2 has a number of alternative tunings to
equal temperament. As I'm not a musician I'll have to let a snippet
of code defining tooltip strings to do all the talking:
static const char *temp_tips [] = {
" Even Tempered (Hammond Tonewheel) ",
" Well Tempered (Werckmeister IV) ",
" Mean Tone (Italian Renaisance Cembalo) ",
" Natural Open D (Modern Indian Shruti) "
};
static const char *shruti_tips [] = {
" pythagorean limma | minor diatonic semitone (ri)",
" minor- | major whole tone (RI)",
" pythagorean- | just minor third (ga)",
" just- | pythagorean major third (GA)",
" perfect- | acute fourth (MA)",
" just- | pythagorean tritonus (ma)",
" pythagorean- | just minor sixth (da)",
" just- | pythagorean major sixth (DA)",
" pythagorean- | just minor seventh (ni)",
" just- | pythagorean major seventh (NI)"
};
Cheers,
James.