Daniel Wolf wrote:
24-tone equal temperament (quartertone tuning) is used only by a segment of the microtonal community. The "nonstandard key signature" feature has the great virtue of being adaptable to a wide variety of tuning systems, with as many accidentals and nominals as you need, and all of those which have constant structures can be transposed as needed via chromatic transposition. In combination with a microtonal relay program like InTun, Midi Relay, or Scala, Finale offers a powerful micrtonal capacity.
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Firstly, I should have pointed out I was purely talking about notation, and not about playback! Which leads me onto why I feel there needs to be a halfway option between the complex but versatile nonstandard-key option and normal keys. A significant proportion of microtonal music will be notatable with a 24-step system (obviously with a variety of symbols to choose from). Obviously, if something more complex is needed, then the person can expect to be digging around obscure dialogs. I guess all I'm really asking is for a one-click option, that would create a nonstandard setting which produces a basic quartertone system. (And having the transposition procedure have quartertone options would be nice!)
My points aren't so much for what would make my life easier - but I'm getting back to the old argument of how to make Finale more accessible to newcomers.
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