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==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. See below "Outline for a Tuning Methods Page" section for a sketch of what this might look like.

*[[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 "[[User:Mousemambo/Workbench#Outline for a Tuning Methods page|Outline for a Tuning Methods Page]]" section for a sketch of what this might look like. I will note that there are excellent existing resources, like the [[Making Microtonal Music is Easier Than You’d Think]] page archived here from its original source. The problem with these is that they go out of date easily. Therefore, I am proposing a wiki solution that will be available for community maintenance including significant updates as appropriate.

*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.

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*[[Scala]]. Has a brief section on tuning files, which needs "See: Tuning files" added.

*[[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.

Also, there are some not (yet) totally outdated pages out beyond the Xenharmonic wiki that are worth learning from:

* [https://producelikeapro.com/blog/getting-started-making-microtonal-music/ Making Microtonal Music is Easier Than You’d Think.].. also archived here as [[Making Microtonal Music is Easier Than You’d Think]]

* ... more to be added

== Outline for a Tuning Methods page ==

Last updated 2023-Aug-02

Last updated 2023-Aug-02. Note that although much of the info will be in the Tuning Methods page itself, some other info might best be split out into its own page (e.g. there is already an [[Anamark tuning file format]] page). Also, any how-to [[:Category:Guides]] pages would be separate, and links could be provided to existing outside how-to instructions that have text or video format (urgh...link maintenance sucks).

* Intro

** Why? We need to tell electronic and software musical instruments what tuning system to use when they receive MIDI data)

** Why? We need to tell electronic and software musical instruments what tuning system to use when they receive controller input or 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).

** How? Direct tuning info, or a tuning file sometimes with a mechanism to tell the instrument to use that tuning (and sometimes also how to use it).

* Direct tuning information (because some instruments have their own input page for tuning information). I don't like the expression "direct tuning" but can't think of something better right now.

** Kontakt "microtuning" built-in script. Because Kontakt is so important, this needs to be stated explicitly, and a how-to link provided.

** Other instruments (e.g. <list of instruments>)

* Tuning files

** Intro (What are tuning files?)

** Intro. What are tuning files?

** Anamark (.TUN) tuning files

** Kontakt scripts

** Scala (.SCL/.KBM) tuning

*** Scala tuning files (.SCL)

*** Scala keyboard mapping files (.KBM)

* ~~Tuning~~ plugins

* Retuners and tuning plugins

** Intro (What are tuning plugins?)

** Intro. What are retuners and tuning plugins? They take a tuning file as input (or direct tuning info), and appropriately modify the data going to an instrument.

** MTS-ESP tuning

** Tuning plugins (e.g. VST/AU inserted into a DAW or VST-host plugin chain ahead of a software or hardware-interface instrument)

** MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) tuning

*** MTS-ESP tuning

** Pitch bend-based tuning

*** MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) tuning

*** Pitch bend-based tuning

** Retuners (software running independently from a DAW or plugin host, between a controller and software or hardware instrument)

*** alt-tuner

* Other tuning methods

** MIDI Tuning Specification (MTS)

* ~~Depreciated~~ tuning methods

** Other SysEx-based tuning methods?

* Deprecated and obsolete tuning methods

** RPN tuning

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 ==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. See below "Outline for a Tuning Methods Page" section for a sketch of what this might look like.
+*[[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 "[[User:Mousemambo/Workbench#Outline for a Tuning Methods page|Outline for a Tuning Methods Page]]" section for a sketch of what this might look like. I will note that there are excellent existing resources, like the [[Making Microtonal Music is Easier Than You’d Think]] page archived here from its original source. The problem with these is that they go out of date easily. Therefore, I am proposing a wiki solution that will be available for community maintenance including significant updates as appropriate.
 *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.
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 *[[Scala]]. Has a brief section on tuning files, which needs "See: Tuning files" added.
 *[[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.
+Also, there are some not (yet) totally outdated pages out beyond the Xenharmonic wiki that are worth learning from:
+* [https://producelikeapro.com/blog/getting-started-making-microtonal-music/ Making Microtonal Music is Easier Than You’d Think.].. also archived here as [[Making Microtonal Music is Easier Than You’d Think]]
+* ... more to be added
 == Outline for a Tuning Methods page ==
-Last updated 2023-Aug-02
+Last updated 2023-Aug-02. Note that although much of the info will be in the Tuning Methods page itself, some other info might best be split out into its own page (e.g. there is already an [[Anamark tuning file format]] page). Also, any how-to [[:Category:Guides]] pages would be separate, and links could be provided to existing outside how-to instructions that have text or video format (urgh...link maintenance sucks).
 * Intro
-** Why? We need to tell electronic and software musical instruments what tuning system to use when they receive MIDI data)
+** Why? We need to tell electronic and software musical instruments what tuning system to use when they receive controller input or 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).
+** How? Direct tuning info, or a tuning file sometimes with a mechanism to tell the instrument to use that tuning (and sometimes also how to use it).
+* Direct tuning information (because some instruments have their own input page for tuning information). I don't like the expression "direct tuning" but can't think of something better right now.
+** Kontakt "microtuning" built-in script. Because Kontakt is so important, this needs to be stated explicitly, and a how-to link provided.
+** Other instruments (e.g. <list of instruments>)
 * Tuning files
-** Intro (What are tuning files?)
+** Intro. What are tuning files?
 ** Anamark (.TUN) tuning files
+** Kontakt scripts
 ** Scala (.SCL/.KBM) tuning
 *** Scala tuning files (.SCL)
 *** Scala keyboard mapping files (.KBM)
-* Tuning plugins
+* Retuners and tuning plugins
-** Intro (What are tuning plugins?)
+** Intro. What are retuners and tuning plugins? They take a tuning file as input (or direct tuning info), and appropriately modify the data going to an instrument.
-** MTS-ESP tuning
+** Tuning plugins (e.g. VST/AU inserted into a DAW or VST-host plugin chain ahead of a software or hardware-interface instrument)
-** MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) tuning
+*** MTS-ESP tuning
-** Pitch bend-based tuning
+*** MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) tuning
+*** Pitch bend-based tuning
+** Retuners (software running independently from a DAW or plugin host, between a controller and software or hardware instrument)
+*** alt-tuner
 * Other tuning methods
 ** MIDI Tuning Specification (MTS)
-* Depreciated tuning methods
+** Other SysEx-based tuning methods?
+* Deprecated and obsolete tuning methods
 ** RPN tuning