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LIME, Miller, and 26tET

🔗Carl Lumma <clumma@xxx.xxxx>

3/4/1999 6:51:52 PM

>>He sure does! Best use of 26tET I know of...
>
>I could only hear the .ra files unfortunately, but they're really good!
>I wish I could hear the 26tET piece -- one attempt at getting by Ensoniq
>synth to respond to MIDI tuning data (Scala) failed.

It's a ragtime-like thing with some nice 7-limit harmony and some very nice
key changes. The only other work I know of in 26 is by Darreg and McLaren.

I'm not sure I understand your midi problem; why did you write "Scala" in
there?

>Did you guys know that in 26tET, if you take two diatonic scales a
>half-octave apart...

I almost said, "too bad nobody's ever checked out Erlich's double-diatonic
scales in 26tET" when I posted that. Writing in these new scales is not
easy, especially when the tools are so cumbersome. Has anybody ever used
LIME?

>C.

Hey, pal, that's my letter of the alphabet :')

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx>

3/5/1999 1:10:20 PM

>>I could only hear the .ra files unfortunately, but they're really
good!
>>I wish I could hear the 26tET piece -- one attempt at getting by
Ensoniq
>>synth to respond to MIDI tuning data (Scala) failed.

>It's a ragtime-like thing with some nice 7-limit harmony and some very
nice
>key changes. The only other work I know of in 26 is by Darreg and
McLaren.

>I'm not sure I understand your midi problem; why did you write "Scala"
in
>there?

I meant my one attempt at getting [m]y Ensoniq synth to tuning data was
with a Scala file, so I didn't even try it with Miller's files.

>>Did you guys know that in 26tET, if you take two diatonic scales a
>>half-octave apart...

>I almost said, "too bad nobody's ever checked out Erlich's
double-diatonic
>scales in 26tET" when I posted that. Writing in these new scales is
not
>easy, especially when the tools are so cumbersome.

It's hard for keyboard-oriented composers when the basic scale has 14
notes. Mayumi overcame that obstacle, though (using the 14-note "Mayumi
13" scale)!