source file: m1438.txt Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 10:29:15 -0500 Subject: RE: Patrick/Roland future From: "Loffink, John" I've been working on such a list for my web site based upon information from this forum. I will post it soon and open it up for comments. I'm breaking the wish list up into low, medium and high end, as some requests are too specialized to be achieved on all instruments. 1) Full keyboard scales are obviously preferable, except when you have something like Justonic's Pitch Pallette that updates tunings in realtime over MIDI. Sending an entire keyboard table clogs up the MIDI data stream, while an octave table does not. This is the argument I have against the stance that full keyboard scales are all that is necesary. We've waited centuries to get keyboard-based instruments that can modulate freely in just intonation, why hamper it now by limited software definitions? Until we get a better protocol than MIDI I think a mix of keyboard and octave scales is needed. 2) I feel that 5 or 6 quickly accessible tunings are insufficient if you're doing realtime modulation in just intonation. I recommend at least 64 tables (defined globally and assigned per MIDI channel) for a medium priced instrument. John Loffink jloffink@pdq.net > From: Rick Sanford <76122.2237@compuserve.com> > > Has there, in the past, ever been a "wish list" > sent around collectively? Things like pitch > resolution, non-octave repeating scales, etc? > > The two pieces I find usually missing are: > 1) Only 12 pitches to choose (then next octave > repeats) > 2) Only ONE (or maybe 2, e.g. Yamaha) storable > user scale, necessitating frequent trips to > a librarian application to get a new tuning. > > Ideally, for me, one would have 5 or 6 tunings > quickley accessible, then these would also > be non octave-repeating. We could frame our request > as coming from the WM school, no? > >