Hi again,

I'm looking for a way to have pd change tuning/temperament (as in equal temperament, zarlino, kirnberger, meantone etc...) of its midi notes.

On the homepage of a computer program called scala (which I don't want to install if I can avoid it, because it requires Xcode in turn, which is a 2GB installation I'll never need for anything else) pd is listed among the "supported tuning dump formats".

"[Scala] Exports tuning data to a variety of synthesizers with an internal tuning table. You can save tuning data in a MIDI file or send it directly to your instrument or sound card. Supported tuning dump formats include among others:"
... a lot of stuff and pd among them.

(http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/#features)

So, does this mean that maybe somewhere in my pd installation there is a txt file or something which contains a tuning table? Possibly even for non-standard tunings? Because that would save me a lot of work.

And if there isn't, does anybody know of a way to do this apart from writing that tuning table from scratch?

Thanks, your help / attention is much appreciated!

Hello, TLP7:
Maybe you could ask someone with a computer with GNU/Linux to install the software, as it seems to be quite a small amount of MB [0]. Then play around with it so as to export a "PureData tuning file" or whatsoever, so you will be able to see what it "looks like", if it is plain text, binary format, etc.
I wish you success!

Sumidero

[0] http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/downloads.html

TLP7, I am on the same mission. I was not able to easily compile the Scala source for linux, so I installed the windows version in a virtual box. I very much like the idea, but the interface is so cluttered and not really working for me. And, I've been spending all my time learning PD, so I haven't really delt with it yet. I want to learn how to load a tuning table directly into my software synthesizer, as well as how to write a tuning table inside PD to manipulate the [osc~] frequencies based on an index received by [notein] midi data, which doesn't seem too hard!