On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@boosthardware.com> wrote:

On Thu, February 21, 2013 2:10 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:

> Personally I can say that after I got my keyboards with a handful of
> tunings a new world has opened to me. If only I could have done some of
> that with timidity/fluidsynth...
>

Do you mean you would like to have a keyboard app that has preset
sample/tuning for various different scales?

It's certainly possible to create your own now but I haven;t come across
an app that takes on that functionality yet.

It might be a nice addition to CMKeyboard if someone else hasn't already
started/finished.

One of my major uses is to teach a class singing with a score software like nted or musescore. [Or else I am at the piano]

My attempts are more than a few years old so my memory is foggy...
timidity has some tuning support poorly documented.
It has some 3 ways of re-tuning -- pitch-bend, and 2 'batch-modes's -- the details I forget
The pitch bend sounded horrible and different on linux and windows.
The two 'batch-modes' -- the sysex option (if thats what its called) I could not figure out at all. The 'load-a-scala-file' seemed to work somewhat but I could not figure out some parameters.

Fluidsynth I could not make any sense of.
My problem is that I was brought up on an (old) steinway. So when a software is built analogically to some hardware that is assumed to be familiar to all, I dont know where to start...

[I am off tomorrow to a camp where I am musician/music teacher. So I may reply after 10 days. Hope thats ok]

Rusi

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