«Monzo function» by eli.rosenkim
on 20 Apr'22 19:33 infunction takes in collection as argument, and returns the ratio from the resultant monzo
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// https://en.xen.wiki/w/Monzo //Monzo notation of JI ratios is often used in combination with Vals for temperament theory. I wrote this not for temperament, but rather to use monzos as a possible alternative to otonality and utonality, espescially when sonifying streams that include negative numbers. (//function that takes a collection representing a monzo as an argument, and outputs the ratio it encodes ~zo = { arg exponentCollection; var ratio = 1; exponentCollection.do({arg item, i; ratio = ratio * (i.nthPrime).pow(item);}); ratio; }; ) //5-limit ~zo.([-1, 1]); // 3/2 ~zo.([-2, 0, 1]); // 5/4 ~zo.([-3, 2]); // 9/8 ~zo.([-4, 4, -1]); // 81/80 ~zo.([-4, 4, -1]); // 81/80 //7-limit ~zo.([-2, 0, 0, 1]); // 7/4 ~zo.([-1, -1, 0, 1]); // 7/6 ~zo.([0, 0, -1, 1]); // 7/5 //fractional monzos ~zo.([-1/2, 3.3, 4, -5]); //sure //it might be fun to do monzo glissandos in different places?
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