Reply to Jon Szanto.

No doubt there are many free and inexpensive ways to implement
microtonality on a home computer but I'm not sure if there are many
cheap ways of implementing my musical algorithms. The tuning
capabilities of Kurzweils (and similar) from at least the K1200 onwards
are mainly responsible for my microtonal research findings concerning
12-note subsets of any equal temperament. I originally worked out the
fundamental design of my algorithm in 1993 using an Atari 1040ST, a
Kurzweil K1200 and Notator software. Things haven't changed very much
regarding my methods. Substitute a Windows XP, a Kurzweil K2500R, a
midi interface and any old software that comes along and voila! you get
a home entertainment microtonal system.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "robert thomas martin"
<robertthomasmartin@...> wrote:
>
> No doubt there are many free and inexpensive ways to implement
> microtonality on a home computer but I'm not sure if there are many
> cheap ways of implementing my musical algorithms.

If all you are doing is retuning collections of 12 pitches and
assigning them to the traditional 12 steps of Western diatonic music,
there are many ways to do it, and you don't have to end up buying
another piece of hardware. You say "musical algorithms", but all I've
seen are lists of pitches (frequencies), to be substituted for the
corresponding 12tet pitches. If I'm completely off the mark, please
forgive me, and I'll take a tutorial on your forum.

I realize what you have posted as a solution is what has worked for
*you*. I'm hoping you'll see that - even as a means to your particular
algorithmic end - there are *alternative* ways as well, including some
maybe less costly. Not better, just different.

Cheers,
Jon