Scala on MacOS

>Any plans to port the software to MacOS?
>
>90% of the MIDI studios in the U.S. are Macintosh based so it would seem to
>be more widely applicable if yur program was available on the Mac OS.
>
>I'm afraid there are no plans to port the software to MacOS. Scala is
>written in Ada, which makes the program very easily portable, but sad
>enough there is no decent Ada compiler for the Macintosh, at least not
>at the moment. So, the more people tell to Apple to fund and support
>development of an Ada compiler, like it funded porting of Linux, the
>better.

There is a possible intermediate solution- certain PowerMacs are "DOS
compatible", meaning they have a card with a 486 of unknown speed running in
parallel to the PowerPC. You can switch from DOS/Windows mode to Mac mode
and back with command-enter, and in fact start a job running under DOS and
switch back to the Mac while it's running. My Dad has one of these machines
and we managed to get a Windows-based mapping program and the Ensoniq ESP2
assembler working on it just fine. Scala should work too since its I/O is
pretty generic. Of course if you don't happen to have a Mac with this
option it wouldn't do you any good, but from what I hear it's a not uncommon
machine around academic computing centers and studios.

Steve Curtin
Ensoniq Corp


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A friend of mine and an excellent composer, Frederick Lesemann, did a piece
on a Moog Model 12 modular synth back in the 1970s based on "pi-octaves."
As I recall, these were based on the 12th root of pi by stretching
(amplifying) the control voltage to the oscillators. A very nice piece,
though I haven't heard it in years, and it was never recorded commercially.
I don't think Rick has had any other special interest in alternate tunings
since then. Another friend described the piece as "very tuneful" and said
that he walked away whistling the melodies. However, the moment he heard
any 12-TET afterwards, his ear "snapped back" and he was thereafter unable
to recall the pi-octave melodies.

Bill

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There are program notes in the booklet accompanying
the Chowning CD in the Wergo series, WER 2012-50.
JC sez he was using the golden mean for the ratios
of the partials, the ratios of the "octaves", and
the overall form. I can dredge up more details
from talking to him at the time, since we were
slaving away in the same dark and cavernous room,
but it sounds like you can get info from the source.
Stria was written in 1977, so I didn't mean to
imply anything wrt O'Connell (whom I've also never
heard of).

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