[chuck-users] Keyboard Stuff

[Hans Aberg]

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

> 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.  That way you would only need 12 voices (if each
> enharmonic pitch shared a voice with its other enharmonic pitch)

Traditionally such chromaticisms may have been notated by simply  
taking 5 enharmonic accidentals to make up a total of 12 pitches (as  
in meantone keyboards). And in the program, they might be reassigned.

But in some cases one may not want to. Take the "Harry Lime Theme"  
from "The Third Man" movie, which starts (written) G G# A G# A. One  
might reason that the first G# is a successor to G, and then it might  
be better changing scale degree, to have it Ab. Then G# and Ab would  
appear close in time: G Ab A G# A.

And in E31 can make glissando-like sequences like G Abb G# Ab G## A.

So in principle, such situations might appear.

   Hans