Tonescape demo now available

The first public demo Tonescape™ download is now available!
(the "Den Haag" version), for Windows only:

http://tonalsoft.com/downloads/redist/Tonescape_Studio_Den_Haag.exe

I'll warn everyone here that this version has some new bugs
that the previous version didn't have ... and Tonescape
has grown beyond our capabilities to fix them right now.
If there are any experienced C# programmers out there who
would like to participate, please contact us!

There are currently no versions of Tonescape for Mac or Linux.

The installer will check your system for minimum requirements,
and will abort installation if those are not met. Please see:

http://tonalsoft.com/support/tonescape/knowledge.aspx

Also, please be warned that our webpages concerning
Tonescape installation are out of date: this demo version
will install simply and automatically.

Also be warned that there are NO HELP PAGES included
with this version of Tonescape. Some of them are available
here:

http://tonalsoft.com/support/tonescape/help/contents.aspx

but they are in the process of being created right now,
so in some cases the links in the Table of Contents don't
lead to anything.

These complete tutorials should prove helpful:

http://tonalsoft.com/support/tonescape/tutorials.aspx

I strongly recommend that anyone interested become a member
of the newly-created public Yahoo tonescape_denhaag group:

/tonescape_denhaag/

Enjoy!

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software

Great news! I'm downloading now.

-Carl

At 09:22 AM 1/28/2007, you wrote:
>The first public demo Tonescape™ download is now available!
>(the "Den Haag" version), for Windows only:
>
>http://tonalsoft.com/downloads/redist/Tonescape_Studio_Den_Haag.exe
>
>
>I'll warn everyone here that this version has some new bugs
>that the previous version didn't have ... and Tonescape
>has grown beyond our capabilities to fix them right now.
>If there are any experienced C# programmers out there who
>would like to participate, please contact us!
>
>
>There are currently no versions of Tonescape for Mac or Linux.
>
>
>The installer will check your system for minimum requirements,
>and will abort installation if those are not met. Please see:
>
>http://tonalsoft.com/support/tonescape/knowledge.aspx
>
>Also, please be warned that our webpages concerning
>Tonescape installation are out of date: this demo version
>will install simply and automatically.
>
>
>Also be warned that there are NO HELP PAGES included
>with this version of Tonescape. Some of them are available
>here:
>
>http://tonalsoft.com/support/tonescape/help/contents.aspx
>
>but they are in the process of being created right now,
>so in some cases the links in the Table of Contents don't
>lead to anything.
>
>
>These complete tutorials should prove helpful:
>
>http://tonalsoft.com/support/tonescape/tutorials.aspx
>
>
>I strongly recommend that anyone interested become a member
>of the newly-created public Yahoo tonescape_denhaag group:
>
>/tonescape_denhaag/
>
>
>Enjoy!
>
>
>-monz
>http://tonalsoft.com
>Tonescape microtonal music software

Congrats, Joe! I've also just joined the Tonescape list, see you
there...

Best,

jls

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@...> wrote:

> The first public demo Tonescape™ download is now available!
> (the "Den Haag" version), for Windows only:
>
> http://tonalsoft.com/downloads/redist/Tonescape_Studio_Den_Haag.exe
>
>
> I'll warn everyone here that this version has some new bugs
> that the previous version didn't have ... and Tonescape
> has grown beyond our capabilities to fix them right now.
> If there are any experienced C# programmers out there who
> would like to participate, please contact us!

Actually, i've been using the new Den Haag version of
Tonescape on a different computer from the one which has
the Mustang version, and i know for sure that there are
some bug issues with this computer.

So i was hasty to write that there are "new bugs" in
Den Haag, because now my copy of Tonescape Den Haag seems
to be working fine.

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@...> wrote:
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@> wrote:
>
> > The first public demo Tonescape™ download is now available!
> > (the "Den Haag" version), for Windows only:

http://tonalsoft.com/downloads/redist/Tonescape_Studio_Den_Haag.exe

When Tonescape is installed, it creates a "My Tonescape"
folder with 4 subfolders:

. Pieces
. Samples
. Tonespaces
. Tunings

the Samples folder itself has 3 subfolders (Pieces,
Tonespaces, and Tunings), each with several samples
of each the respective type of file.

I encourage everyone to open the files in the Pieces
folder and play them in Tonescape.

The two largest, which are also the two on which i've
done the most work, are:

. the Haba 2nd Quartet/1st movement, in 24-edo,
latticed in 3-11-prime-space; and

. the Beethoven "Cavatina" from his Bb quartet op.130,
in a 15-tone 1/6-comma meantone, latticed in 3-5-prime-space.

The Beethoven Lattice can be shown to great effect in
"Closed Curved" geometry, by right-clicking on the blue
Lattice background and selecting Geometry from the pop-up
menu. The result is the 4-strand meantone helix.

Primes 3 and 11 were chosen for the Haba prime-space
simply because 24-edo is excellent at approximating
ratios containing those two prime-factors. For the
Haba piece, i actually find viewing the Pitch-Height
notation more illuminating -- click the "Zoom Out"
button until the score is at maximum zoom-out, and
the vertical size of the notation window will just
barely encompass the entire range of pitches for all
four instruments.

My own "Invisible Haircut" gives an example of
a multi-dimensional extended-JI tuning,
in 3-5-7-11-13-19 prime-space.

To zoom in and out on the Lattice, use the "Page Up"
and "Page Down" keyboard keys, or the mouse roller
if your mouse has one. To rotate the Lattice, hold
down the "Ctrl" key and click anywhere on the blue
Lattice background, then as you move the mouse the
Lattice will rotate in 3 dimensions. You can do this
while a piece is playing too.

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software