Feature request: Ability to save, load, and see full keyboard tunings.

(Oh no, another of my damned long posts.)

If you used a found Scala file, I'm not sure that you used one that tuned each note separately. Most set the temperament on one octave, and then just repeat the pattern across the entire keyboard. Pianos aren't tuned that way, which is why PianoTeq has a stretch that's turned on automatically.

What I've recently learned is that, in some tunings, notes in different octaves reference different partials of other octave's notes, and the stretch in the bass and treble varies a lot according to small changes in how the necessary (in modern, "well-tempered" departures from equal temperament) detuning in the center is distributed. That weighting changes the sound a lot, since the varying stretches it encourages in the bass and\or treble excite different sympathetic resonances--a large stretch in the upper registers, for example, creates a brighter sound in the midrange, too (and I seem to hear the strings more?). A large bass stretch seems to deepen the sound of the middle, but the spread in the middle that encourages the bass stretch puts strong pitch changes at the low end--and it's stretched... A balance, with similar stretches in the bass and treble, or proportionate changes, may work or may create too many resonances and muddy the sound, depending on the amount of detuning, the damper efficiency, and where the cat had kittens.

So...letting us see the actual tuning of a temperament\Scala file in the Detune pane would let us evaluate and change these things on the fly- for example, while listening to a midi file. The limitation, obviously, is that it takes some time to manually enter the data for each pitch. But the alternative is just getting a piano tuned exactly the same way in every octave unless we type the data into the Scala file.  And then we can't see the actual pitches, so it's hard to make changes to the temperament or variations in other octaves without memorizing all of the slight pitch changes or having a chart on our desk. So...the ideal could be to import a Scala file, as we now can, be able to see the repeating temperament and all the other pitch adjustments, make changes there, and to SEE pitches rise if we use the stretch slider, and save all changes to a 88 note tuning Scala file, giving us templates for actual tunings of real pianos. (And be able to see the herz to at least a hundredth and pitch changes to at least a hundredth of a cent...)

Dragon--where are you? I need some support here.