Re: John deLaubenfels' post

>I am currently porting my real-time JI software from the NeXT to a PC
>running Windows 95. I have also begun writing tuning software that has
>access to a completed .midi file, and thus can look forward in time,
>something real-time software can't do.

Super!

>Chords such as full diminished 7ths and augmented triads, creatures of
equal >temperament, my software simply leaves tuned in equal temperament.

Have you considered 10-12-14-17 (or, in some cases, 9-11-13-15) for the
diminished 7th?

The augmented triad can be more tricky. Here's a list of possibilities,
all of them smoother than 3tET to my ear...

1)The "literal" translation, 1/1-5/4-25/16, pretty tense
2)"Classical" version, 1/1-5/4-8/5, very similar to #1
3)1/1-5/4-19/12, still spacy enough for most applications
4)8-10-13, too smooth for many applications

>Other problem chords, such as those with four or more notes forming
>consecutive fifths, may also be tuned in 12-tone, in which fifths aren't
too >bad, and thirds are at least preferable to those generated in 3-limit
>tuning!

True, but do the 3rds matter as much as the 5ths?

Carl