Raine M. Ekman wrote: > Quoting david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> I think Aeolus does alternative tunings by essentially recalibrating its >> scale internally. It doesn't change the MIDI notes, though. So would a >> synth using soundfonts be able to do the same thing? I presume a >> soundfont contains at least one sample for each pitch, probably recorded >> at a standard pitch (modern temperament) rather than some other tuning, >> so how could such a synth change its scale? > > That shouldn't really be any different from pitch bending, or playing > a soundfont where a sample covers more than one MIDI note. All of > these involve playing samples at some "wrong" pitch, and would happen > through some kind of resampling. That's right. And someone earlier in this thread mentioned the idea of sending a Pitch Bend event before each of the alternate-temperament notes ... And MIDI just has note numbers, I don't think it has any inherent idea that any given note number is an octave higher or lower than another. So a 4-note scale and a 24-note scale would be the same to MIDI. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
