21 Feb
2013
21 Feb
'13
3:45 p.m.
On Thu, February 21, 2013 3:02 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com
There is also linuxsampler as an option for the sample engine. But it is
viable to offer support for all three as they each have different
strengths/weaknesses.
IIUC the issue is that you were not able to find an ootb solution for this
problem.
I would be happy to add some support to CMKeyboard for this purpose if we
can define what it is that needs to be done either per scale or a generic
method for handling the different scales and the best way to enable the
controls in the UI.
Of course if someone has already done it and we just don't know about it
then we should look at that option first before starting on a new project.
wrote:
On Thu, February 21, 2013 2:10 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
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...
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.
[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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