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[[User:Mousemambo|Mousemambo]]'s workbench for ideas and projects. Questions? Please use his [[User talk:Mousemambo|Talk page]] or contact him through XenHarmonic Alliance's [[Links#Discord server|Discord server]] #wiki channel. | [[User:Mousemambo|Mousemambo]]'s workbench for ideas and projects. Questions? Please use his [[User talk:Mousemambo|Talk page]] or contact him through XenHarmonic Alliance's [[Links#Discord server|Discord server]] #wiki channel. | ||
==Project | ==Project ideas== | ||
*[[User:Mousemambo/Tuning file]]. Add this new page. What are tuning files, what do they do, what are some formats? This will expand on the brief descriptions elsewhere, and link to the Anamark v2 page appropriately. Alternatively, create a [[User:Mousemambo/Tuning methods]] page with Tuning Files as one section, within which there might be some complete descriptions and others could have brief ones but links to a separate page with a more complete description. This might be a more future-proof approach. I need to think a little more before beginning. | *[[User:Mousemambo/Tuning file]]. Add this new page. What are tuning files, what do they do, what are some formats? This will expand on the brief descriptions elsewhere, and link to the Anamark v2 page appropriately. Alternatively, create a [[User:Mousemambo/Tuning methods]] page with Tuning Files as one section, within which there might be some complete descriptions and others could have brief ones but links to a separate page with a more complete description. This might be a more future-proof approach. I need to think a little more before beginning. See below "Outline for a Tuning Methods Page" section for a sketch of what this might look like. | ||
*Add "See: Tuning file" (or See: Tuning methods) as appropriate in the articles that currently reference them. | *Add "See: Tuning file" (or See: Tuning methods) as appropriate in the articles that currently reference them. | ||
*[[User:Mousemambo/Indian music]]. Replace the existing article "[[Indian]]" which, by the way, has a strange and dismaying page title (see below). Provide some history and current usage of tuning selections in the various branches of Indian music, and links to outside information. | *[[User:Mousemambo/Indian music]]. Replace the existing article "[[Indian]]" which, by the way, has a strange and dismaying page title (see below). Provide some history and current usage of tuning selections in the various branches of Indian music, and links to outside information. | ||
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*Category: Tuning mechanisms. Probably not that category name, but something that would encompass all articles about how electronic instruments are made to adhere to alternative (non-12-EDO) tunings. "Practical tuning" or "Tuning practices" or Tuning methods" or "Tuning technique" (currently in use but deprecated with redirect) or "Tuning practice" perhaps? I note that the current [[:Category:Tuning|Category:Tuning]] is about the theoretical side and not at all the practical side. However, it might instead be best to stick everything in there, practical and theoretical, although that's not the direction I currently lean toward. | *Category: Tuning mechanisms. Probably not that category name, but something that would encompass all articles about how electronic instruments are made to adhere to alternative (non-12-EDO) tunings. "Practical tuning" or "Tuning practices" or Tuning methods" or "Tuning technique" (currently in use but deprecated with redirect) or "Tuning practice" perhaps? I note that the current [[:Category:Tuning|Category:Tuning]] is about the theoretical side and not at all the practical side. However, it might instead be best to stick everything in there, practical and theoretical, although that's not the direction I currently lean toward. | ||
==Practical Tuning for Beginners | ==Practical Tuning for Beginners pages== | ||
Below is a list of existing pages (still expanding by search, as of August 2023) relevant to beginners who want to set their electronic instruments to other than 12-EDO tuning. Synth/sampler manuals frequently don't provide enough background information, instead assuming you already know something about tuning files. | Below is a list of existing pages (still expanding by search, as of August 2023) relevant to beginners who want to set their electronic instruments to other than 12-EDO tuning. Synth/sampler manuals frequently don't provide enough background information, instead assuming you already know something about tuning files. | ||
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*[[DAWs]]. The section "[[DAWs#Approaches%20to%20Microtonal%20Composition%20in%20a%20DAW|Approaches to Microtonal Composition in a DAW]]" has some good info about practical tuning issues. | *[[DAWs]]. The section "[[DAWs#Approaches%20to%20Microtonal%20Composition%20in%20a%20DAW|Approaches to Microtonal Composition in a DAW]]" has some good info about practical tuning issues. | ||
==Indian | == Outline for a Tuning Methods page == | ||
Last updated 2023-Aug-02 | |||
* Intro | |||
** Why? We need to tell electronic and software musical instruments what tuning system to use when they receive MIDI data) | |||
** How? A combination of a tuning file and sometimes a mechanism to tell the instrument to use that tuning file (and sometimes how to use it). | |||
* Tuning files | |||
** Intro (What are tuning files?) | |||
** Anamark (.TUN) tuning files | |||
** Scala (.SCL/.KBM) tuning | |||
*** Scala tuning files (.SCL) | |||
*** Scala keyboard mapping files (.KBM) | |||
* Tuning plugins | |||
** Intro (What are tuning plugins?) | |||
** MTS-ESP tuning | |||
** MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) tuning | |||
** Pitch bend-based tuning | |||
* Other tuning methods | |||
** MIDI Tuning Specification (MTS) | |||
* Depreciated tuning methods | |||
** RPN tuning | |||
==Indian music== | |||
Existing pages addressing microtonality in Indian music: | Existing pages addressing microtonality in Indian music: | ||
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*... to be further developed | *... to be further developed | ||
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