Scala files

Hi, Don.

Here's the set of Scala files:

http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/scales.zip

Be sure to look at the text file that comes with the download. Otherwise, some of the names may be meaningless. The text file will help you to find the many variations of a temperament, too. The files are just listed by name, so variations in Meantone, for example, don't appear together, but may be separated by several pages, and listed far apart in the file folder.

Here's the website for Scala:

http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/

To load a Scala file into PianoTeq, click on the icon beside Diapason, click to the left on the word Default, and then click on Load tuning from file. There's currently no way to put a file on the default list. What I do is rename the files I use the most often, putting numbers at the start of the name, so they appear at the top of the list when I open the folder for Scala files using the method just described.

But be aware that the vast majority of Scala files are created by establishing the temperament\bearing, and just repeating the same tuning in the octaves above and below. You'll often want to go in and tune those other octaves, after you determine what the temperament range is. To do that, you have to load the file into Scala itself. (The automatic stretching that's on by default in PianoTeq often makes retuning unnecessary, but experiment.)

Do a search on this forum for Scala, too. There are several threads.

Cheers.

Hi Don,

We have just released a 3.6.4 version that will allow you to drag'n drop scala files.