Apologies to Fractal Tune Smithies

I want to apologize to the Fractal Tune Smiths for any perceived
thrusts of the sword...

I believe my enthusiasm and interest in the Fractal Tune Smithy
software has been documented in earlier posts... I even BOUGHT it,
after all...

However, I was beginning to be frustated in getting SIMPLE,
non-fractal functions to work.

Perhaps, though, that is not the point... and it really is a kind of
PC "MAX"... a tool to let the computer itself do a lot of composing
without human intervention.

Say... that is a good antedote to the Tuning List composition
problem, isn't it?? We can simply let the computer make "random"
Fractal music for us and we can spend all our time on the Tuning List!

[This is a joke, N.B. N.B.... it doesn't seem like people can take
jokes -- or criticism -- anymore, without 'flames a flying'"]

I do think Carl Lumma had an excellent suggestion (although his post
seemed to indicate he found me, personally, a bit peculiar) in
pointing me toward Graham Breed's MIDI RELAY:

http://x31eq.com/software.htm

THIS is exactly what I was looking for.

It will IMMEDIATELY play Scala files, and you can play them on your
keyboard without "fractal intervention."

Thanks for this, Carl, and I wish I had known about this application
earlier...

I wonder what other software I'm missing...

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Joseph Pehrson

>I want to apologize to the Fractal Tune Smiths for any perceived
>thrusts of the sword...

That's alright, thanks.

Robert

--- In tuning@egroups.com, "Robert Walker" <robert_walker@r...> wrote:

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> >I want to apologize to the Fractal Tune Smiths for any perceived
> >thrusts of the sword...
>
> That's alright, thanks.
>
> Robert

Thank you, Robert, for your comments. I *was* enjoying the Smithy,
but I realized I needed it to do simple things, like play Scala files
slowly, ascending, so I could get a "feel" for them before the
"Fractal" experiments "kicked in." Actually, I do believe Carl Lumma
was right, the more I think about it. I was trying to get the
application to do things it basically is not designed to do. I'm
finding that Graham Breed's MIDI RELAY is really doing more this job
for me...

However, it might be nice to have such simple functions incorporated
into Fractal Tune Smithy... it seems a tad difficult to get it to
give these basic scale "appraisals."

Anyway, good luck with it... and I did enjoy "messing around" with my
copy...

Best,

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Joseph Pehrson

>However, it might be nice to have such simple functions incorporated
>into Fractal Tune Smithy... it seems a tad difficult to get it to
>give these basic scale "appraisals."

>Anyway, good luck with it... and I did enjoy "messing around" with my
>copy...

Right, I'll give it some thought. I think perhaps what I'll do is add small
play buttons below the scale and arpeggio drop lists, with the speed
independently configured, default maybe two notes per sec.

It would be just like the ones in the New Scale and Arpeggio windows but
more accessible, configured from the same place.

Maybe do the same for the seed box as well so you can hear the seed once on
its own, useful for the ones where the notes of the seed are distributed
amongs several instruments and transposed by a variety of octaves or other
intervals.

I've just tried out the buttons for layout and it looks okay and not too
fussy.

I'm thinking about the buttons anyway as next one may have a record button
to record to WAV (in response to Pat Bergano's posting), depending on what
works out best, and a fast forward button as well perhaps.

Thanks again for registering!

(I say again because prog will have said thanks when you registered.)

Robert

--- In tuning@egroups.com, "Robert Walker" <robert_walker@r...> wrote:

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> Thanks again for registering!
>
> (I say again because prog will have said thanks when you
registered.)
>
> Robert

You're quite welcome, Robert! And thank you for taking some of my
little suggestions seriously. Also, by the way, I wasn't getting the
software to immediately interact with my MIDI keyboard (??)

I am quite amazed by the work that you have done with this... and it
surely is a great accomplishment. Sorry, again, if I was critical...
I guess I was just in my own "little world" for a moment, and needed
the software to do a couple of things that were important to me....
Just momentary frustation.

But, good luck with this... and fractals really are beautiful.

Maybe it would be interesting to have an audible display accompanied
by VISUAL FRACTALS... I could see an art gallery doing this as a
continuing exhibition. Very hip.
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Joseph Pehrson