gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) (01/17/85)
Okay, the DX sounds lovely, but will it do BALLOON ANIMALS????
Seriously, I'm trying to figure out in a quick and painless manner
whether or not the current MIDI protocalls will allow me to "retune"
the keyboard to allow for stuff like Pythagorean, Just, Mean, etc. intonations
(or, more to the point, Non-Western (Indonesian and Japanese) scales?
From looking at the 1.0 stuff, they seem to provide a wealth of distance
between the standard key pitches (0-127), but can I exploit this for that
(notably since I am not the most impressive hacker in the known universe,
to put it *very* graciously) purpose?
My other option would be to get the PROM data format for the Yamaha keyboard
octave scaling and key pitch stuff (unless they use top-octave dividers....)
and then blow my own. This involves a note to the Gakki in Japan, and my
Altaic languages are not very good. If there's a way around this, I'd
like to try it.
Gregory Taylor
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