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Nuscale was the first software application in history which was able to arbitrarily retune synthesizers which did not support retuning capabilities. This allowed for retuning of classic MIDI synths like the Sequential Prophet VS and Roland D-50 even though they had no built in microtonal features. Nuscale also worked with other synths as well. This original version of Nuscale ran on the Atari ST computer and included a custom MIDI interrupt driver. It was used by a few people for writing microtonal music and for capturing ethnic scales from some master musicians from overseas.
Version 4 of Nuscale was completed.
A manual was written and version 4 of Nuscale was publically released to those who requested it, in response to heated public discussions between pundits claiming that the sort of generalized retuning that Nuscale did was “not possible” and “would never work”. At that time Nuscale had been used productively to write and explore microtonal music for six years. Development continued on Nuscale, adding some advanced features and it worked its way up to version 23 over the next year.
A version of Nuscale was ported to the Classic Mac.
The best features of Nuscale merged into Li’l Miss’ Scale Oven. Nuscale can now retune any number of instruments simultaneously to the same or different scales.
OS X native version 2.0 of LMSO released.
Nuscale is now 20 years old. Over the years, support has been added for multiple live tuning layers, various panorama modes, expressive and playable individualized note bending, MTS MIDI Tuning Standard reception so Nuscale’s tunings can be sequenced and Nuscale can act as a tuning front end make almost any instrument support the MIDI Tuning Standard, single note retuning, sequencable instantaneous scale changes with no glitching, extended just intonation via dynamic modulation, and performance setting documents that allow complete multi-instrument studio configurations to be swapped in in a single step. In addition, LMSO allows Nuscale to arrange tunings of instruments into multiple splits and layers, and control things with foot pedals. Holy cow, Nuscale still provides the most flexible and full featured tuning approach that exists, and it just keeps getting better and better. Nuscale is only one part of all the great tuning tools that come with Li’l Miss’ Scale Oven.

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