Re: [tuning] Messiaen's use of harmonic series [was: orchestral tunings]

Kurt wrote:
>Maybe I'd give this a try, if scala could convert a MIDI file to this
format
>so I'd have something to start out with

No, maybe in a future version of Scala. There hasn't been much
demand for this.

>but this is probably not that
>helpful if I have to enter pitch bend amounts

You don't, you can use cents, ratios and scale degree numbers.
Another limitation is that you can't have tuning motion of held
pitches.

>I might end up having to write my own software for this. But maybe I
could
>do something that you could include in scala?

>Basically I'd
>like to have a score interface that lets me add annotations that define
the
>just relationships, with some clicking and dragging and typing.

Aha, I think that's quite a lot of work to do in a general way.
Perhaps you can extend on an existing open source project which has
a score interface?
To integrate with Scala we could at least share file formats where
applicable.

>Also, maybe there is some in-between approach that will minimize
development
>effort, yet make this kind of task less tedious, and from which something
>could be learned about an ultimate better way to do this.

Sure, if you have useful suggestions for extending the Scala
tuning/retuning
function, I'm willing to consider them.

Manuel