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== Audio workstation software (DAWs) ==

:''See [[DAWs]]''

== Composing software & electronic instruments ==
* [http://www.tallkite.com/alt-tuner.html alt-tuner] microtuning plug-in, does adaptive tunings, on-the-fly retuning, and scale analysis.
* [https://savethehuman5.com/ Chameleon] – a customizable MIDI controller interface that can be used to create, among other things, virtual microtonal keyboards.
* [https://csound.github.io/ Csound] (→ [[Csound]] and [[Wikipedia: Csound]]).
**[https://blue.kunstmusik.com/ blue] – a composition environment and frontend for Csound with python-based scripting capabilities.
**[https://www.untwelve.org/microcsound microcsound] – a Python-based front-end to Csound specifically geared to microtonal composition ([http://www.untwelve.org/static/microcsound/tutorial.txt tutorial]).
**[http://rationale.sourceforge.net/ Rationale: A Just Intonation Sequencer] – open-source software based on Csound and Python.
*[http://www.jhhl.net/iPhone/Droneo/ Droneo] – 8-voice polyphonic droning iPhone app, defines intervals in Just rations, equal divisions of an interval, or interactively with a tone spiral. Sounds nice, too.
* [http://www.dynamictonality.com/ Dynamic Tonality] – freely available dynamic tonality synthesizers and sequencers. ([[Wikipedia: Dynamic tonality|Wikipedia article on the dynamic tonality paradigm]]).
* [https://maxis.cool/frex Frequency Explorer] – a browser-based synthesizer + sequencer with precisely-configurable musical scale and harmonic spectrum.
* [https://www.celemony.com Melodyne] – commercial audio software with editing and analysis functions for scales and tunings.
* [[User:SAKryukov #Microtonal Fabric|Microtonal Fabric]] – web-browser based microtonal music platform, a framework for building universal or customized microtonal musical keyboard instruments, microtonal experiments and computing, music study, and teaching music lessons with possible remote options
* [http://www.math.tu-dresden.de/%7Emutabor/ Mutabor] – open-source dynamic microtuner, allowing mutable and static scales and tunings using flexible language developed for musicians with GUI ([http://schlemmersoft.de/en/Mutabor%20tutorial tutorial]).
* [https://offtonic.com/synth Offtonic Microtonal Synthesizer] – a JavaScript browser app that lets you play around with tunings.
*[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orphion/id495465097?mt=8 Orphion] – an iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales.
* [https://github.com/maxwellpollack/scalemap scalemap] – drop-in microtonal note-to-frequency mapping for C, C++, and Javascript
* [http://schismata.net/ Schismata] Musical composition tool in any user defined tuning. Supports polyrhythms, tuning changes in real-time, sliding notes, instrument design.
*[https://sonic-pi.net/ Sonic Pi &#45; The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone] – besides ''Live Coding'', you can also record to WAV format, microtonal capabilities are provided through adding decimals to MIDI numbers.
* [https://www.soundmodeler.com SoundModeler] Free sound modeling application. Exports audio files and Halion multisamples. The note pitch is transposed in accordance with chosen temperament (equal, Pythagorean, just or meantone 1/4 comma) in the settings..
*[https://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ SunVox Modular Music Studio] – a modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker), available for desktop (free of cost) and mobile devices (for approx. $6). [https://youtu.be/UJXEsfbUvvs Changing the musical scale in SunVox (video)]
* [http://terpstrakeyboard.com/play-it-now/ Terpstra Keyboard WebApp] – cross-platform web app that allows mapping of any tuning (in Scala format) on any form of generalized hexagonal layout. Settings are stored in the address bar for easy sharing.
* [https://www.thumbjam.com/ ThumbJam] – an iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales. It can open any .scl (Scala) files.
* [http://timidity.sourceforge.net/ TiMidity++] (→ [[Wikipedia: TiMidity++]])
*[http://tonalsoft.com/tonescape.aspx Tonescape] – music composition, analysis and educational tool.
*[http://robertinventor.com/software/tunesmithy/music.htm Tune Smithy]
*[https://www.tuningvine.com/ Tuning Vine] – an interface for just intonation, with a color-coded lattice.
*[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wilsonic/id848852071?mt=8 Wilsonic] – an iPad/iPhone app for exploring alternative scales, see it in action: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZ6VE6E_uE the source file 3 - YouTube].
**[https://audiokitpro.com/synth/ AudioKit Synth One] – a free iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales, which can import scales directly from within Wilsonic.
*[https://www.microsoft.com/p/xenharmonic-keyboard/9ppbl2brsk6z Xenharmonic Keyboard] – a Windows-only isomorphic microtonal MIDI keyboard.

