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Scala seq files for 5 or 7 limit JI

🔗genewardsmith <genewardsmith@...>

9/5/2011 12:42:14 PM

Does anyone have any seq files they think might make for good musical illustrations of the stuff on this page:

http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Using+Scala+to+transform+just+intonation

🔗Carl Lumma <carl@...>

9/12/2011 10:37:36 AM

"genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@...> wrote:

> Does anyone have any seq files they think might make for good
> musical illustrations of the stuff on this page:
>
> http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Using+Scala+to+transform+just+intonation

I requested monzo/val notation support in .seq files, and
Manuel added it in about a day. Then I discovered that
converting scores (usually in 12-ET) to this notation can
take considerably longer.

Wonderful wikipage by the way. The transformations you've
outlined here (and in many old tuning-math posts someone
should dig up) are amazingly rich and represent a thousand
years of material for the tone-row and algocomp communities.

-Carl

🔗genewardsmith <genewardsmith@...>

9/12/2011 10:57:18 AM

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <carl@...> wrote:

> I requested monzo/val notation support in .seq files, and
> Manuel added it in about a day. Then I discovered that
> converting scores (usually in 12-ET) to this notation can
> take considerably longer.

I've been pushing for vals in the Quantize command, and monzos in .scl files, but no luck yet.

> Wonderful wikipage by the way.

Thanks!

🔗Carl Lumma <carl@...>

9/12/2011 4:40:55 PM

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@...> wrote:
>
> I've been pushing for vals in the Quantize command,

How would that work?

-Carl

🔗genewardsmith <genewardsmith@...>

9/12/2011 5:04:58 PM

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <carl@...> wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@> wrote:
> >
> > I've been pushing for vals in the Quantize command,
>
> How would that work?

Manuel told me it already does, except not yet under Quantize. Go to Modify, and then down to Project. Click the Project the val option. Then put a val into the box, and voila!

🔗Carl Lumma <carl@...>

9/12/2011 9:11:44 PM

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@...> wrote:

> Manuel told me it already does, except not yet under Quantize.
> Go to Modify, and then down to Project. Click the Project the
> val option. Then put a val into the box, and voila!

What does it do? -Carl

🔗genewardsmith <genewardsmith@...>

9/13/2011 8:26:20 AM

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <carl@...> wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@> wrote:
>
> > Manuel told me it already does, except not yet under Quantize.
> > Go to Modify, and then down to Project. Click the Project the
> > val option. Then put a val into the box, and voila!
>
> What does it do? -Carl

It takes the rational numbers in a scale, applies the val, and converts the result to cents for a scale in cents. In other words, what the Quantize command does, only in more generality since you can use any val.

🔗Carl Lumma <carl@...>

9/13/2011 10:06:35 AM

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@...> wrote:

> > > Manuel told me it already does, except not yet under Quantize.
> > > Go to Modify, and then down to Project. Click the Project the
> > > val option. Then put a val into the box, and voila!
> >
> > What does it do? -Carl
>
> It takes the rational numbers in a scale, applies the val, and
> converts the result to cents for a scale in cents. In other
> words, what the Quantize command does, only in more generality
> since you can use any val.

Ah, that is handy. -C.