NAME

PDL::Audio::Scales - Over 1200 musical scales in PDL format.

SYNOPSIS

 use PDL::Audio::Scales;

 @names = scale_list;

 # returns [1 1 1.5 5 7 8 8.5 1.2]
 $scale = get_scale 'arist_chromrej';

 ($scale, $desc) = get_scale 'arist_chromrej';
 # sets $desc to "Aristoxenos Rejected Chromatic, 6 + 3 + 21 parts 7"

EXAMPLE

The following script will play all the scales (unmodified, it will run for hours) :)

 use PDL::Audio;
 use PDL::Audio::Scales;

 sub osc {
    my ($dur,$freq) = @_;
    (gen_asymmetric_fm $dur, $freq, 0.9, 0.6)*
    (gen_env $dur, [0, 1, 2, 9, 10], [0, 1, 0.6, 0.3, 0]);
 }

 for (scale_list) {
    my ($scale, $desc) = get_scale($_);
    my @mix;
    my $i;
    print "$_ [$desc] $scale\n";
    my $l = $scale->list;
    for (($scale*880)->list) {
       push @mix, ($i*0.2*44100    , osc 0.3*44100, $_/44100);
       push @mix, ($l*0.2*44100+0.1, osc 0.8*44100, $_/44100);
       $i++;
    }
    (audiomix @mix)->scale2short->playaudio;
 }

AUTHOR

This file was translated from clm-2/scales.cl (common lisp music). the original comments are:

   ;;; This file contains more than 1100 musical scales, each one
   ;;; a separate list variable, containing notes as cents or ratios.
   ;;; The first note of 1/1 or 0.0 cents is implied.  The data was
   ;;; translated from ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/MIDI/DOC/scales.zip
   ;;; (a collection of around 1100 files) by Bill Schottstaedt
   ;;; 24-Aug-95.
   ;;;
   ;;; These scales were brought together mostly by John Chalmers
   ;;; (non12@cyber.net) and Manuel Op de Coul (coul@ezh.nl).
   ;;;
   ;;; The reference for the Greek scales in this archive is:
   ;;; John H. Chalmers: Divisions of the Tetrachord, 1993.
   ;;; Frog Peak, Box 1052, Lebanon NH 03766, USA.
   ;;;
   ;;; If you know of scales not in this archive please send them to
   ;;; Manuel Op de Coul (coul@ezh.nl).

   ;;; since doing this translation, another 100 or so scales have been added:
   ;;;
   ;;; ----------------
   ;;; Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 06:58:42 -0700
   ;;; From: COUL@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul)
   ;;; Subject: Updated scale archive
   ;;; 
   ;;; The scale archive with the collections of John Chalmers and myself
   ;;; has been updated and contains now over 1250 scales.
   ;;; The scales.doc file contains the complete listing. It's found here:
   ;;; 
   ;;; http://www.cs.ruu.nl/pub/MIDI/DOC/scales.doc (readme file, ASCII)
   ;;; http://www.cs.ruu.nl/pub/MIDI/DOC/scales.zip (ZIP file, binary)
   ;;; 
   ;;; Use the "-a" option while unzipping. The size of the ZIP file is about
   ;;; 284 Kb. FTP is possible also from ftp.cs.ruu.nl.
   ;;; The file format of the scales is that of my tuning program Scala,
   ;;; which I hope will be available soon. The files are text files so also
   ;;; usable without it. 
   ;;; 
   ;;; Manuel Op de Coul    coul@ezh.nl
   ;;; ----------------

SEE ALSO

perl(1), PDL, PDL::Audio.