== Mathematics software ==
* [http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/cfCALC.html Continued Fraction Calculator]
* [http://www.mindspring.com/~alanh/fracs.html Fast Decimal to Fraction Approximations]
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=an.FracPro Fraction Calculator] — An Android app that [[User:PiotrGrochowski]] recommends to install. Allows to do arithmetic on fractions, while ''not'' outputting a mixed fraction.
* [http://www.numberempire.com/fractionscalculator.php Fraction Expression Calculator] - easily do ratio arithmetic
* [http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/math/lcd.php Least Common Denominator of Fractions (LCD) Calculator] - put your JI ratios in here!
* [https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/245142985/ Number To Fractions] — Finds fractions to a number that improve over the previous. Allows restricting to 3–limit, 5–limit, 7–limit, 11–limit or 13–limit. Type a number to be approximated by JI ratios, or the binary logarithm of a ratio to be approximated by edo intervals.
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave] - a free, open source equivalent to MATLAB; useful for working with matrices and much more
*[http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php Online LaTeX Equation Editor] - create mathematical expressions in LaTeX format for wiki pages etc.
* [http://www.wolframalpha.com Wolfram Alpha] - perform a variety of intensive mathematical calculations in your browser

== Notation software ==
* [http://moinejf.free.fr/ abcm2ps] Free, open-source, ASCII-based editor with support for some microtonal accidentals.
* [http://www.lilypond.org Lilypond] Free, open-source, outstanding notation software that produces beautiful engraving-quality output on a par with commercial applications like Sibelius. Thanks to the [http://x31eq.com/lilypond/ work of Graham Breed], can use [[Sagittal notation|Sagittal]] glyphs. With the [http://www.ekmelic-music.org/en/software/ekmelily.htm Ekmelily] extension, it can support several other notation styles, namely [http://www.ekmelic-music.org/en/em-n.htm Tartini, Richter Herf/Madel and Sims].
* [http://www.computermusicnotation.com/ MaxScore] is an Java object for Max/MSP. It is based on Nick Didkovsky's JMSL which natively supports quarter-tone notation, but is capable of playing back microtonal music with unlimited precision. In the most recent version of MaxScore, microMaps have been implemented in the score canvas that allow the display of microtonal inflections in any kind of notation system provided that a font exists to represent those inflections. So far, microMaps for 48TET and 72TET exist. It is planned to develop an standalone editor which doesn't require any Max programming expertise. For more information send an email to [[/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection|[email protected]]]
* [http://www.mus2.com.tr/en/ Mus2] is a microtonal score editor with intonationally-correct playback. It allows the retuning of staves and import of symbols from graphics files and fonts to be used as accidentals.
**[https://www.steinberg.net/dorico/ Dorico], expensive but a leading notation software with full support with the same method as Mus2 above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaadFpqm3-U
* [https://musescore.org/ MuseScore] open-source notation software. Can be microtuned with the [https://github.com/euwbah/musescore-microtonal-edo-plugin retuner plugin for almost any edo]. The [https://musescore.org/en/project/xentuner Xentuner] plugin by [[Keenan Pepper]] is also very good. See [[MuseScore]] for the dedicated page.

== Software plugins (VST etc.) ==

:''See [[List of Microtonal Software Plugins]]''

== Tuning manipulation software ==

*[https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ Scala] (→ [[Scala]] and [[Wikipedia: Scala (software)]]) - the ''de facto'' standard software for creating, manipulating and analyzing tunings
** instructions for [[Creating_Scala_scl_files_for_rank_two_temperaments|Creating Scala scl files for rank two temperaments]]
**[http://12equalboresme.com/ Scala Microtuners for Kontakt and SynthEdit] which enable real-time scale or key change for an ensemble of soft synths by means of note events on designated midi channels
* [http://www.tallkite.com/alt-tuner.html alt-tuner] - a tuning plug-in that does adaptive tunings, on-the-fly retuning, and scale analysis by Kite Giedraitis
* [http://robertinventor.com/software/tunesmithy/music.htm Fractal Tune Smithy &amp; Bounce Metronome] - by Robert Walker
*[http://www.microtonalsoftware.com/ Scala to TUN and MTS online converter] - by MicrotonalSoftware.com
* [https://github.com/maxwellpollack/scalemap scalemap] - drop-in microtonal note-to-frequency mapping functionality for C, C++, and Javascript
* [http://x31eq.com/temper/ Temperament finder] - site by [[Graham_Breed|Graham Breed]]
* [http://tonalsoft.com/tonescape.aspx Tonescape] - Music composition, analysis and educational tool by Joe Monzo

