About his quartertone notation, I managed to use some postscript fonts for using in Abcm2ps. I've made also an equivalence for western music, like the one found in some bretonian songs (I found it in a CD)
I've upload a pdf with the result if some may be interested : anamnese.online.fr/abc/quartertone.pdf the midifile of the scales are : anamnese.online.fr/abc/midi_quartert.zip I think it sounds rather bad, not close to the original music (maybe because it uses the pitchbend function). I'll seek further if it's possible to do something better. > using timidity to play the midi file, >then you can reset the temperament to contain quartertone >intervals. Thanks for the tips. Timidity could be usefull then if I can totally customize the temperament (not only use quarter-tones). In fact Persian music can be simplified by using quarter-tones, but in practice quarter-tones are not used, and the pitch difference between 2 notes are dependent of the "modes" : for example seekers made experiences and noticed the traditional musicians in practice used for a "mode" 33 "savars" between B and c, and for an other 26.5 savars between B and c (here the savar is 1/50 of the occidental tone, so 26.5 would be very close to our B, but 33 would be for 2/3 tone) I don't know much about all this, I'm still learning) >I would guess it needs to be sent an event to put things back to >normal, otherwise MIDI would assume that the pitch is still bent for >successive notes. yes, that's why I was forced to "cheat" in the code by adding those !=! (or !normal!) after the note to reset the pitchbend. I'd really like to find a solution to get rid of them. >I don't know if http://home.planet.nl/~roosp/mt_pitch.html is right or not >Sorry if it turns out I'm being stupid, only trying to help and understand. thank you ! I don't think this was a stupid answer at all ! :) >I'm not really a programmer (though I can read a tiny bit of C) My real it's exactly the same for me : I can read and make some small changes, but can't rewrite all or add something new in the sources. >The problem with using midi pitchbend is that the number which represents >the amount of pitch change is not standardised oh, it's usefull to know then. I'll do some further comparisons to know more about it, and if it can be faultly to use the pitchbend for this purpose then. But if it turns to be standardized at least on the soundcard, I think it's enough. Maybe a "finetune" change would be better, if it's possible (but I can't find it in abc2midi source code). I think I should study more closely the midi standard. About the postscript definition (for using with abcm2ps), here are them : %%postscript /sori { % usage: str x y sori %%postscript gsave translate 0.022 dup scale %%postscript 0 100 translate %%postscript newpath %%postscript 120 327 moveto %%postscript 105 329 lineto %%postscript 104 -92 lineto %%postscript 114 -86.5 113 -91 120 -87 curveto %%postscript 120 327 lineto %%postscript closepath %%postscript 16 316 moveto %%postscript 1 318 lineto %%postscript 0 -103 lineto %%postscript 11 -97 9 -102 16 -98 curveto %%postscript 16 316 lineto %%postscript closepath %%postscript fill %%postscript -51 219 moveto %%postscript 232 127 lineto %%postscript -47 -5 lineto %%postscript -47 33 lineto %%postscript 160 123 lineto %%postscript -50 183 lineto %%postscript -51 219 lineto %%postscript closepath %%postscript fill %%postscript grestore %%postscript } bdef %%postscript %%postscript /koron { % usage: str x y koron %%postscript gsave translate 0.022 dup scale %%postscript 0 100 translate %%postscript newpath %%postscript 26 361 moveto %%postscript 26 228 lineto %%postscript 174 298 lineto %%postscript 26 361 lineto %%postscript closepath %%postscript 26 -138 moveto %%postscript 16 -146 18 -138 0 -145 curveto %%postscript 0 397 lineto %%postscript 25 397 lineto %%postscript 228 300 lineto %%postscript 26 190 lineto %%postscript 26 -138 lineto %%postscript closepath %%postscript fill %%postscript grestore %%postscript } bdef %%postscript %%postscript /quartdiese { % usage: str x y quartdiese %%postscript gsave translate 0.022 dup scale %%postscript -100 100 translate %%postscript newpath %%postscript 16 48 moveto %%postscript 292 72 lineto %%postscript 292 32 lineto %%postscript 16 8 lineto %%postscript 16 48 lineto %%postscript closepath %%postscript fill %%postscript 164 -152 moveto %%postscript 164 -152 lineto %%postscript 164 397 lineto %%postscript 138 397 lineto %%postscript 138 -151 lineto %%postscript 138 -151 lineto %%postscript 150 -154 151.333 -163.333 164 -152 curveto %%postscript 164 -152 lineto %%postscript closepath %%postscript fill %%postscript 12 210 moveto %%postscript 288 234 lineto %%postscript 288 194 lineto %%postscript 12 170 lineto %%postscript 12 210 lineto %%postscript closepath %%postscript fill %%postscript grestore %%postscript } bdef %%postscript %%postscript /quartbemol { % usage: str x y quartbemol %%postscript gsave translate 0.022 dup scale %%postscript -100 100 translate %%postscript newpath %%postscript 10 296 moveto %%postscript 294 362 lineto %%postscript 294 332 lineto %%postscript 14 268 lineto %%postscript 10 296 lineto %%postscript closepath %%postscript fill %%postscript 138 81 moveto %%postscript 138 397 lineto %%postscript 164 397 lineto %%postscript 164 75 lineto %%postscript 180 91 lineto %%postscript 184 95 187.333 97.3333 190 98 curveto %%postscript 198 103 lineto %%postscript 214 109 lineto %%postscript 230 111 lineto %%postscript 250 111 266 105 278 93 curveto %%postscript 290 81 298 67 302 51 curveto %%postscript 302 46 lineto %%postscript 302 31.3333 298 18 290 6 curveto %%postscript 280 -7 lineto %%postscript 272.667 -15.6667 264.333 -24.6667 255 -34 curveto %%postscript 236 -52 lineto %%postscript 217 -70 lineto %%postscript 170 -112 lineto %%postscript 157.333 -123.333 146.667 -136.333 138 -151 curveto %%postscript 138 81 lineto %%postscript closepath %%postscript 218 -14 moveto %%postscript 230 14 lineto %%postscript 232.667 21.3333 234 29.6667 234 39 curveto %%postscript 234 51 231.667 59.8333 227 65.5 curveto %%postscript 222.333 71.1667 215.667 74.6667 207 76 curveto %%postscript 201 76 194 74 186 70 curveto %%postscript 179.333 65.3333 172 58.6667 164 50 curveto %%postscript 164 -88 lineto %%postscript 187.333 -63.3333 205.333 -38.6667 218 -14 curveto %%postscript closepath %%postscript fill %%postscript grestore %%postscript } bdef %%postscript %%deco koron 3 koron 8 0 0 %%deco b 3 quartbemol 8 0 0 %%deco sori 3 sori 8 0 0 %%deco # 3 quartdiese 8 0 0 of course it's possible to made many changes for conveniance. An example of use : X:4 T:Dastgâh-e Esfahân (ancien) M:none L:1/4 Q:1/4=290 K:C %%MIDI program 111 G A _B c d !koron! e !=! !sori!f !=! g | ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
