[sdiy] The ideal quantizer, was: Music

[Ingo Debus]

Am 28.02.2011 um 20:52 schrieb David G. Dixon:

>>>> The goal is, finding nice scales without having to know a lot about
>>>> music theory. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Yeah: learn the theory!  As I said, there aren't really that many
>>> truly
>>> useful scales (in Western music, anyway), and really understanding
>>> how to
>>> use them is an extremely rewarding thing.
>>
>> Does everyone using a synthesizer VCF have to know everything about
>> filter theory? ;-)
>
> Well, using a filter ultimately involves twiddling a knob or two,  
> so it's
> not really a fair comparison!  ;^)

That's exactly what I want: something with a few knobs that lets me  
find nice scales.

Most four-pole low pass filters have only two knobs, one for cutoff  
frequency and one for gain. That's a simplification (4th order low  
pass is described by four parameters), but obviously a very useful  
one. I believe a filter with four knobs, one for each transfer  
function denominator coefficient, would be less useful.

BTW, someone pointed me off-list at this one:
<http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/>
Haven't downloaded it yet, but looks promising.

Ingo