Giant's Pets

Haverstick here...I am grateful for the interest in my 19 tone jazz
stuff...we finally rehearsed my 19/eq arrangement of Coltrane's "Giant
Steps" today, and it is a hoot to play. Very natural, too. Makes me
think of the discussions on this forum concerning who's a great com-
poser, and who is just an establishment darling...how rare it is to
hear folks on eartha ever mention Miles Davis, Coltrane, Ellington,
Mingus, Monk, Parker, Gillespie and many others as great composers;
yet, they were among the most important musicians of our, or any other,
time...interesting. Also, while we were rehearsing, my daughter put
party hats from her recent 7th bday on our heads...as we tackled
Auntie Wendy's tune "Beauty in the Beast, I couldn't help but think
that this was a great comment on our approach to the whole tuning
thing...Hstick

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Manuel Op de Coul wrote:

> There's the famous anecdote that someone from the East was at a
> concert of Western classical music, and when he was asked how he liked
> it he said he especially liked the first part. So his hosts asked
> whether it was the first movement that he liked, he said "no, before
> that!" I think it was emperor Hirohito but am not sure.

Ha! I hadn't heard that story!

>............... Two things can be wrong. Either you are missing the
> file 'help.par' which should be in the same directory as the program,
> or you are starting the program up from another directory than the
> one it's in. The program namely looks only in the working directory
> for its datafiles: help.par, intnam.par, modenam.par, harmon.par, etc.
> The working directory can be changed from within Scala with 'cd'.

Thank you for trying, but I've checked and I'm afraid it's neither of
these. I can't think what's wrong. Is the _name_ of the directory
significant? Do I need a PATH statement in my AUTOEXEC.BAT? Is SCALA
incompatible with DOSKEY or some device-driver?

Sorry to be a pest.

Peter


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Thanks for responding so quickly, Manuel. Still can't get Help to work
though.

> Maybe you have insufficient "files" or "buffers" in CONFIG.SYS.

I had...
BUFFERS=10,0
FILES=40
..and I've tried increasing them just in case, but still no Help.

> Or perhaps help.par was somehow corrupted. Try to edit it and see if
> there are these lines at the beginning of the file:
> ! Number of topics:
> 89
> If the number isn't there you get the behaviour you described.

It doesn't look corrupted. These lines are there. I even downloaded the
whole zip file again.

> Another possibility, but I think an unlikely one, that you have
> insufficient memory.

I'm confident it's not that. I'm not running Windows, or anything much,
at the same time as Scala.

> You can also check if the other datafiles were seen by doing
> MODE/ALL, this should give all the mode names, CALC 8/7, this should
> say "septimal whole tone" at the last line, and SHOW SYNTH should
> present the names in synth.par.

All these work perfectly. In fact I think _everything_ is working except
for Help. And my printer. If my printer was working I could print out the
help file :-(

> The new version 1.1 is coming very soon now.

Maybe I should wait for that! I'm really enjoying using your program and
have been filling my S760 with re-tuned samples.

Peter


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