Playing around with alternate tunings. Escape from 12 TET. ‘Gamelan‘ flavour, obvs have no idea of the formal structures or conventions of traditional gamelan but it was fun anyway.
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After some quick research …
Classic Gamelan Orchester is 4,5 or 7 tones per octave …
Pitch is really odd from those gong things
If basic pitch is „f“
Second is 1,7 f
3rd is 2,29 f
Oddly I can’t find out what the other pitches are supposed to be
In that big pack of .scl file everybody uses are gamelan scale and tunings to sniff out …
Hope that helps
I think I copied the scale from ScaleGen, Gamelan Pelog average. Really this was just an exercise in microtuning, maybe there will be a dedicated module one day with scale import, but I’d explore just patching something together.
I didn’t really want to get to involved in studying Gamelan, even though I like it very much, so it’s Gamelan-ish.