Hi Jay,

Actually, what I think is happening is that it indeed does keep the note at 0, however, if you try to enter a number above 12, say a 15, it resets the value to 12.  Making those changes (0s and 15s) to the <ctrl+F> F7 screen and then generating a bit and returning, you will find 0's and 12's. The reason I don't think it is internally resetting to 1 becomes painfully obvious if you enter all values of 12's and 1's as I did on this:

Arcade_Variation2   { ; This works nicely under DOSbox.
                     ; Fractint Version 2004 Patchlevel 10
                     ; tone map 1's and 12's
  reset=2004 type=mandelcloud passes=1 center-mag=-0.5/0/0.6666667
  params=-37 float=y maxiter=100 inside=0 periodicity=3 hertz=360
  polyphony=9 wavetype=7 attack=1 decay=0 sustain=15
  srelease=0 scalemap=12/12/12/12/12/12/1/1/1/1/1/1 orbitdelay=1500
  showorbit=yes sound=x/fm/quant colors=@default.map
  }

Bill




On 5/6/2011 1:20 AM, Jay Litwyn wrote: 
Suibject-Was: Re: [Fractint] DOSBox and MusicFractals

Test               { ;  I was just thinking that scalemappings to zero 
could
                     ;  signify a rest. Even though I used this 
version of
                     ;  Fractint Version 2004 Patchlevel 4
                     ;  to write these parameters, when I load them, 
it is
                     ;  interpretting them as defaults one to twelve.
  reset=2004 type=latoocarfian
  function=sin/flip/cos/asin
  center-mag=-0.000684158/4.31882/0.7141089/1.3384/4\
  1.6505097310925407/3.76194921054549525
  params=2.71828182845905/2.71828182845905/2.7182818\
  2845905/2.71828182845905 float=y maxiter=4000
  inside=0 outside=atan cyclerange=1/1 hertz=331
  sound=x/pc/fm/quant polyphony=6 wavetype=7
  attack=0 decay=15 sustain=15 srelease=3
  scalemap=0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0
  orbitdelay=1000 showorbit=yes
  } 



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