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* [https://xenharmlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html Xenharmlib] – a python music theory library for the exploration and research of microtonality, diatonic set theory, non-standard notations, and many more.

 

* [[Xenpaper]] – text-based microtonal sequencer, like a notepad. Write down musical ideas and share the link around

== Software instruments ==

* [https://audiokitpro.com/synth/ AudioKit Synth One] – free iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales, which can import scales directly from within Wilsonic.

* [https://savethehuman5.com/ Chameleon] – customizable MIDI controller interface that can be used to create, among other things, virtual microtonal keyboards.

* [http://www.jhhl.net/iPhone/Droneo/ Droneo] – 8-voice polyphonic droning iPhone app, defines intervals in just ratios, equal divisions of an interval, or interactively with a tone spiral. Sounds nice, too.

* [http://www.dynamictonality.com/ Dynamic Tonality] – freely available {{w|dynamic tonality}} synthesizers and sequencers.  

* [https://maxis.cool/frex Frequency Explorer] – browser-based synthesizer + sequencer with precisely-configurable musical scale and harmonic spectrum.

* [https://www.moforte.com/ GeoShred] – iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales.

* [https://sjoerdvisscher.glitch.me/keyboard/ Hexagonal Keyboard Demo] by Sjoerd Visscher

* [https://hpi.zentral.zone/microsynth Microsynth] – microtonal soundfont synthesizer for macOS and Windows

* [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orphion/id495465097?mt=8 Orphion] – iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales.

* [https://academo.org/demos/19-tet-keyboard/ Online 19-edo keyboard]

* [http://fritzo.org/keys/#style=piano Rational Keyboard] – JI keyboard with keys that grow in size

* [https://sonic-pi.net/ Sonic Pi - 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.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ SunVox Modular Music Studio] – 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] – 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] – iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales. It can open any .scl (Scala) files.

* [http://www.toverlamp.org/static/wickisynth/wickisynth.html Wickisynth] – tuning demo synthesizer with Wicki-Hayden key layout

 

 

** [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://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ Scala] (→ [[Scala]] and [[Wikipedia: Scala (software)]]) – the ''de facto'' standard software for creating, manipulating and analyzing tunings

** [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

* [https://github.com/maxwellpollack/scalemap Scalemap] – drop-in microtonal note-to-frequency mapping functionality for C, C++, and Javascript

* [https://github.com/FloraCanou/temperament_evaluator Temperament Evaluator] by [[Flora Canou]] – set of Python scripts to compute [[TE tuning]]s, [[badness]]es, [[optimal patent val]]s, etc.

* [http://robertinventor.com/software/tunesmithy/music.htm Tune Smithy] by [[Robert Walker]]

* [https://hpi.zentral.zone/ute Universal Tuning Editor] – create, import, edit, convert, map to any keyboard geometry, retune in real time, etc.

* [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 video)]): built on the works of [[Erv Wilson]]

* [https://github.com/Woyten/tune tune] – explore musical tunings and create synthesizer tuning files for microtonal scales

=== Browser-based ===

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/spaa3c3yik Basic waveforms – sine wave harmonics]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/xxkhgyrcym Compare harmonics to edos]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/sidygvcjet Octave harmonics proximity to edo (circle)]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/avzatq2itb Rank-1 temperaments close to specific JI]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qab5kzc6ey Temps within ed#]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/0za9hshqah What edos have generator sizes/interval ranges]

==== Scratch.mit.edu ====

* [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.

* [https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/247892491/ Selected just intervals by error]

** [https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/249278782/ 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]

* The tunings in [https://isartum.net/leimma Leimma]. These all come with sources attributed.

* Sevish's [https://sevish.com/music-resources/#tuning-files tuning files] give sources in the accompanying PDFs

* Wilson's garden, a scale collection built into [https://github.com/marcus-w-hobbs/Wilsonic-MTS-ESP Wilsonic]

* The [https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/surge/tree/main/resources/data/tuning_library tuning library] included with Surge XT

* The tunings which come with [https://www.semantic-danielou.com/semantic-danielou-53/download-and-installation-semantic-danielou-53/ Semantic Daniélou-53]

* Ableton comes with a library of [https://tuning.ableton.com tunings]

* [https://scalelibrary.org scale-library], a library of microtonal scales with sources attributed.

== Discontinued and broken software ==

* [https://hpi.zentral.zone/cse Custom Scale Editor] – at one time the most widely used tuining app after Scala, replaced by [https://hpi.zentral.zone/ute Universal Tuning Editor]

* [http://www.mindspring.com/~alanh/fracs.html Fast Decimal to Fraction Approximations]{{dead link}}

* [http://microtone.isans.net/ Microtone]{{dead link}} – HTML5 uniform keyboard demo with any equal temperament

* [http://www.microtonalsoftware.com/MicrotonalSoftware.com]{{dead link}}

** [http://www.microtonalsoftware.com/scale-tree.html ET Scale Tree Playground]{{dead link}}

* [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] – [[mos]] in equal divisions of the octave calculator

* [https://suonoterapia.org/overtones/Overtones spiral]{{dead link}} – listen to harmonics 1-16 visualized as a spiral

** Scala (SCL) to TUN and MTS online converter{{dead link}}

* [https://www.tuningvine.com/Tuning Vine]{{dead link}} – an interface for just intonation, with a color-coded lattice.

* [http://tonalsoft.com/tonescape.aspx Tonescape] – music composition, analysis and educational tool by [[Joseph Monzo]], intended primarily for composition but also effective for tuning manipulation. Broken due to being very old software.

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