On 27 January 2012 17:48, Rustom Mody <rustompmody(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:01 PM, James Morris <jwm.art.net(a)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.
Unfortunately I'm not very musically literate...oops... but an example
would be C-Major, with C as the key, and major as the scale (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major ).
So is there a use case for say one part (ie woodwind) in a composition
outputting notes of one key/scale while another part (ie strings)
simultaneously outputs notes of some other key/scale?
I'm wondering how people would rate the importance of being able to do that.
James.