source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 14:22:33 -0800 Subject: Scala 1.2 online From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) Scala version 1.2 for PC is now online, the location is the same: ftp://ella.mills.edu/ccm/tuning/software/pc/scala/scala.zip It is a very complete freeware editor/librarian/analysis tool for tunings. It allows scales to be created, manipulated and combined in many different ways. A large library of scales is available for it. It can tune various different synthesizers and samplers via standard MIDI-files. To install, unpack scala.zip in an empty directory and read the readme file. The ANSI.SYS screen driver must be installed. Version 1.2 is an update with several new features, to name some: - The MIDI Tuning Standard's bulk dump is now supported. - A new command POLYNOMIAL/SOLVE finds roots of polynomials (for equal beating tunings). - A new command EXAMPLE creates from a customisable template universal microtonal MIDI-files with the pitch-bend method and dynamic channel allocation. - Fret positions can now be calculated. - More items were added to the SHOW commands. - A new command CHORDS shows chord approximations. - Some commands were improved to accept a wider parameter range and more qualifiers. For example the MODE command now accepts a literal string of intervals. - More tips were added. - More keyboard mappings were added. - More mode names were added. - The interval list is now also in French. - More command files are included to do scale manipulations. Some minor bugs were fixed and one major one in the PIPEDUM command. No backward-incompatible changes were made to the command language. Thanks to Paul Erlich, Fred Kohler, Kami Rousseau and Eduardo Sabat for their input with this version. Source code stats: 34664 lines of text of which 2482 empty and 3444 comments. The 28718 Ada lines contain 16478 statements and 175762 tokens. The size of the help file increased with 26% since the previous version. Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 23:20 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02083; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 23:23:38 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02081 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA26708; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 14:23:36 -0800 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 14:23:36 -0800 Message-Id: <009ADEE703698660.0639@vbv40.ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu