Microtonal eXplorer

This app is pretty good, could be improved. The interface is a bit weird, you have to add notes to a scale and then increment or decrement the size of each note, which is bad because increasing one note size changes the sound of every other interval. Also, the pitches aren't perfectly in tune: I can hear audible beating when I play octaves or accurate fifths sometimes.

Thank you for creating this simple app to explore microtonal scales. I was about to start coding for that myself before I found your app. You saved me tons of effort. I like how simple and intuitive it is to define new scales, save, load, and edit them in your app. If only you could add more enjoyable instruments that would be even more awesome.

Very unfriendly working with steps instead of tuning the note itself. I can't figure how to create the scales I want. Also, can't add notes! Only reduce

It're an good of app however ,it're the need the of ability to play on of differ ent "key s" by transpose by some arbitrary value -jec

Thank you for open source!!!

This app is pretty good, could be improved. The interface is a bit weird, you have to add notes to a scale and then increment or decrement the size of each note, which is bad because increasing one note size changes the sound of every other interval. Also, the pitches aren't perfectly in tune: I can hear audible beating when I play octaves or accurate fifths sometimes.

Not liberating enough.

Really cool!

This app is great but frustratingly limited. You can only create ed2 scales. No non octave-repeating scales, no JI. One might be able to approximate JI with ed2, but this isn't helped by a cumbersome interface. A sensible interface would be to 1. select a temperament, 2. pitch shift or 'mute' notes. But instead you add notes, then change the intervals. Changing one interval or deleting a note affects all others, very hard to predict. Also the notes seem to get stuck and ring forever.

no load external scale function...

Ok, you can divide an octave into any number of steps. But the way you add the "steps" is not that useful. People who work with micro-tonal systems, such as Harry Partch's or Ben Johnston's, won't find it useful. Instead of steps, you might want to have cents. Or better yet, look at the Appendix I of Harry Partch's "Genesis of a Music" and get every pitch in there. (340 in an octave) and then have files with subsets to setup a scale. With that, this app would be useful for instrumentalists to practice playing microtonal pieces by composers. The app could be used to help a musician hear the right pitch, and test his or her own rendering of the pitch. Keep in mind, a lot of microtonal music is an extension of "just", not equal tempored. So ratios are important.

I've been looking for something like this for the longest time, this is the only of its kind I've found. Very easy to use, simple. The notes still seem to be ringing afterward though, otherwise I'd have given it 5 stars. Thank you so much for making this.

I've been looking for something like this for the longest time, this is the only of its kind I've found. Very easy to use, simple. The notes still seem to be ringing afterward though, otherwise I'd have given it 5 stars. Thank you so much for making this.

Ok, you can divide an octave into any number of steps. But the way you add the "steps" is not that useful. People who work with micro-tonal systems, such as Harry Partch's or Ben Johnston's, won't find it useful. Instead of steps, you might want to have cents. Or better yet, look at the Appendix I of Harry Partch's "Genesis of a Music" and get every pitch in there. (340 in an octave) and then have files with subsets to setup a scale. With that, this app would be useful for instrumentalists to practice playing microtonal pieces by composers. The app could be used to help a musician hear the right pitch, and test his or her own rendering of the pitch. Keep in mind, a lot of microtonal music is an extension of "just", not equal tempored. So ratios are important.