Re: [fluid-dev] Perfect, as opposed to Tempered tuning

[R.L. Horn]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, Aere Greenway wrote:

> But given how much I liked the sound of near-perfect tuning, I wonder 
> about the possibility of perfect (rather than tempered) tuning for each 
> key-signature, and changing the tuning accordingly when changing 
> key-signatures.

AFAIK, you've been able to do that from within MIDI files using MTS since 
version 1.1.0.

If possible, that's the best way to deal with the issue.  It's 
more-or-less portable, there's no agreement on what would constitute 
"perfect" tuning anyway, and, besides, key changes effectively happen all 
the time without corresponding changes in signature.

What's more, MTS and pitch-bend are the only mechanisms provided by MIDI 
for dealing with unpredictable things like commas and harmonic sevenths.

Of course, you can set up alternate *temperaments* with configuration 
files.  I usually use Young's tuning since I have to deal with open thirds 
quite a bit.