On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:01 PM, James Morris <jwm.art.net@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

I'm just wondering how you would rate the importance of program which
dynamically assigns pitch and velocity to incoming events to be able
to work with multiple key/scale simultaneously?

It's a bit of an experiment but I'm thinking it might be useful in
live situations for the electronic/dance/glitch/etc orientated
musician, but it might also happen to work out as a fun/toy program
for people play|learn-ing about music and scales (possibly).

Would anyone consider output of notes in multiple scales important in
either of these situations?

Thanks,
James.

I am interested in modes (western) ie ragas (Indian) and in alternate tunings.
Im not sure what you mean by scale in this context.

I recently had a discussion with the musescore folks about scale ie key signatures:
Evidently in musescore one can enter non-standard (by western standards) key signatures like only an A-flat (rather than the usual B-flat) or even an F-# and a B-flat etc.
But it does not 'understand'  these key signatures when playback-ing.
ie with standard western signatures it plays the correct notes but with these 'home-made' signatures it just plays everything natural.

Dunno if all this has anything to do with anything you are asking.