[Sugar-devel] Outreachy - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

[Devin Ulibarri]

On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 00:36 +0530, Sachithra Dangalla wrote:
> I went through some of the temperaments available in order to get an
> idea about the types of temperaments that can be added to Music
> Blocks. According to [1] the temperaments that could be added are: 
>      1. Equal temperament(default)
>      2. Just intonation
>      3. Pythagorean tuning
>      4. Meantone temperament
>      5. Well temperament
> I would like to hear your suggestions to this list, whether to add
> more or about the implementation order. 
> 
We want functionality that allows the user to define temperament.

What you list would be good presets, but more important that presets is
the functionality.
> 
> When implementing the temperaments, will they be added as blocks? Or
> will it be a part of the settings? 

Please see my mockups on this thread:
https://github.com/walterbender/musicblocks/issues/485

The basic idea with my design is that the user can specify the pitch (in
Hz) for a particular nominal set (e.g. 440 = A4, La4). The entire
collection of pitches are called when its block is present in the user's
Music Block code (pretty much the way our action blocks work right
now--an action block calls the action clamp).

This is the basic idea/concept and goal. I am up for different possible
implementations per the details.