Autotune Petition?

I recently picked up a copy of Antares' Autotune plugin for Digital Performer.
Autotune, in short, takes digitized monophonic audio and quantizes its tuning to
a given tuning, with surprisingly little distortion to any other aspect of the
sound, if you configure it carefully. It is not limited to 12TET either. It
comes with a small library of historical and other tunings, and will quantize
your pitch to, say 19TET for example.

An Antares' salesman told me (as far as I can tell accurately) that although it
has a library of tunings, it has no ability to define your own such tunings.

I'm thinking about getting together a signature campaign to lobby Antares to add
the ability to define your own tunings. Perhaps strangely, what I'd like to
suggest would be to have it read just a plain ol' raw text file of frequencies.
Why? Two reasons:

1. That would be a straight-forward, completely-general, and
platform-independent way to allow programs like Scala or JI Calc to define
tunings for it.
2. That is probably simple enough that they would actually consider doing it.

Would anybody be willing to willing to back me on this, by which I mean write a
quick letter to Antares saying that you'd like them to add this feature?

--- In tuning@egroups.com, Gary Morrison <MR88CET@T...> wrote:
> Would anybody be willing to willing to back me on this, by which I
mean write a
> quick letter to Antares saying that you'd like them to add this
feature?

Yes, but they might not listen to me, as I don't own the software
currently.

I'm interested. Type up a petition, and I'll probbaly sign it.

-Carl

Hi Gary,

>Perhaps strangely, what I'd like to suggest would be to have it read
>just a plain ol' raw text file of frequencies.

I'd prefer cents or factors. They would probably prefer whatever they
use internally. You might want to work on getting them to incorporate
*any* configurability and then work on improving that configurability.
Just a suggestion. :-)

>Would anybody be willing to willing to back me on this, by which I mean
>write a quick letter to Antares saying that you'd like them to add this
>feature?

I would be willing to write to them. I'd have to qualify it as, "I do
not own your software, but would seriously consider buying it if it
could do this..."

Let us know if you have enough backers to proceed with this email
campaign. :-)

Cheers,
Christopher