[1/n] I recently explored 'microtuning', which is what music makers need to do to play non-western music on western instruments.

I wrote an app [1] to help, along with some exercises on an various tunable instruments, which helped me understand what makes chords harmonic, lush, buzzy, discordant, and so on.

[2/n next: what I learned]

This isn't an ad (for free software), but I should quote my sources:

[1] https://johnvalentine.co.uk/app/xetune/app.html

#microtonal #tuning #xetune

I made a web app. With #XeTune, visualise custom tunings for virtual instruments, and compose your own. Interoperable with Scala files.

In the screenshot, I generated some tunings, then composed a new tuning based on 31-EDO, and substituted some harmonic ratios.

Use: https://johnvalentine.co.uk/app/xetune/app.html

Example steps: https://github.com/j5v/xetune/wiki/Example:-Compose-31-EDO-9i

View source: https://github.com/j5v/xetune

#Scala #microtuning #microtonal #music #xenharmonic #scl #ET12 #31EDO