[LAU] tuning midi to alternative temperaments

Raine M. Ekman raine at iki.fi
Tue Dec 22 03:24:03 EST 2009


Quoting Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com>:
> I have a piano (I am not sure what to call a touch sensitive 7-octave
> Casio) that has 7 tunings: Equal, Just, Werckmeister-III and so on.
> I try always to fit my music to the best possible temperament.
>
> I am also a linux user -- recently started using the excellent nted
> software to write up music.
>
> So the question: How does one specify alternative temperaments to timidity?

Have a look at Scala: http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/

Seems like it can output tuning files in a format that timidity can  
use (try timidity -Z tuningfile )






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