Evans Winner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just a couple of thoughts: > > Just for a tuning reference pitch one doesn't need any special > timbre--one could even use the PC speaker beep, for instance. > > And is there any reason why it couldn't be extended slightly such that > it can be used as a general tuning aide, rather than just for guitar? > After all, there are only 12 pitch-classes in standard 12tet.
I don't know enough about sound and music and scales and stuff to even understand what that last sentence meant :) While doing this small hack I was thinking that it would be nice to have a simple music program in Emacs, something like the old "trackers" on the Amiga. I saw one some time ago made in Elisp but it was too basic, IIRC, I don't think one could use samples, for example. And I don't know if it would be possible technically to do it, the internal `play-sound*' functions block Emacs until the sound is played so a sound cannot be interrupted and calling external commands, controlling mplayer or whatever, could introduce a delay from when you press a key to when the sound starts playing. At least I would guess so. _______________________________________________ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
