posted 15 September 2005 19:49            

You may wish to try contacting Guiseppi Mendoza. He is the excellent fellow who converted the Scala DB to the OASYS PCI format which left me fain to swoon or at least all aglow. I had a brief email exchange with him about Kyma and other possibilities but this was mayhap '01ish. As he states here: http://www.mendozadil.freeserve.co.uk/ (Click the software button and select "Tunings Browser")

"Possible future support:
Any Synth or Softsynth that imports text file based tunings may be supportable relatively easily, send the details and I'll code it for you."

As I recall through the fog of my medicated cognitive impairment, he wasn't too interested in devices he didn't own but did indicate it is easy for him to do such conversions. I didn't really follow up as I was too busy jumping up and down clapping my hands with glee like Quasimodo in his bell tower having espied Esmeralda dancing in the square. My normal state consists of merely gibbering like a golem but the prospect of the marriage of the Scala tunings and OASYS physical modeling had discomposed my delicate neuropeptide cascades to a frothy frappe. As Kyma is not well disposed toward the PM end of the sound design spectrum (at least for me, unless I were to have several sessions with the Krell brain boost device, a prospect that, alas, seems remote at best. I submitted the paperwork sometime ago and have yet to receive a reply. I do hope all is well at Krell HQ!) my need for the Scala tunings was not pressing. Now, thanks to "better living through chemistry" I have achieved a measured, timed release calm and can confess to more than a passing interest in the Kyma/Scala collusion. If you are able to convince Mr. Mendoza to do the conversion, perhaps you could be so kind as to post the results to some suitable location for the benefit of other tuni-philes.

It's time for my evening "cocktail" (responsible in no small part for my rather effusive post, for which I apologize) and then off to continue my studies of the scum strata in my lagoon.

Best of luck and regards,

B-B-Baba