On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 17:14 +0100, Kassen wrote: > I agree. More strongly even; when we do want to be in a tuning and > want to round floats we will most likely want to do that relative to > some scale, not to the tuning itself. > That way we could -for example- turn a scaled (sin (time)) in to a > sort of melody.
I agree that most of the time we probably want to map extra-musical data onto a fixed scale, and your example is very nice. I used a similar concept in a Max patch that mapped data from accel and gyro sensors attached to a yoyo. But I can see uses for the opposite approach too, mapping data onto microtonal notes even in unusual scales. Perhaps it would be beneficial to implement an (allow-microtonal [#t or #f]) option? Joel
