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Re: Non octave over / under scale

🔗Robert Walker <robertwalker@ntlworld.com>

6/26/2002 8:33:25 PM

Hi Dan,

> Something very useful to note is that the algorithm decreases in
> accuracy the higher the period, but by the same token it increases in
> accuracy--and to a really astonishing degree--the smaller the period,
> even if the rounding of x is quite severe such as to the nearest whole
> number.

Yes indeed - I've just tried out 5/4 as the scale repeat and got very close to n-et.

> One suggestion I'd like to make is that the optimum x, which you've
> already included, actually be the initial default for the x at he top
> of the page. This way you can tweak that if you like, but it initially
> gives you the series at its optimum bend value... and this would be
> both relevant and quite handy as it keeps you from having to scroll
> down and cut and paste every time you tweak the period and the number
> of notes. Other than that it's freakin aces!

> (Now if we could only get it to give each x its corresponding Scale
> Tree!)

Those are easy changes as it so happens
(about a dozen lines of code or thereabouts) - done

http://tunesmithy.co.uk/uo_non_oct.htm

If anyone has just been browsing that page
recently, old version may be in your cache
- in Windows anyway, exit from internet explorer
(all of its windows if you have several web pages
on the go at once) and start it up again and
reload the page and you should see the new
changes)

Robert