On Thu, February 21, 2013 2:10 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Neil <djdualcore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ >> > >> > specifically: http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/scalesdir.txt >> > >> > You will find that there are over 4000 diferent scales there. >> >> Very cool! >> >> Another good book on the subject. Don't let the title put you off. >> The author isn't actually all that anti-ET. >> >> http://www.amazon.com/Equal-Temperament-Ruined-Harmony-Should/dp/0393334201 >> >> Neil > > > I find 4000 a big put-off. Are there that many scales in use worldwide?? > If > it were a few hundred one could at least make some headway. My guess is > that most of them are some kind of mathematical experiments. > > The problem as I see it is like this: > Mathematically: The number of scales is worse than uncountably infinite > (powerset of R). So for mathematical tractability one needs to work with > genera, eg > - Equal tempered scales (not necessarily only 12 notes) > - Well tempered scales (all/notes usable, all subtly different aka Bach's > WTC) > - Meantones > - Justs with various cut-off rules > > And then criteria for 'badness' http://x31eq.com/badness.pdf for comparing > these > > Musician-ly: This is a pain. I just want better sound than ET. And a few > rules of thumb to make sensible choices. > > Personally I can say that after I got my keyboards with a handful of > tunings a new world has opened to me. If only I could have done some of > that with timidity/fluidsynth... > Do you mean you would like to have a keyboard app that has preset sample/tuning for various different scales? It's certainly possible to create your own now but I haven;t come across an app that takes on that functionality yet. It might be a nice addition to CMKeyboard if someone else hasn't already started/finished. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
