[PD] equal tempered scale object available

[Jamie Bullock]

Hi Niklas,

I have already implemented exactly what you have described as an
external called 'spectonote' written in C. It can be found at
www.postlude.co.uk/download.

I apologise profusely for not announcing this properly on the list, and
adding it to the pdb (which I have now done). The code can be
implemented very easily in vanilla pd, so I assumed no-one would be
interested. Obviously I was wrong.

I should also change the name to fton (frequency to note) to fit in with
convention.

Regards,

Jamie

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 13:29, Niklas Saers wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
> 
> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> 
> > Candid question: what's the advantage of that over the builtin [mtof] 
> > class?...
> 
> Mea culpa, I have not used expr much, so when I copied your example 
> below into Pd I got "no such var 'fl'" when using ftom (I expected this 
> was what you wanted as the idea was going from a frequency to a number 
> representation of the note). Using motf I get a syntax error.
> 
> The advantage of the implementation is that it really makes it easy to 
> make other scales. Most litterature on tempered scales I've read starts 
> with the equal tempered scale and says how many cent certain tones 
> deviate from the equal tempered scale. Thus, with this basis it's rather 
> simple to make a meantone, werkmeister, valotti, kirnberger and other 
> scales. That's where I'm heading next. (just need to dig up the books 
> again and get an exam passed) :-)
> 
> Would you check if your solution described below works and possibly send 
> me a Pd file with it? I'd really like to try it out. Performance-wise 
> I'm not very happy with the Python implementation as I find it too slow 
> for real-time use and need to make it less responsive by use of a metro 
> or similar for my hardware, so I'm considering rewriting it in C.
> 
> Cheers
> 
>     Nik
> 
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