Hey all,
I'm new to the list, but I wanted to see if I could help generate interest
and/or get guidance helping to code-in what would be a very useful feature
into Jazz++ : microtonal scales.
As a microtonal composer, I have been frustrated for years by the lack of
readily available tools, the biggest and the best always assuming a
12-equal/octave bias. I have my own text-based tools, but I think it would be
lovely to have a piano roll GUI to compose micro-music with on Linux, and
yes, port it to Windoze as well. I think that with a bit of effort, we could
make Jazz++ microtonal ready.
One way would be to have 12-equal a default, and enable importing the nearly
universally accepted scala file format (.scl), and have the interface change
the number of notes/oct(pseudo-octave?) in response. Then, each 'note'
representation would be a combination of note-on plus pitch-bend bytes (this
is the most common way to do microtonal MIDI).
It would be most excellent to do work in Jazz++ using historical non-equal
temperament scales, various n-equal temperaments, various Just Intonation
systems, and the rest, would it not?
How much of the architecture would have to change? I would love to help
development, but I would need guidance to get up to speed on the current
architecture, etc. Plus, I might need some help with some minutia of C++: I
know C fairly well, Python very well.
Another question: could we implement a raw serial midi driver from within
Jazz++: something primitive and scheduler-based that could send raw MIDI
bytes to a serial port? Has this already been done?
Best,
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Aaron Krister Johnson
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