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Hi Stephane,

I looked at tonality-map as you suggested. It is a powerful function, but it is not clear that it matches my requirement. I need to generate a set of pitches within a given scale. And if I change the scale, the pitches must change too. This was straightforward in SCOM. 

Are there any examples where something like this is done in opusmodus (sorry, I can't follow French)? Another related question: how do I access the different built in scales? A search for "tonality" gives a result that has the names of all tonalities, but I do not know how to use them.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Rangarajan

 

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Hi Rangarajan,

you can apply a tonality to some pitches like this:

(setf my-pitches '(c4 d4 e4 f4 a4 g4 e5 d5 c5 b5 g5))
(setf my-pitches-mapped (tonality-map '(acoustic-scale) my-pitches))

;; apply more than one tonality on several lists of pitches
(setf my-pitches2 (gen-repeat 8 '((c4 d4 f4 e4 a4 d5 c5 g5) (f5 e5 c5 a4 g4 d4 e4 c4))))

;; create a serie of tonality changes
(setf my-scales-path (tonality-series '(acoustic-scale
                                        lydian
                                        dorian
                                        messiaen-mode3
                                       )
                                      :root '(d4 f4 e4 a4)))

(setf my-pitch-mapped2 (tonality-map my-scales-path my-pitches2))

;; it works also directly with OMN
(setf some-omn-stuff (make-omn
                      :pitch (integer-to-pitch (rnd-number 8 0 16))
                      :length (gen-tuplet 1 1 '? '? 'w '(3 7 5 6 4 11))
                      :velocity '((pp) (f) (mf) (mp))
                      :articulation '((stacc) (nil) (marc) (nil))
                      ))

(setf omn-stuff-remapped (tonality-map my-scales-path some-omn-stuff))

;; it is just a very small example
;; but the tonality-map and tonality-series functions
;; have lot of more possibility, really. It is a whole universe of possibility.
;; You can have a look to the docs of both of this functions.

 

Cheers

Stéphane

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Hi Stephane,

Thanks very much for the detailed example. I am looking for functionality as follows:

(tonality-map '(major :root c4) '(0 1 2 3))
=> (c4 d4 e4 f4)

(tonality-map '(natural-minor :root c4) '(0 1 2 3))
=> (c4 d4 eb4 f4)

 

At present TONALITY-MAP works only with absolute pitches (as I understand). I think it would be useful to apply it on integer sequence as I have outlined. Is there a way to do the above at present?

Regards,

Rangarajan

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