Scala (software)

<h2 id="file-formats">File formats</h2>
<p>Scala can open, transform, and save standard MIDI files.  It can also export MIDI tuning tables in .tun format.  It provides a native, human-readable sequencing language (.seq).  But it is best known for its use of human-readable text files to store musical scales.
</p><p>The Scala scale file format<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> has become a standard for representing microtonal scales in a way that can be used by other software.  The Scala site lists over thirty applications that support the format, including several major commercial packages like <a href="/facts/Apple_Logic/QEwxny8W"> Apple Logic 7</a>, <a href="/facts/Melodyne/AtDEpNj3">Celemony Melodyne 3</a>, and <a href="/facts/Cakewalk_(company)/vN7UcH6U">Cakewalk</a> Rapture.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> Scala's developer also makes freely available an archive of over 5,000 Scala scale files, containing many musical scales of historical, cultural, and theoretical interest.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Microtuner/pVavU1ct">Microtuner</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Microtonal_music/p09RVrk8">Microtonal music</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/">Scala's home page</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Scala scale file (.scl) format". www.huygens-fokker.org. Retrieved 2021-09-15. <a href="http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/scl_format.html" target="_blank">http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/scl_format.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Rapture Microtuning and Alternative Tunings <a href="http://www.cakewalk.com/support/rapture/rapturetuning.asp" target="_blank">http://www.cakewalk.com/support/rapture/rapturetuning.asp</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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