new version: microcsound20090813 available

Hi all,

I fixed a bug related to Unicode characters in Python parsing routines
which involved the notation of 11 and 13 limit in symbolic diatonic
letter notation (basically, I'm using a quasi-HEWM notation scheme,
where 5 commas are '\' and '/', 7-commas are '<' and '>', 11-commas
are '!' and '¡' and 13-commas (33:32) are '?' and '¿'...the upside
down 11 and 13 high-ASCII characters where misbehaving....

I also added a great new feature--rational notation...so the JI/RI
fans can now dig in to using Csound in a very compact unlimited
way...it supports free-style modulation with tonal center
'transposition' too, so you don't need to worry about ever larger
numerators and denominators as you get away from 1/1, you can just
move 1/1 to another reference point! The program uses colons to denote
pitches in rational space, e.g. '7:4' instead of '7/4', this is b/c
the fraction form was already reserved for rhythmic default length
indicators.

Grab a copy from http://www.akjmusic.com/packages/microcsound20090813.tgz

As always, the latest tutorial is at
http://www.akjmusic.com/microcsound_tutorial.txt

It's FREE....should work out of the box for Linux and Mac...Windows, I
dunno, not tested, but shouldn't be hard. I'm happy to help with any
installation or usage issues, just contact me.

If anyone uses this tool to create some music, any music, let me
know...I'd love to hear your experience. If you a good enough
programmer in say Python or Perl or what have you, once you understand
the syntax, it should be easy for anyone to output some algorithmic
stuff as text input to this program, too....

Best,
AKJ

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Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.untwelve.org