MIDI-tuning, file player

Dear friends in music,

I'm experimentating with the beautiful freeware MIDI-tuning program Scala
(see link: http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/ ) which also contains a
MIDI file picker "MegaMid".
This one is limitated as to the number of simultaneous notes being played
at the same time,
as it does not support MIDI standard tuning, only single note.
Do you know if there is another device without this limitation ?

One of my projects is in a self-designed scale based on the ratio 8/7:
divide this interval by 2 and repeat that upwards from the basic note e
flat at 19,44544 Hz.
You'll find there is no clean octave to be found, and only a quite flat
fifth. Very exciting both
in "tonal" as well as in "atonal" context.

Interested in a short mp3-example ? I'll be ready soon...

Bye

Dr. Werner Linden a.k.a. Mad Musicologist

please e-mail to: wernerlinden@aol.com

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Wernerlinden@a... wrote:

> One of my projects is in a self-designed scale based on the ratio
8/7:
> divide this interval by 2 and repeat that upwards from the basic
note e
> flat at 19,44544 Hz.

this is extremely similar to the non-octave miracle scale that's been
discussed around here . . .

> You'll find there is no clean octave to be found, and only a quite
flat
> fifth.

. . . the difference is that miracle has a generator just slightly
wider, called the secor,

http://sonic-arts.org/dict/secor.htm

wide enough for 6 of them to produce ~700-cent fifths, and other
numbers of them produce all the other 11-limit consonances within 3
cents of just intonation. when you don't wrap around the octave,
though, you get only one of the octave-equivalent versions of each,
of course.

> Very exciting both
> in "tonal" as well as in "atonal" context.
>
> Interested in a short mp3-example ?

Yes, can't wait!

Werner Linden wrote:
>which also contains a
>MIDI file picker "MegaMid".
>This one is limitated as to the number of simultaneous notes being played
>at the same time,
>as it does not support MIDI standard tuning, only single note.
>Do you know if there is another device without this limitation ?

The limited number of simultaneous notes is caused by the fixed
amount of MIDI channels in the MIDI standard, so it's not a limitation
of Megamid as such.
The MIDI Tuning Standard is supported by a few softsynths like
Timidity (free), Native Instruments Absynth 2.0, FM7, Pro-52 (commercial).
Audio Compositor's implementation is unfortunately broken.
There are also some hardware synths that support it, see the Scala
documentation.

Manuel