Subject: Re: (New midi)Dactyls of Pisces

[Mats:]
>I myself don't hear much of a difference between the three midis, they
>all sound rather like a blend of meantone and 5-limit JI.

I'm not surprised, except that you didn't hear something "different"
about the 7-limit file. The c5 is fixed tuning, and the intervals ARE
meantonish, a quality dictated by the conflict between thirds and
fifths. The deviation from 12-tET, arranged in a circle of fifths
(0==C, 11==B):

( E4 11 42 (For pitch 4, we have target bend 6.7602) )
EC 6A 44 (For pitch 11, we have target bend 15.2843)
E6 15 44 (For pitch 6, we have target bend 13.1738)
E1 1A 42 (For pitch 1, we have target bend 6.9875)
E8 14 41 (For pitch 8, we have target bend 3.6702)
E3 57 40 (For pitch 3, we have target bend 2.1743)
EB 00 40 (For pitch 10, we have target bend 0.0093)
E5 2A 3F (For pitch 5, we have target bend -2.1488)
E0 4B 3D (For pitch 0, we have target bend -7.6434)
E7 64 3C (For pitch 7, we have target bend -10.1997)
E2 4A 3B (For pitch 2, we have target bend -13.9894)
EA 47 3B (For pitch 9, we have target bend -14.0784)
( E4 11 42 (For pitch 4, we have target bend 6.7602) )

Pitch 4 (E) is ambiguous; the rest fall clearly along a meantone-like
tuning, with every fifth a few cents flat.

As to 7-limit, only tritones make the tuning any different than 5-limit,
and, looking at your piece now, I see that the only significant tritone
is between note 3 and 9, an interval which is already well narrowed in
the context of the piece.

If you don't hear much difference between the c5 and the cs5, that's
probably good - I haven't jarred you with tuning motion. The cs5 should
be a touch sweeter in its intervals - listen for fifths particularly.

[Mats:]
>I should do a real 12tet/retuned version instead of this one which is
>merely a conversion of the original version(in the 17-tone schismic
>scale).

Not sure what distinction you're drawing here.

>Put them up if you want.

I'm still remote from my web site's ISP, so there's not much movement
there.

JdL