Scala archives...

Exactly, how does one go about uploading new scales into the Scala
archives? I have an offering or two but am not aware of the procedure...

Best,

jls

You need to contact Manuel Op de Coul directly to submit your ideas.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "J.Smith" <jsmith9624@...> wrote:
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> Exactly, how does one go about uploading new scales into the Scala
> archives? I have an offering or two but am not aware of the
procedure...
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> jls
>

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "J.Smith" <jsmith9624@...> wrote:
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> Exactly, how does one go about uploading new scales into the Scala
> archives? I have an offering or two but am not aware of the procedure...

You post it on the tuning group and see if Manuel finds it interesting.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Perry" <jinto83@...> wrote:
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> You need to contact Manuel Op de Coul directly to submit your ideas.

If it's good enough to contact Manuel about, it's good enough to post
and have it discussed first.

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0etjzAx36khL_QJs> , "J.Smith" <jsmith9624@...> wrote:
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> Exactly, how does one go about uploading new scales into the Scala
> archives? I have an offering or two but am not aware of the
procedure...

"You post it on the tuning group and see if Manuel finds it
interesting."

In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com
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eKF6MWaHRT9h8_gT1> , "Robin Perry" <jinto83@...> wrote:
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> You need to contact Manuel Op de Coul directly to submit your ideas.

"If it's good enough to contact Manuel about, it's good enough to post
and have it discussed first."

Wow..."peer-reviewed" alternate tunings! Who would've thought? I mean--
having Manuel take a look before uploading to Scala is certainly
reasonable enough, after all. But "discussed" at the TUNINGS LIST??
Golly, Gene...I don't think I could take that kind of pressure. What if
my miserable excuse for a scale gets turned down? What if the other
composers laugh at it? Think of the trauma, for God's sake...

Besides, I'm not a member of the Alternate Tunings List -- no math
skills. And after due consideration, there's really no need to add
another scale to the 2000+ already available, either -- is there?

As a famous journalist once said: "Never mind!"

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>Wow..."peer-reviewed" alternate tunings! Who would've thought? I mean--
>having Manuel take a look before uploading to Scala is certainly
>reasonable enough, after all. But "discussed" at the TUNINGS LIST??
>Golly, Gene...I don't think I could take that kind of pressure. What if
>my miserable excuse for a scale gets turned down? What if the other
>composers laugh at it? Think of the trauma, for God's sake...
>
>Besides, I'm not a member of the Alternate Tunings List -- no math
>skills. And after due consideration, there's really no need to add
>another scale to the 2000+ already available, either -- is there?
>
>As a famous journalist once said: "Never mind!"

1. Send it to Manuel.

2. I don't think the quality of scales in the archive is very high,
so I doubt your scale could damage it.

3. I respect your music, so your scales are almost certainly (and
if not, by definition) of good quality.

4. It would be good to have a more open scale repository, to which
anyone can contribute. And where users can vote on the interestingness
of the scales. Hell, maybe even post mp3 files to compete for
'best piece in this scale' status.

-Carl

Certainly haven't checked out all of them, but almost every .scl I've
inspected is a tuning, not a scale.

A library system is needed, maybe Tunings and Scales as the first
folders the EDO non-EDO folders inside? A seperate folder for
Historical.

Maybe some kind of refinement of the "compare scale" function, too-
it's kind of annoying that every single scale shows up as a subset of
my EDH (equal division of Hertz) scale (with a generator
of .00000000000000000000000000000000001 Hz).

-Cameron Bobro

>Certainly haven't checked out all of them, but almost every .scl I've
>inspected is a tuning, not a scale.
>
>A library system is needed, maybe Tunings and Scales as the first
>folders the EDO non-EDO folders inside? A seperate folder for
>Historical.

EDO/non-EDO isn't a primary distinction I'd use. But what's needed
is more than a folder structure -- it's a rich way to mark scales up
with metadata.

-Carl

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "J.Smith" <jsmith9624@...> wrote:

> Wow..."peer-reviewed" alternate tunings! Who would've thought? I mean--
> having Manuel take a look before uploading to Scala is certainly
> reasonable enough, after all. But "discussed" at the TUNINGS LIST??
> Golly, Gene...I don't think I could take that kind of pressure. What if
> my miserable excuse for a scale gets turned down? What if the other
> composers laugh at it? Think of the trauma, for God's sake...

It allows the scale to be compared to other scales (it might already
be known, after all) and its properties discussed.

> Besides, I'm not a member of the Alternate Tunings List -- no math
> skills. And after due consideration, there's really no need to add
> another scale to the 2000+ already available, either -- is there?

I dunno. Why did you create the scales? There must have been something
you thought interesting.