[PD] Musical notation object on Pd

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, João Pais wrote:

> don't forget that chromatic pitches is just a small fraction of what's 
> available.

Don't forget that I have little interest in microtonal. Don't forget that 
this is an abstraction, and you can either modify it to support microtonal 
and I accept, or you modify it and I refuse the changes and you rename it 
to [microtone] and then I accept it. (!)

> then there's quarter-, eight-, sixteenth-, etc. tones (just to say some 
> for which there exist already notation standards),

Never seen those. We're getting close to the precision limit of the mouse 
anyway, so, you will have to figure out another way to get more precise 
than 100 ¢ (I never liked the single-pixel precision of Pd, so, when 
we're already down to 2 px per 100 ¢,

> "natural" tunings (harmonic series), other tunings

If you need any kind of just-intonation, it's better to write it in whole 
semitones at first and then use a translator that turns 64 into 63.8631 
and so on, isn't it ? Or are there any complications with that ?

> cent notation...

Why not use [nbx] or a plain numberbox (Ctrl+3) for that ?

> as I see it, no notation object is complete without being possible to 
> incorporate these as well (I didn't download your object yet, so didn't 
> see how you do it).

And once it is completed, people will find another reason to call it 
non-complete, such as its inability to represent probability distributions 
of pitches that are supposed to sound different each time you play them, 
or what if the pitch is a complex number, or a quaternion, or a matrix. I 
mean, I don't really believe in this "complete" word, unless I can see an 
end to the feature expansion.

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