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9075
... Taking this to its logical extreme, wouldn't we abandon badness alltogether? -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Feb 1, 2004
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9076
... Wow dude. What sort of DES are these? Not the smallest apparently. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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9077
... So how are these generators being chosen? Hermite? I confess I don't know how to 'refactor' a generator basis. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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9078
Beautiful! I take it the green lines are proper scales? -C....
Carl Lumma
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9079
... I played a lot with the 29 note scale, and it worked fine. It's nice to have some small intervals to throw in when you want them. It's a serious...
Graham Breed
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Feb 1, 2004
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9080
... Did you ever track down what Partch said? Harmonic entropy can obviously be used to prove whatever you like. It also shows that the troughs get narrower...
Graham Breed
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Feb 1, 2004
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9081
... norm, ... That's great, Paul. So what's the scaling?...
Gene Ward Smith
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9082
... individual, ... something ... Recall that any goofy, ad-hoc weirdness may need to be both explained and justified....
Gene Ward Smith
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9083
... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning_files/files/Erlich/sevenlimit.zip ... of "valentine", ... Sounds OK; let's hope it doesn't choke Dave....
Gene Ward Smith
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Feb 1, 2004
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9084
... So why is 29 notes of schismic good, and 27 notes of ennealimmal bad? I think both temperaments are so strong they should be included. Ennealimmal still...
Gene Ward Smith
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Feb 1, 2004
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9085
... Not me, for the most part. I think the non-keyboard composer is simply being ignored in these discussions, and I think I'll stand up for him. ... and I ......
Gene Ward Smith
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Feb 1, 2004
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9086
... 29 notes of schismic happens to fit a 7+5 keyboard well. Ennealimmal may well work, although it is more complex. Shouldn't it be 36 notes for the first...
Graham Breed
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Feb 1, 2004
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9087
... How *are* you constructing scales, and what does it have to do with keyboards? -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Feb 1, 2004
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9088
... Observation One: The extent and intensity of the influence of a magnet is in inverse proportion to its ratio to 1. "To be taken in conjunction with the...
Carl Lumma
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Feb 1, 2004
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9089
... Hmm, that's fairly impenetrable. But it does say "extend" and "inverse proportion". ... So it's only about resolution? ... Oh no, the simple intervals...
Graham Breed
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Feb 2, 2004
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9090
... Often I'm not constructing them because I'm not using them....
Gene Ward Smith
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Feb 2, 2004
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9091
... complexity ... No, it would just become 'rectangular', as Dave noted....
Paul Erlich
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Feb 2, 2004
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9092
... No, just assume octave repetition, find the period (easy) and then the unique generator that is between 0 and 1/2 period. ... What do you have in mind?...
Paul Erlich
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Feb 2, 2004
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9093
... Guess again (it's easy)!...
Paul Erlich
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Feb 2, 2004
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9094
... has ... accurately, ... Can't find my copy of Genesis! ... It ... limit, so ... irrelevant. Yes, this is what Partch and the mathematics that underlies...
Paul Erlich
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Feb 2, 2004
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9095
... going ... (I'm ... I'm using your formula from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/8806 but instead of "max", I'm using "sum" . . ....
Paul Erlich
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9096
... than ... explained ... What did you have in mind?...
Paul Erlich
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9097
... up ... And the new-keyboard composer! ... a ... 7, ... Really? Can you elaborate? Do you still get an infinite number of images of each ratio, times 9/3^2,...
Paul Erlich
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9098
... has ... accurately, ... I've ... Thanks, Carl. ... more ... saying ... It's a lot greater for the sinple ones. ... Where did I claim that?...
Paul Erlich
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9099
... it. At ... beyond ... Examples? ... ?...
Paul Erlich
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9100
... You mean log(n/d)/log(n*d) where n:d is the comma that vanishes. I prefer these scalings complexity = lg2(n*d) error = comma_size_in_cents / complexity =...
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9101
... Um, it says "extent"... :) ... The observations are given in a discussion of chord progressions. Does this mean you don't have a copy of _Genesis_? Wait,...
Carl Lumma
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Feb 2, 2004
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9102
... Care to explain how you can compose without the existence of scales? -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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9103
... I didn't follow that. Maybe you could explain how it explains how someone who sees no relation between error and complexity could possibly be interested...
Carl Lumma
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Feb 2, 2004
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9104
... Isn't it possible to find alternate generator pairs that give the same temperament when carried out to infinity? -Carl...
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