/r/microtonal
anything not 12-tone equal temperament.
Videos, music, questions, discussions about instruments, software, theory like just intonation and temperament, and anything remotely related to xenharmonics and microtones!
== Useful links ==
Xenharmonic Alliance Facebook Group
Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory Facebook Group
List of microtonal-capable plugins
Microtonal/Xenharmonic IRC Chat
Xenharmonic Alliance Discord Server
== Microtonal Books ==
Just Intonation Primer - David B. Doty
The Arithmetic Of Listening - Kyle Gann
The Contemporary Guitar - John Schneider
Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, and Scale - William Sethares
Divisions of The Tetrachord - John Chalmers (Out of Print)
Harmonic Experience - W.A. Mathieu
Genesis of A Music - Harry Partch
Music Primer - Lou Harrison
Microtonality and the Tuning Systems Of Erv Wilson - Terumi Narushima
Musical Mathematics - Cris Forster
A Theory Of Evolving Tonality - Joseph Yasser
== URL’s to various websites, online books, etc ==
Spectralism: - http://cmp.music.illinois.edu/courses/tipei/M408E/Notes/spectral.pdf
Graham Breed’s Temperament Finding App: - http://x31eq.com/temper/ - http://x31eq.com/catalog2.html
The Xenharmonic Wiki; - https://en.xen.wiki/w/Main_Page
Interval Calculator: - https://untwelve.org/interval_calc
MOS Identifier: - http://ia800908.us.archive.org/31/items/mosedo.html/mosedo.html?p=12&g=5
Kite Giedratis’ book on Microtonality/Xenharmonics: - http://www.tallkite.com/misc_files/alt-tuner_manual_and_primer.pdf
List of Musical Modes for every division of the Octave: - http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/modename.html
David Keenan’s page on Tuning and Mathematics: - http://dkeenan.com/Music/index.htm
Paul Erlich’s Middle Path Paper: - https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/paperspdf/Erlich-MiddlePath.pdf
Joe Monzo’s Tonalsoft Encyclopedia: - http://www.tonalsoft.com/enc/encyclopedia-index.aspx
Kyle Gann’s Tuning Page: - https://www.kylegann.com/microtonality.html
The Wilson Archives: - http://www.anaphoria.com/wilson.html
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dropped this track and music video last weekend for my microtonal heavy psych-metal / krautrock / world music project “Disoriented Ghost” and figured i’d share here
I've moved all of https://www.chord-book.com to https://www.handsearseyes.fun, in the scope of eventually making it a wider ranged hosting grounds for visual/kynesthetic/audio performance tests... Use home page's links or the following :
The Hex Keyboard now sits at : https://handsearseyes.fun/Ears/HexKeyboard/HexKeyboard.php
The Microtonal Ear Trainer is at : https://handsearseyes.fun/Ears/ear_training/main.html
And the rest of the site also has the Microtonal Scale analyser and 12EDO chord search...
Hey 👋
I really like the way the forbidden music tool is laid out - i.e. not bound to any piano roll, but still really intuitive. I feel like this could be particularly helpful for composing scales not bound to the octave:
https://autotel.co/forbidden-music/
However, I'm looking for something a bit more solid and not browser based.
Does anyone know if anything like it exists?
I create microtonal music in Ableton, renoise etc. but don't always want to be tied to the 12 note scale.
Thanks!
So i recently got inspired by tiktok and i saw the song drum and bass waltz by aloboi and i was wondering how one makes that kind of music. I have ableton and im not even sure where to start.
Title says it all.
I'm slowly learning more about music theory and was wondering if there exist some graphical visualizations of patterns in something like "general harmony" that show relationships between the different flavors of sounds possible with different tuning systems. Since there seem to be more relationships than for example what the circle of fifths shows, and that's 1D, maybe some 2D or 3D plots could show interesting structures, increase comprehension and give clues as to which tuning systems excel at which tasks. Maybe this is getting into psychoacoustic territory? For example, what is minor, neutral and major actually? What axis are we moving along going from one to the other and what are some points that have some special properties?
Are there any books that explore this topic? Any interactive software tools that allow one to explore patterns?
Reaper controls velocity by dragging a notes Individual velocity number up and down. On finding this feature initially i thought it was cents value. But upon realizing that the cents value is not freely manipulatable on a note by note basis I became disappointed.
Is there any software which lets me do that or even better one which mods reaper to let it do what I wanted it to do?
Thanks?
This is a scale with 10 notes from start to octave. None of the notes have the same interval from one degree to the next. From 1.0 to 1.1x sounds approx like a whole tone and the step sizes get increasingly smaller the higher you go.
It seems like an acoustic scale, if I'm remembering the terminology right.
Is there a broad classification between equal tempering and "ill-temperament"? Can scales be de-tempered in somewhat controlled fashion?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21eVNexx1c8&ab_channel=CharlesMeriot
there is a riff in 8:00 that really cool can someone give me a transcription or a tab cause i can't figure it out by ear and thanks
https://youtu.be/XCWMOVpA2LY?si=HwODy1W75IcQMY3J
It's Swedish folk music!
Hello, I am trying to upload a solfeggio.scl file (From the Fokker folder) into sevish.org/scaleworkshop but the frequencies of the scale do not match the traditional Solfeggio frequencies:
Rather the A note is 440hz and so on. Does anyone know where to find the real Solfeggio . scl file or fix this on sevish? Thank you (and no, i'm not a hippie :))
Here are 14 minutes of electric aeolian harp as see through the use of Melodyne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WiCgZTazEU
To quote from the video
Roughly early Thanksgiving 2024 a snow / wind / temperature drop event occurred where I live. Here I present 4 tracks of 10 to 14 minute length in different tuning and arranged them to try to offset the 'blooms' in Cakewalk. Then I exported / imported the mix to Melodyne where you can see not only the drift caused by the wind pushing against the instrument, the differently tuned blooms, the rough gusts of wind, but more importantly the section below (Harmonics) illustrates how the the sound you hear is mostly overtones. The "pings" are snow flakes hitting individual strings. No effects were used except to normalize each track. I tune the harp by listening to the output on headphones and adjusting the tuning keys. Best to watch full screen - this is a 2K video. By default this is microtonal, though more of a "found tuning" instead of an intentional one.
I've open-sourced Wilsonic MTS-ESP...enjoy!