potato, tomato

Drew wrote -

>Whoops, I say potato & you said tomato ! I wasn't refering to
>looping eating into RAM. I was speaking (so to speak) without regard
>to RAM usage.

but

>>>It would take one of those 128MB samplers to pull it off.

was what misled me....

Let's call the whole thing off!

Patrick O-L

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Rick Sanford wrote:
> >>Paul Hahn wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Careful - why do you call this a Mode?

Um, because it's a subset of an ET that's evenly enough distributed to
use as a scalar resource? Is there some stricter definition of "mode"
of which I've been unaware? There are the traditional Greek and
medieval modes, of course, but I assume in this forum that we wouldn't
limit ourselves just to them.

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Oh, P.S.: I believe the term is "symmetry".

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Rick Sanford wrote:
> And, incidentally, I am familar with some of the 15TET work of others,
> including
> Mr. Blackwood.

I never doubted you for a moment! I was just answering the question,
and asking a related one.