Microtonal Playback and Notation

Example script (scamp): examples/Tutorial/18_microtonal.py

Download: 18_microtonal.py

Plays a few microtonal chords and notates them, turning on exact microtonal annotations.

Topics: Pitch › Scales & microtonality, Notation & engraving › Special notations

from scamp import *

s = Session()
piano = s.new_part("piano")

s.start_transcribing()

# this causes the true pitches to be written into the score by the notes, as midi pitch values.
engraving_settings.show_microtonal_annotations = True
# this can be used to control the max precision shown in the annotations (the default is 2 digits).
# in this case, it doesn't really do anything, since the pitches are already rounded to 1 digit
engraving_settings.microtonal_annotation_digits = 3

# playing microtonal pitches is as simple as using floating-point values for pitch
piano.play_chord([62.7, 71.3], 1.0, 1)
piano.play_chord([65.2, 70.9], 1.0, 1)
piano.play_chord([71.5, 74.3], 1.0, 1)

s.stop_transcribing().to_score().show()