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If you are looking for something fun to read that still covers the big ideas, there is also The Little Schemer (and a number of related books). Note that this book again uses Scheme for clarity, but the fundamental ideas are the same in Common Lisp. Some incomplete preview: https://books.google.com/books?id=xyO-KLexVnMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+little+schemer&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8ysjBndrvAhXU_7sIHXmKBmkQ6AEwA3oECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=the little schemer&f=false Quote: What you need to know to read this book.The reader must be comfor

SICP is a really excellent book! (Even though meanwhile it is not used for teaching at MIT anymore.) What I alluded to above (higher-order functions) is already covered relatively early in the book in section 1.3 (link). This book provides a really solid foundation for programming. If you just study the first two chapters that might already be enough for your purposes (well organising code for algorithmic composition). (Fun fact: I read this book during our honey moon ~20 years ago.) Note that the book uses the (smaller & more clean) Lisp dialect Scheme, instead of Common Lisp

I understand that builtin functions of Opusmodus are not working on this level of abstraction / expressive power, as it would be a rather steep learning curve for users, but using and defining functions at this flexibility level reduces the length of your code substantially, which then helps to solve bigger problems by very small teams or individuals. I try to have my own libraries work at this kind of level.

> I would like to SORT an (single-event)-list by pitch... Apologies for a late response. Anyway, such functionality is actually built into Common Lisp. Hardly any coding required. Just specify a key attribute to the builtin sort function to tell it what data to look at for the sorting -- and specify a sort function. (setf events '((e e4 mf) (e a4 mf) (e d5 mf) (e g5 mf) (e b5 mf) (e d6 mf) (e b4 mf 2c) (e e5 mf 2c) (e a5 mf 2c) (e d6 mf 2c) (e fs6 mf 2c) (e a6 mf 2c) (e e5 mf) (e a5 mf) (e d6 mf) (e g6 mf) (e b6 mf)

I am aiming for some state-of-the-art microtonal/xenharmonic support for Opusmodus. Here is a first preview. It has been easier than expected to do what I planned when using some unifying ideas proposed by tuning math guys around 20 years ago. The core idea is that just intonation (JI), arbitrary equal temperaments (subdividing the octave or other intervals) and very many other tunings (https://en.xen.wiki/w/Tour_of_Regular_Temperaments ) can all be expressed as regular temperaments. You can find an informal discussion of regular temperaments, its context and motivation -- how it exten

> The best way to work with microtonality is to get a MTS compatible instrument Yes, I understand. I already have Pianoteq, and might get Vienna Instruments just for this, but still the options (i.e. available instruments) would be limited. (By contrast, the microtonal support for Dorico currently only works for VST3 instruments supporting the VST tuning of note expressions. Also very restricted.) Anyway, I would like to use microtonal tuning for electronic music at some stage, not just some mockups for acoustic compositions. In that area, there are simply very many more plugins

Here is a link to a related discussion. For supporting chords I would need something similar to what André suggests here, by automatically splitting polyphonic parts into multiple monophonic parts, with some custom tuning for each.

Of course, it would be good to have also playback for microtonal pitches with high precision. > In other systems this will end up in a mess: 100 cents equal 100 channels No, you need only as many channels per instrument as there are tones sounding simultaneously. With the MIDI MPE standard the tuning of tones is simply changed on the fly with pitchbend messages. For example, my Tonal Plexus has 205 pitches/keys per octave in its default tuning and each of these pitches requires a custom tuning, but I can play it with just 3 MIDI channels if I play only 3 notes

Thanks for the quick response. > Cent annotations display only. I thought when we discussed microtonality at the Opusmodus Convention, and Achim Bornhoeft was talking about the importance of having the flexibility of the cent annotations, you mentioned that this is already implemented (again), and just lacked documentation. Did I perhaps misunderstand, and microtonal playback with cent resolution was never implemented so far? Thanks!

> The cents attribute is an additional display of the remain cents values and is not a part of the audition. Could proper audition for cent values be implemented? Pretty please? If polyphonic microtonal playback with 1/8 note resolution is already implemented, what would be missing to get the same support for arbitrary cent values? For me, flexible tuning support is the one missing Opusmodus feature I would be willing to pay extra for, seriously. > To make cents audition we would end up with 100 possible ports - if MTS is not supported - for a

Briefly sharing some news: I started to work on greatly improving Opusmodus' support for microtonal/xenharmonic music. I am aiming for supporting arbitrary equal temperaments (both equal divisions of the octave and other intervals), just intonation (JI) for arbitrary prime limits, and arbitrary regular temperaments (https://en.xen.wiki/w/Tour_of_Regular_Temperaments ). I aim to have this whole tuning universe controlled by a single uniform notation embedded in OMN. Still, I try to keep things relatively clear and simple by introducing only a single actual new accidental symbol, and that symbol

I have no luck with the cent annotations in the score (see example below, the cent annotations are seemingly ignored in the playback, but the other microtonal accidentals are not). Am I perhaps missing something? Also, what would be truly great would be some way to have cent annotations for individual pitches of chords. For example, the following does work already. '(c4e4-g4) Would be great if we could also use something like the following. '(h c4e4g4bb4 0c+-14c+-0c+-31c) Thanks! Torsten (def-score test-playb

Ah, great. I just noted that this was already documented and I simply missed it. So, thanks for sharing -- very much appreciated! I hope I soon find some time to play with this! Best, Torsten

> artistic-research with a focus on non-octave scales Could you share some more information on what kind of notation schemes exist for these kind of tunings, and what you would like to do in principle -- independent of Opusmodus, e.g., what you are doing with MaxScore so far? Does there perhaps exist any notation scheme that provides principles suitable for a certain or even wide range of such tunings, or do you use custom/independent notations for each such tuning? Officially, microtonality support in the Opusmodus notation OMN is limited to quarter tones (e.g., c4+) and e

> C-c C-l shortcut which loads a lisp file and make its variables available in the REPL Beyond that, you can also (re)-evaluate at any time just individual expressions or definitions (not necessarily a whole file or even a whole program) and that way make your whole development process rather interactive. I use the shortcut for evaluating the last expression (before the point/cursor), C-x C-e, much more often than the one for loading a file. > general Lisp tutorials As a Python developer, this might be helpful for you, even though it is written originally for the o