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{{Mbox|type=notice|text=Please use this page's [[User_talk:Mousemambo/Scala_tuning_system|Discussion page]] for comments and suggestions. Or you can join the discussion in the #wiki channel of the Xenharmonic Alliance's [https://discord.com/invite/FSF5JFT 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.}}

{{Mbox|type=notice|text=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 "[[User:Mousemambo/Tuning_methods|Tuning methods]]," and "[[User:Mousemambo/Document_draft|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. The alternative "Scala tuning files system" or "Scala tuning files" is unattractive because "Scala tuning file" is used as a synonym for the more correct term "Scala scale file."}}

[''I am '''strongly''' leaning toward renaming this article "SCALA TUNING FILE SYSTEM" and referring in general to "tuning file systems" to reduce the ambiguity with the term "tuning system" that refers to something related but significantly different. The "12edo tuning system" and "Scala tuning system" don't belong to the same category of things.'']

The Scala tuning system is a standard specification for establishing a [[Periodic scale|periodic]] [[tuning system]] or music [[scale]], which can be interpreted by [[List of music software#Software instruments|software]] and [[Instruments#Electronic instruments|electronic musical instruments]] that use [[MIDI]] data. Musical instruments that support this standard allow flexible tuning beyond [[12edo|12-EDO]]. Complete support for the standard requires using two files, a scale file and a keyboard mapping file. Some instruments support only the Scala scale file, and therefore require manually setting the tuning base or [[tonic]] and a [[Reference tone|tuning reference]] [[note]] and its [[pitch]] [[frequency]].

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 {{Mbox|type=notice|text=Please use this page's [[User_talk:Mousemambo/Scala_tuning_system|Discussion page]] for comments and suggestions. Or you can join the discussion in the #wiki channel of the Xenharmonic Alliance's [https://discord.com/invite/FSF5JFT 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.}}
 {{Mbox|type=notice|text=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 "[[User:Mousemambo/Tuning_methods|Tuning methods]]," and "[[User:Mousemambo/Document_draft|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. The alternative "Scala tuning files system" or "Scala tuning files" is unattractive because "Scala tuning file" is used as a synonym for the more correct term "Scala scale file."}}
+[''I am '''strongly''' leaning toward renaming this article "SCALA TUNING FILE SYSTEM" and referring in general to "tuning file systems" to reduce the ambiguity with the term "tuning system" that refers to something related but significantly different. The "12edo tuning system" and "Scala tuning system" don't belong to the same category of things.'']
 The Scala tuning system is a standard specification for establishing a [[Periodic scale|periodic]] [[tuning system]] or music [[scale]], which can be interpreted by [[List of music software#Software instruments|software]] and [[Instruments#Electronic instruments|electronic musical instruments]] that use [[MIDI]] data. Musical instruments that support this standard allow flexible tuning beyond [[12edo|12-EDO]]. Complete support for the standard requires using two files, a scale file and a keyboard mapping file. Some instruments support only the Scala scale file, and therefore require manually setting the tuning base or [[tonic]] and a [[Reference tone|tuning reference]] [[note]] and its [[pitch]] [[frequency]].