== Tuning manipulation software (browser-based) ==
*[http://www.untwelve.org/static/javascript_demos/MOSring.html Animated MOS ring demo]
*[http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-centsratio.htm Cents to Ratio Calculator] - and much more! Also, [http://robertinventor.com/software/tunesmithy/help/cents_and_ratios.htm another one] with extensive instructions
* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/0ple0quvkd Diatonic Scale Explorer] - Visualize the diatonic scale with different sizes of fifths
* [http://micro.soonlabel.com/Scott_Thompson/edjiruler.html edjiruler v0.0.1] - Visualize JI intervals close to equal divisions of whole numbers
* [https://maxis.cool/frex Frequency Explorer] - a browser-based synthesizer + sequencer with precisely-configurable musical scale and harmonic spectrum
* [http://www.mikebattagliamusic.com/HE-JS/HE.html Harmonic Entropy Calculator] - Interactive Harmonic Entropy curves.
*[http://sjoerdvisscher.handcraft.com/keyboard.html Hexagonal Keyboard Demo]{{Dead link}} - by Sjoerd Visscher
* [[Interval calculator]] - a nice online interval calculator tool, shows linear fraction and EDO fraction expansions, too
* [http://www.chord-book.com/microtonal/scale_intervals_calculator.php JI Scale Interval Calculator] - Shows a list of all JI intervals in your JI scale
*[[Just_Intonation_--_EDO_calculator|Just Intonation -&gt; EDO calculator]]
* [http://www.microtonalsoftware.com/scale-tree.html Microtonal Software Scale Tree] - ET Scale Tree Playground
* [https://microtonal-tuner.herokuapp.com Microtonal-tuner] - Wilckerson Ganda's tuner for all EDOs and EDONOIs (be sure to use https: not http:)
*[http://microtone.isans.net/ Microtone]{{Dead link}} - A HTML5 uniform keyboard demo with any equal temperament
*[http://the-monochord.rhcloud.com/ The Monochord]{{Dead link}} - Try out just intervals from a base frequency.
*[http://ia801408.us.archive.org/1/items/mosedo.html/mosedo.html?p=12&g=5 MOSedo] - Moments of Symmetry in equal divisions of the octave calculator
* [https://jeremiahgoyette.com/calculators/ Music Calculators | Jeremiah Goyette] (mostly set calculators)
* [http://offtonic.com/synth/index.html Offtonic Microtonal Synth]
* [https://academo.org/demos/19-tet-keyboard/ Online 19-edo keyboard]
* [http://musictheory.zentral.zone/huntsystemcalc.html Online H-System Calculators] - Hunt Intonation Quality Grade Point Average (IQGPA) Calculator
* [http://http://terpstrakeyboard.com/web-app/keys.htm Online Terpstra keyboard (isomorphic hexagonal keyboard)]
*[http://micro.soonlabel.com/Scott_Thompson/r2rtg.html Rank 2 Regular Temperament Generator] - generate rank2 regular temperaments
*[http://fritzo.org/keys/#style=piano Rational Keyboard] - JI keyboard with keys that grow in size
* [https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/ Scale Workshop] Browser-based scale-creation site by Sevish. Allows playing via QWERTY computer keyboard. Can also export .scl and .kbm files.
*[https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/247892491/ Selected just intervals by error]
*[https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/249278782/ Selected just intervals by error (MediaWiki output)]
*[https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/247966069/ Table of edo intervals]
*[https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/247936394/ Tempered out comma finder]
*[https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/247941879/ Tempering out edo finder]
*[http://www.jhhl.net/tonespiral.html Tonespiral] - Listen to harmonics visualized as a spiral
*[http://www.untwelve.org/static/javascript_demos/MOSring.html Untwelve.org animated Javascript Moment of Symmetry (MOS) ring demo]
*[http://www.toverlamp.org/static/wickisynth/wickisynth.html Wickisynth] - tuning demo synthesizer with Wicki-Hayden key layout
*[[Wolfram Alpha Regular Temperament Widgets]]
* [https://www.yacavone.net/xen-calc/ Xen-calc] An interval calculator that translates to/from ratios, cents, FJS and color notation, much more too.
*[https://xenpaper.com/ Xenpaper.com] - A text-based microtonal sequencer, like a notepad. Write down musical ideas and share the link around

== Programming ==

:''See [[Programming]]''

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