[Bluemusic-users] Java coding question or feature request...

[Chuckk H. <bad...@gm...>]

Hi.  I'm interested in microtonal music with no fixed scale, with
completely open modulation, so I could throw in any interval from any
note at any time.  Scala will create scales using prime limits, but
I'd be creating far more notes than I'll ever need in one piece; I
don't know until I finish the piece which pitches I will or won't
want.
I've been experimenting with Blue's piano roll, leaving it in 12-tET
but taking out "<freq>" in the note template and manually inserting
numerator and denominator of each note as p-fields.  Just like Scala's
.seq format, but with a graphic representation for note start time and
duration, instead of calculating ticks, and of course with all the
added power of Csound synthesis.  It works pretty well.
I'm staring at Blue this morning and wondering how hard it would be to
learn enough Java to modify my version to allow two p-fields to show
up as scrollable integers on each note in piano roll.  Perhaps they
would be labeled, like <num> and <denom>, and the labels would show in
the note template for manipulation by my instruments.

I know this setup wouldn't be much use to anyone else; I like mixing
Partch's tonalities with Greek and Islamic scales, etc, and Partch
already used dozens of pitches.  How hard would this be- should I
bother?

Thanks.
Chuckk

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