I’d like to use VCV Rack to make a patch based on the just-intonation scale from La Monte Young’s The Well-Tuned Piano. The scale is odd in that G# is lower than G, and C# is lower than C. Unfortunately, NYSTHI’s Scala-compatible device won’t allow for this; it spells only in ascending order, swapping the G/C and G#/C#. Can anyone confirm that VCV Scalar behaves the same? Or differently? I’d like to know before I buy the premium module. Thanks!
Don’t know the answer, but if there’s a bug or shortcoming in NYSTHI’s module, why not open an issue at his github?
I did buy “VCV scalar” but i don’t know how to use it to be honest.
I guess i load “young-lm_piano.scl” from http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/scales.zip and see what voltages(frequencies) come out when playing a “normal” chromatic scale into it ?
! young-lm_piano.scl
!
LaMonte Young's Well-Tuned Piano
12
!
567/512
9/8
147/128
21/16
1323/1024
189/128
3/2
49/32
7/4
441/256
63/32
2/1
Loaded the file “young-lm_piano.scl” in each SCALAR, left everything else default.
It looks to me like SCALAR does what you want it to ?
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Thanks for running this test; it indeed looks like Scalar handles this like I was hoping it would.
I’ll head over to github and open an issue. Thanks again!
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that SCL file is strictly crescent, like all SCL files and works correctly in ScalaQuantizer too
there is no way that in SCL file you can set a G# lower than a G… a quantizer is a quantizer, if a G# is lower than a G, than the G# becomes a G and the G a G#…
Maybe, only with a mapping function if you use a keyboard, maybe