[PD] Birds use stars - diatonic

[Mathieu Bouchard]

> You can also take your values mod 12 and use those numbers to read 
> indices in a 12-member table you've populated with a mapping onto your 
> favorite scale.  If your values are floats you might round them first.
>  You can also keep track of the whole-number quotient of your value 
> divided by 12 so that you can get your specific octave back as well -- 
> this gives you the equivalent of an "octave-pitch-class" notation,
> like the kind you might find in csound.

your method does not take into account that the mapping to the closest 
note has two different widths, 2 halftones for notes not next to a 
semitone interval, 1.5 halftone for those that are (Mi,Fa,Si,Do).

what I was alluding to, for multiple octaves, is to use something like 
[wrap], so that you can use a chain of [moses] made for one octave, 
removing the octave number before going into [moses] and putting back 
right after.

but since all ranges are multiples of a quartertone, one could multiply 
the midi note by 2, round, then go through a [tabread]. if you don't 
convert to quartertones, the rounding to the closest integer will conflict 
with the goal of rounding to the closest note, so you won't be able to get 
the closest note.

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