24 Sep
2004
24 Sep
'04
12:54 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:30:46AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings:
As I'm sure many of you know, Scala support is already present in
ZynAddSubFX and I think at least one other Linux softsynth (ALAS Modular
maybe?). I'll cast my vote for its inclusion in anyone's synth or
sequencer, I've had great fun playing around with Scala scales in the
Zyn synth.
So yeh, Dave, where's that sequencer ?? ;-)
I know next to nothing about scala ... is it possible to use it to
define arbitrary scales? I have a project in mind for randomly generated
"scales" created by selecting at random 48 different degrees of time
compression or stretching (w/pitch shift -- what's the right way to call
this again?) and ordering them to be assigned to keys on a midi
keyboard. Is this something that can be done easily in a
scriptable-from-python way with any existing running on linux
softsamplersynth? I've heard it can be done with specimen, but I get the
impression it requires lots of gui clicking which is what I specifically
want to avoid.
-Eric Rz.