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Excel tuning worksheet

🔗Patrick K. Mullen <mullen@csulb.edu>

8/23/2000 1:29:54 PM

--- In tuning@egroups.com, "shreeswifty" <ppagano@b...> wrote:
> > > Then I discovered Csound! Now I use an Excel workbook with several
>> > interlinking spreadsheets for my adaptive tuning work. In a nutshell,
>> > one sheet holds an imported MIDI file that has been converted to
>> > text. This sheet also provides a convenient place to specify key and
>> > transposition, if needed. Another sheet supplies tables of pitch
>> > class and equally tempered frequencies for the MIDI note numbers, and
>> > a third sheet supplies the ratios associated with the diatonic major
>> > and minor scales. These include only dominant-side ii (9/8) and vii
>> > (9/5). I haven't automated contextual tuning yet, so I have to
>> > hand-tune plagal-side ii (10/9) and vii (16/9) and dominant 7ths. The
>> > diatonic chords are mostly 5-limit, but dominant 7ths are 7-limit.
>> > Finally, yet another sheet is used as an export platform to Csound.
>> >
>>
>> Dear Patrick,
>>
>> would you care to share your workbook?
>> i would love to try it out.
>> I am currently using t2mf as well but i am a bit of a foon when it comes to
>> excel
>> (though i can make a keen 3d pie chart! in a pinch.! :-)
>>
>>
> > cheers

Sure. I'll have to put together a README to explain some stuff. It will probably take a few days to get to it...