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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: Scala files dont occupy full keyrange - dont think its Continu/Keybrd setting

« on: August 04, 2021, 03:42:04 PM »

Hey Toltekradiation

Thanks for the info.... and although I now don't believe it's based around reading cent values only your reply was really useful.....
I think I have found the culprit.

After reading your post I experimented a little. Leimma thankfully has the ability to display as ratios or cents (albeit to no decimal places but never mind) so I edited the .scl to have cents instead....
Same Problem 

So whilst text editing the .scl files, I then thought to compare the text format on a known working .scls with those of Leimma. Leimma outputs a slightly different layout than the files I know to work so I adjusted the format to be the same and whaddyaknow... it works.

I then kind of reversed what I'd done to try and work out the exact format... from what I can see it needs the following convention:
(Interestingly it didn't work until I put the line break in between ! and #description#)

So from my deductions here's an example

! #name#.scl
!
#description#
 4 (or however many notes are in the scale)
!
#ratio
#ratio
#or cents
#etc....
2/1

I am not an expert by any means in .scl files so I really hope that this is correct and not giving folks any misdirection!!! In any case it seemingly works properly for me now so I think I can create tuning systems to my hearts content.

Thanks again for your help.... I definitely wouldn't have gotten there without your suggestion

-CALC-

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Scala files dont occupy full keyrange - dont think its Continu/Keybrd setting

« on: August 03, 2021, 02:47:00 PM »

Hello,

Apologies if this is a total user error misunderstanding. I've checked out the forum to the best of my ability and haven't seen this crop up as a question before.

I've been using the rather wonderful Leimma online tool to make some tuning systems, handily these spit out .scl exports too. If you haven't tried it and have a little interest in microtonalities you really should. https://isartum.net/leimma

Anyways when I upload these .scl to both Preen FM2 and Preen FM3 the scales only occupy the keyboard area from C3-C4 (C3 being middle C). I've tried the Keyboard and continuous settings in the Preen Scala Set up but this seems to have no affect.

I've attached a created 12 note .scl file of an example of this.

I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong in my scala exports, if I load a file from the big world folder of readily available Scala's then the whole keyboard range is filled out but I'm a little more interested in creating my own systems these days.
Also if I load the same .scl file into the Novation Summit the whole keyboard range is occupied as I would expect (this is regardless of the TuningMode (8ve/note) setting in Summit  which is more aimed at scale creation on the synth itself).

So I wonder if anybody else has come across this and knows if there is a fix or something I should do differently to get the scale mapped across the whole keyboard range.
Thanks in anticipation

-CALC-