Converting TUN files to SCL… is it possible??

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I've found a few ways to convert SCL to TUN, but can I vise versa???… I have many good TUN files that I simply can't find in scala…

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All a .scl file really is is a text file formatted properly with the extension .scl.

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evidently .tun takes middle C = 261.625565 Hz as default or note 0. So if your .tun uses another 'tonic', for your translation you'll need to calculate to get note 0 = 0. (With every other basis in their conversion, note 0 = 16. That makes no sense. But, I suppose, take note of what 0 =, and how the frequencies are skewed, that screws with your .scl if you don't correct. In these cases subtract 16 from all the numbers. ;) )

But that's a working scala file, that's what the format looks like, I do it all the time in text edit, save as .scl.
(The .tun file was created at http://www.microtonalsoftware.com/scl-s ... erter.html.)

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Yes, i realise all this, but is there a tool (other than my overworked brain) that will calculate and convert for me is what i was asking :)

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I found a folder with a bunch of .tuns here.


File converted by "ScalaConverter",
; written by Tobias Fleischer,
; available at http://www.tobybear.de

Which is an ex-website. Joined the choir invisible, it did.

But looking at them, they all work from note 0 = 0. So ignore everything I said, I simply don't know what happened with those conversions. I found http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/Sca ... torial.pdf but installing scala on a Mac is quite an exotic exercise which I'm just never going to bother doing.
and the entire spec: http://www.mark-henning.de/files/am/Tun ... V2_Doc.pdf
which didn't sort me at all.
http://www.mark-henning.de/files/am/TUN-Tools_V100.zip

You have to calculate it from note 0 to note 127 or it will probably revert to default which is 12tET.
The only indication I found of transposition was before the list:

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So, this Tobias Fleischer fellow probably knows his shit, I'm assuming these files work. I don't think I have anything that uses .tun other than Logic's instruments where the interface is in Logic for it, or VSL's instruments in VI Pro which is also self-contained, but no way to test these.

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