Mine is extremely non-real-time though. For live MIDI playing and hearing, I believe that the ultimate in this kind of thing is SCALA:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/ Another is Fractal Tune Smithy: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robertwalker/index.htm#tunesmithy There's also Lil' Miss Scale Oven: http://www.nonoctave.com/tuning/LilMissScaleOven/ C Bailey On Sat, 14 May 2005, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: > Considering that I am late to this conversation and have failed to > completely read-up on the entire thread, I may end-up sounding completely > redundant. That being said :-), if you are interested in alternate tuning > using kludge MIDI standard, you can do 2 of the following: > > 1) Get a synth that supports custom tuning and simply remaps default MIDI > note-on/off messages to different pitches (this is less than optimal as it > is far from an universal solution). > > 2) Get into some of the solutions written that provide you with MIDI score > where one note is played per channel with some amount of pitch-bend applied > to it. I would suggest looking into Christopher Bailey's LISP web-based > script that generates such MIDI scorefiles. For more info please see: > > http://music.columbia.edu/~chris/micromidi/main.html > > Hope this helps! > > Best wishes, > > Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor > http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-audio-dev- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James McDermott > > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 6:41 PM > > To: The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Guidelines for developing a music editor > > > > (I'll answer this as best I can, feel free to correct me where I'm wrong.) > > > > > In the other thread you kindly provided me with some advice and links, > > > including mentioning the MIDI Tuning Standard and OSC. > > > > This seems like a very hard problem. Since your sequencer is "just > > that: a sequencer", you'll also need plugin hosts and/or standalone > > synths too, which understand either MIDI tuning or OSC. (One > > OSC-driven plugin host, Om, has been mentioned already). The majority > > of standalone synths and plugins will probably never be able to play > > anything other than a conventional tuning, so that's a problem, unless > > you're happy to write a few of your own. > > > > (By the way, re VST, some existing synths and/or plugin hosts can host > > VST, but again most VSTs expect MIDI or MIDI-style commands and > > implicitly assume a conventional tuning.) > > > > I'd love to see a general-purpose OSC sequencer, and I'm sure others > > would too, so keep me informed if you're thinking of taking this > > approach, and maybe I can help out in some way. >
