Re: double-blind listening experiments

Mclaren, you're absolutely right when you say that I picked the piece
I did because I think it shows my methods in a good light. That's why
I asked you (and/or anyone else who'd like to participate) to pick
piece(s) for blind testing. That offer is still open and will remain
open as long as I am on this list.

I think that perhaps you have a misapprehension as to what sequences my
program will process and which it won't. It will process _any_ piece
for which it is able to dynamically reassign MIDI channels without
running out (this is necessary because I use pitch bends to effect
tuning). It is, if you will, not "aware" of whether a piece is diatonic
or chromatic; it just does what it does regardless. If you pick piano
works, I can tune them. Works with many instruments may be a problem,
whether they are diatonic or chromatic.

It is not true that I asked my friends to pack the results, though if
you believe that I did, I can't prove to the contrary. It is also the
case that I'm not voting, but again I can't prove that.

And of course it is also the case that, even if the voting is 100%
against my own preference, my preference will remain my preference. I
am content to stand alone, if necessary, though like all of us I would
prefer to please others if possible.

JdL

Brian's suggestion of double blind is good, Brian's suggestion
of more than one sequence is good. But the MIDI-to-text-to-MIDI
will not work, owing to the size difference introduced by the
retuning process. John should make mp3s.

Note well, John, yet another person prefers the earlier versions
of your software...

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...which is not to say that the new one should become unavailable,
but that both should be available, at the choice of the user.

-Carl