The amazing Scala

I certainly didn't mean to suggest that there was something "deficient" in
Scala... it is one of the most interesting and comprehensive programs I
have ever seen... certainly for tuning. It's just that "gsplay" wasn't
sending the sysex stuff to my TX81Z and the MIDI file method that Darren
Burgess suggested DID work...

Regardless, as I'm sure most (if not all) of you know -- this "hookup" with
Scala and an synthesizer puts us in an entirely different compositional
world. It's a mini laboratory. With performers these days so expensive
and generally inaccurate in xenharmonics, I would think that many composers
would turn (rather than resorting to minimalism or re-doing Prokofiev) to
these new ways of tuning and making music. What might be lost in sound
quality with a synthesizer is certainly gained in accuracy -- and it's all
CD-ready (!)

My greatest thanks to Mr. Op de Coul for making this all possible -- I
think I'm going to be living in this new world for quite some time!

Joseph Pehrson