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Another GUI oddity that may or may not merit a change:
Right now there's a button labelled "tun", short for TUNings. This is where one drags .scl / Scala files, and the status button indicates whether the special .scl file is currently activated or not.
However, "tun" is also an extension for a different tuning standard, which is incompatible with Surge at this time. See #1042
It makes things a little bit confusing - I glance at the button, think it refreshes my memory as to which type of file to drag to Surge, drag a .tun file over, and... nothing! Even more confusingly, there's another popular softsynth that also begins with an S and is also 5 letters long, but only supports .tun files, not .scl.
Anyway, since Surge supports .scl files, I think it would be less confusing if the button was labelled "scl" for "SCaLe".
However, I also understand that people may think primarily of different selections of notes within 12-TET tuning when seeing "scale" (minor scale, bebop, etc etc). So writing out "tuning" in full might also be acceptable - though this would destroy the symmetry with "mpe" above it. A terrible solution to this problem, which I only present in the spirit of bad ideas, would be to then also change the "mpe" label to "MiPoEx" which, despite its myriad flaws, is at least the same number of letters as "tuning" 😛
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Another GUI oddity that may or may not merit a change:
Right now there's a button labelled "tun", short for TUNings. This is where one drags .scl / Scala files, and the status button indicates whether the special .scl file is currently activated or not.
However, "tun" is also an extension for a different tuning standard, which is incompatible with Surge at this time. See #1042
It makes things a little bit confusing - I glance at the button, think it refreshes my memory as to which type of file to drag to Surge, drag a .tun file over, and... nothing! Even more confusingly, there's another popular softsynth that also begins with an S and is also 5 letters long, but only supports .tun files, not .scl.
Anyway, since Surge supports .scl files, I think it would be less confusing if the button was labelled "scl" for "SCaLe".
However, I also understand that people may think primarily of different selections of notes within 12-TET tuning when seeing "scale" (minor scale, bebop, etc etc). So writing out "tuning" in full might also be acceptable - though this would destroy the symmetry with "mpe" above it. A terrible solution to this problem, which I only present in the spirit of bad ideas, would be to then also change the "mpe" label to "MiPoEx" which, despite its myriad flaws, is at least the same number of letters as "tuning" 😛
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: