TUNING digest 1451

Greg Schiemer wrote:

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I've seen Jicalc but Scala seems more suitable for
working with Csound and it has an amazing scales archive. Is there any way
of accessing the scales archive from Jicalc ? Does JiCalc have script
files (equivalent of .CMD files in Scala) ?
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There is no way of directly reading Scala files into JICalc, but JICalc can
import and export scales in its own well-defined & documented (in the Help
stack) text format. Writing an external utility to translate Scala files
into this format shouldn't be that difficult. Perhaps a future version
will include the translation.

JICalc has no scripting per se. Conceivably AppleScript could be used to
control the Hypercard engine, but I don't know enough about AppleScript to
guess how possible or difficult this would be for your purpose.

On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Gary Morrison wrote:
> Rick Sanford wrote:
> > Aside from the 7/4 biz, do you know of a generalized term
> > for scales using only two size of intervals one after another
> > (like the traditional whole step, half step octatonics)
> > and their derivatives? I'll cc John C. who might steer me
> > right.
>
> Easley Blackwood identified those as "symmetric modes".

Hmm. What about a mode like (in 12TET) 0, 1, 4, 6, 7, 10 (steps of
1-3-2-1-3-2)? It's symmetric at the tritone, but it has three different
stepsizes.

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