TUNING RESEARCH

Hi Aaron,
Lecture is one thing, listening and experimentating is the other,
and as I belive the more important one.
So I strongly recommend you Manuel Op De Coul's tuning software
Scala, which is the standard PC-based tuning utility. It has lots of functions for generating scales, and can upload them to your synthesizer or retune a MIDI file to one.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/
And, Manuel is very helpful with getting the program started, if there is any of the typical questions in te beginning of research.
Happy new ears !
Werner

I agree that listening and real experience cannot be replaced by
books. I have been using JI Calc, and I made an attempt to try
Scala on my Mac via Virtual PC, but was too frustrated. How do
people go about retuning a whole piece, not Scala-style all to
one scale, but selecting note-for-note how to tune a piece?
Would my best option to be to use Cubase (which I have) and
create multiple solo-parts on different MIDI channels and then
figure out the calculations for how to use proper pitch-bend
commands to adjust notes to exact tunings one by one? Or is
there a better way? Or is there some difficulty I should be aware
of before trying the Cubase possibility?

Aaron

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Wernerlinden@a... wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
> Lecture is one thing, listening and experimentating is the other,
> and as I belive the more important one.
> So I strongly recommend you Manuel Op De Coul's tuning
software
> Scala, which is the standard PC-based tuning utility. It has lots
of functions for generating scales, and can upload them to your
synthesizer or retune a MIDI file to one.
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/
> And, Manuel is very helpful with getting the program started, if
there is any of the typical questions in te beginning of research.
> Happy new ears !
> Werner

On Friday 21 November 2003 10:27 am, backfromthesilo wrote:
> I agree that listening and real experience cannot be replaced by
> books. I have been using JI Calc, and I made an attempt to try
> Scala on my Mac via Virtual PC, but was too frustrated. How do
> people go about retuning a whole piece, not Scala-style all to
> one scale, but selecting note-for-note how to tune a piece?
> Would my best option to be to use Cubase (which I have) and
> create multiple solo-parts on different MIDI channels and then
> figure out the calculations for how to use proper pitch-bend
> commands to adjust notes to exact tunings one by one? Or is
> there a better way? Or is there some difficulty I should be aware
> of before trying the Cubase possibility?
>
> Aaron

Hello Aaron (my Doppelgänger)-

As a Linux user myself, I use Scala for Linux (in fact, I was the original
person whom Manuel helped port it to Linux)

Perhaps if you use OS-X, you could compile Scala for the Mac?

Best,
AKJ (the other Aaron)

on 11/21/03 3:49 PM, Aaron K. Johnson <akjmicro@comcast.net> wrote:

> On Friday 21 November 2003 10:27 am, backfromthesilo wrote:
>> I agree that listening and real experience cannot be replaced by
>> books. I have been using JI Calc, and I made an attempt to try
>> Scala on my Mac via Virtual PC, but was too frustrated. How do
>> people go about retuning a whole piece, not Scala-style all to
>> one scale, but selecting note-for-note how to tune a piece?
>> Would my best option to be to use Cubase (which I have) and
>> create multiple solo-parts on different MIDI channels and then
>> figure out the calculations for how to use proper pitch-bend
>> commands to adjust notes to exact tunings one by one? Or is
>> there a better way? Or is there some difficulty I should be aware
>> of before trying the Cubase possibility?
>>
>> Aaron
>
> Hello Aaron (my Doppelgänger)-
>
> As a Linux user myself, I use Scala for Linux (in fact, I was the original
> person whom Manuel helped port it to Linux)
>
> Perhaps if you use OS-X, you could compile Scala for the Mac?

The older command-line version of scala is already available for OS X. I'm
not familiar enough to know what its limitations are other than lack of a
GUI. I'm pretty sure it has no live MIDI or audio capability, but midi file
stuff works I'm pretty sure.

-Kurt

>
> Best,
> AKJ (the other Aaron)
>
>
>
> You do not need web access to participate. You may subscribe through
> email. Send an empty email to one of these addresses:
> tuning-subscribe@yahoogroups.com - join the tuning group.
> tuning-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com - unsubscribe from the tuning group.
> tuning-nomail@yahoogroups.com - put your email message delivery on hold for
> the tuning group.
> tuning-digest@yahoogroups.com - change your subscription to daily digest mode.
> tuning-normal@yahoogroups.com - change your subscription to individual emails.
> tuning-help@yahoogroups.com - receive general help information.
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
>