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'''Scala''' is a freeware [[software]] application with versions supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It allows users to create and archive musical [[scale]]s, analyze and transform them with built-in theoretical tools, play them with an on-screen keyboard or from an external MIDI keyboard, and export them to hardware and software synthesizers. | '''Scala''' is a freeware [[software]] application with versions supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It allows users to create and archive musical [[scale]]s, analyze and transform them with built-in theoretical tools, play them with an on-screen keyboard or from an external MIDI keyboard, and export them to hardware and software synthesizers. | ||
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Scala can open, transform, and save standard MIDI files. It can also export MIDI tuning tables in .tun format. It provides a native, human-readable sequencing language (.seq). But it is best known for its use of human-readable text files to store musical scales. | Scala can open, transform, and save standard MIDI files. It can also export MIDI tuning tables in .tun format. It provides a native, human-readable sequencing language (.seq). But it is best known for its use of human-readable text files to store musical scales. | ||
The [ | The [https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/scl_format.html Scala scale file format] has become a standard for representing microtonal scales in a way that can be used by other software. The Scala site lists over thirty applications that support the format, including several major commercial packages like Apple Logic 7, Celemony Melodyne 3, and Cakewalk Rapture<sup>[[#cite_note-1|[1]]]</sup> and Z3TA+<sup>[[#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup>. Scala's developer also makes freely available an archive of over 3,500 Scala scale files, containing many musical scales of historical, cultural, and theoretical interest. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
*[ | * [https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ Official website] | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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