Re: [Rosegarden-devel] scales keys tunings

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Friday 06 Jun 2003 5:39 pm, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > I took a look at Scala, which is a tool for calculating and
> > setting tunings.  The problem with it (from our perspective) is
> > that it's _too_ simple and flexible: it represents a scale as
> > simply a set of tunings per octave, without any information about
> > which notes are which (for example, as far as it's concerned the
> > default MIDI tuning consists of 12 equal semitones and nothing
> > more, whereas to represent and edit that we still need to know
> > that certain notes are "in scale" and others have accidentals,
> > etc).
>
> I guess Scala acts this way because a set of 12 tuning values is
> what most MIDI synthesizers actually support when it comes to
> customizing tuning.

That's not quite what I meant, I think.  Scala allows you to define=20
any number of pitches per octave and it doesn't care about MIDI=20
(except in MIDI-specific parts of the program).  It's just that it=20
doesn't distinguish between the pitches in any useful way -- there is=20
no information about them besides their raw pitch data.  It doesn't=20
know a C is a C.

I think.


Chris