Douglas Blumeyer's RTT How-To: Difference between revisions

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[[File:Why not just srhink every block.png|thumb|left|600px|'''Figure 1e.''' Visualization of pointlessness of tuning all primes sharp (or flat, as you could imagine)]]

If you think about it, you would never want to tune ~~them~~ all the primes sharp at the same time, or all of them flat; if you care about this particular proportion of their tunings, why wouldn’t you shift them all in the same direction, toward accuracy, while maintaining that proportion? ''(see Figure 1e)''

If you think about it, you would never want to tune all the primes sharp at the same time, or all of them flat; if you care about this particular proportion of their tunings, why wouldn’t you shift them all in the same direction, toward accuracy, while maintaining that proportion? ''(see Figure 1e)''

This matter of choosing the exact generator for a map is called '''tuning''', and if you’ll believe it, we won’t actually talk about that in detail again until much later. Tempering — the second ‘T’ in “RTT” — is the discipline concerned with choosing an interesting map, and tuning can remain largely independent from it. The temperament is only concerned with the fact that — no matter what exact size you ultimately make the generator — it is the case e.g. that 12 of them make a 2, 19 of them make a 3, and 28 of them make a 5. So, for now, whenever we show a value for g, assume we’ve given a computer a formula for optimizing the tuning to approximate all three primes equally well. As for us humans, let’s stay focused on tempering.

=== a multitude of maps ===

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 [[File:Why not just srhink every block.png|thumb|left|600px|'''Figure 1e.''' Visualization of pointlessness of tuning all primes sharp (or flat, as you could imagine)]]
-If you think about it, you would never want to tune them all the primes sharp at the same time, or all of them flat; if you care about this particular proportion of their tunings, why wouldn’t you shift them all in the same direction, toward accuracy, while maintaining that proportion? ''(see Figure 1e)''
+If you think about it, you would never want to tune all the primes sharp at the same time, or all of them flat; if you care about this particular proportion of their tunings, why wouldn’t you shift them all in the same direction, toward accuracy, while maintaining that proportion? ''(see Figure 1e)''
 This matter of choosing the exact generator for a map is called '''tuning''', and if you’ll believe it, we won’t actually talk about that in detail again until much later. Tempering — the second ‘T’ in “RTT” — is the discipline concerned with choosing an interesting map, and tuning can remain largely independent from it. The temperament is only concerned with the fact that — no matter what exact size you ultimately make the generator — it is the case e.g. that 12 of them make a 2, 19 of them make a 3, and 28 of them make a 5. So, for now, whenever we show a value for g, assume we’ve given a computer a formula for optimizing the tuning to approximate all three primes equally well. As for us humans, let’s stay focused on tempering.
 === a multitude of maps ===