User:Mousemambo/Scala tuning system

Please use this page's Discussion page for comments and suggestions. Or you can join the discussion in the #wiki channel of the Xenharmonic Alliance's Discord server. This developing page is initially just an outline, but will be expanded into a proper page. Please note that I used square brackets to indicate personal notes to myself for article development, but these will all be removed in the final document.

This page is being explored as a possible new main space article. Much of its content might best be split out into a "Scala scale file" page and a "Scala keyboard mapping file" page, but part of the reason to explore this page is to figure that out. This page is part of a set of pages intended to work together, including "Tuning methods," and "Guide to Tuning a Software Synth in a DAW." The proposed article title "Scala tuning system" is not entirely ideal because "tuning system" is also used to mean a musical tuning, but this seems the best compromise to me. Alt. "Scala tuning files system" b/c "Scala tuning file" is used as a synonym for the more correct "Scala scale file."

Brief article summary goes here....

Temporary Outline

1. Overview
2. Scala scale file
   1. What the scale file does
   2. Alternative methods for specifying a tuning
   3. Scala scale file format
3. Scala keyboard mapping file
   1. What the keyboard mapping file does
      1. Set the base note of the scale file [which may also be the music's tonic]
      2. Set the tuning center [aka diapason or reference pitch]
      3. Map pitches to the keyboard [or other controller]
   2. Just intonation tunings and their tonic pitch
   3. Linear keyboard mapping vs. alternatives
   4. Tunings with fewer or more than 12 pitches per octave or equave
   5. Uncommon keyboard formats
   6. Scala keyboard mapping file format
4. Example scenarios
5. Software for creating Scala tuning system files
6. Sources for Scala tuning system files
7. See also
8. External links

Overview

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Scala scale file

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Scala keyboard mapping file

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Example scenarios

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Software for creating Scala tuning system files

• Scala
• Scale Workshop (and User Guide)

Sources for Scala tuning system files

• Mizzan Microtonal Piano scale archive
• Huygens-Fokker Foundation scale archive
• Tuning Files collection from Sevish

See also

• Anamark tuning file format
• Tuning methods

External links

• Scala
• Scala scale file format. Huygens-Fokker Foundation. The official file format specification.
• A simple and detailed documentation of Scala Tuning Format. Mizzan Microtonal Piano.
• Scala (software). Wikipedia.
• Scala keyboard mapping file (.KBM) format specification. Huygens-Fokker Foundation.