An implementation and evaluation of a 19 tone synth.
Abstract
In this essay it is described how to implement a 19 tone digital synthesizer. This in contrast to our normal musical scale which consists of 12 tones. Relevant pieces of music theory is reviewed to give the reader a chance to grasp the reasoning that is used when the two musical scales are compared and the technical implementation is explained. This is not only a study of musical scales, but also a study in how to implement a digital synthesizer. In particular the relatively new programming language ChucK is examined in order to construct the audio logic for the synthesizer and is consequently liable for analysis and discussion, but also the procedure of creating a graphical interface in Java and making it cooperate with an application written in an extraneous programming language is made clear.