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Topic: Update to 6.5.4 screws up my Scala...

Hiya - I just upgraded tonight from 6.5.2 to 6.5.4. And now my microtonal scales - but not all of them - make a very different and inferior piano sound once loaded. If I load the Scala file for La Monte Young's Well-tuned piano, all is fine with the Steinway D Classical. But when I load in my Scala file for Erv Wilson's 19-note/Octave Hexany Diamond 3 5 7 9 scale, nothing I can see on the screen changes, but the sound goes from the lovely Steinway Grand to almost a toy piano sound. Can anyone explain what is going on? All I do is go into advanced tuning, select the Scala file, load it, and the sound of the piano is completely different, and quite unpleasant.

Perplexed...

Reply by Philippe Guillaume

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Re: Update to 6.5.4 screws up my Scala...

Welcome to the forum and thank you for your post CheFong.  Could it come from the "Full rebuild" versus "String tension" setting in the advanced tuning window?
I suggest you contact the support and provide your Scala file.

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Re: Update to 6.5.4 screws up my Scala...

Full Rebuild vs String Tension does make a significant difference with some tunings. Here's a useful feature that I discovered recently: if you always want to have 'Full Rebuild' recalled with a particular tuning, you can save your own custom version. For example, load the La Monte Young tuning, select 'Full Rebuild' and then save the Scala file as 'La Monte Young Full Rebuild'.

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Re: Update to 6.5.4 screws up my Scala...

Ah, that was it, thank you! (to both of you who replied). I had no idea about the two options of Full rebuild versus string tension. I found the explanation in the manual and changed it to Full rebuild and all is now good. I guess I never noticed it in the La Monte Young tuning, but this 19 note/Oct Wilson tuning that I just started using is different enough that I could really hear a difference in timbre - and not in a good way. Simply clicking Full rebuild indeed solved the issue.

Cheers!