[chuck-users] Keyboard Stuff

Hans Aberg haberg at math.su.se
Fri Apr 17 15:13:23 EDT 2009


On 17 Apr 2009, at 20:38, Andrew C. Smith wrote:

> Have you thought about having a voice map correspond to your key map?
> As in, have Db and C# assigned to the same voice, because presumably
> if you're using E31 you're looking for pure consonances and not
> extreme dissonances.

This is a good idea, though in normal playing, one moves between scale  
degrees. So pitches that differ only by a number of flats or sharps.  
(One might define a scale degree d = p + q of the note p M + q m,  
where M is major and m a minor second. Also, scale degrees are  
important in much music: 12-tone atonal music I think might be  
described as 12-scale degrees per octave instead of 7.)

> That way you would only need 12 voices (if each
> enharmonic pitch shared a voice with its other enharmonic pitch)
> instead of 256.  It would limit your playing somewhat, but it all
> depends on what you're going for.

But one cannot be sure. Not even Mozart follows that convention,  
though true in most music. So one needs extra generators.

> I'm not a very good ChucKist, and I didn't really fully understand
> your code, but I do understand the garbage collection problem.

So you might be the man on this problem, then :-).

> Also,
> I'm a dedicated microtonalist, which is one reason why I'm following
> this thread.  Good luck!

That is one reason I am interested in it. I might move ahead to  
oriental style intermediate pitches. Then making a wholly new key map  
might be too difficult to learn playing. So I want to somehow making  
the key map deformable so that those scale fit.

   Hans




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