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* [http://www.tallkite.com/alt-tuner.html Alt-tuner] – tuning plug-in that does adaptive tunings, on-the-fly retuning, and scale analysis by Kite Giedraitis

* [[Csound]] – an audio programming and processing environment

* [https://jird.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Jird] – a language for writing and hearing music in just intonation using ratios to express frequencies, durations, and volumes.

* [https://www.kvraudio.com/product/soundmodeler-by-soundmodeler 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://supercollider.github.io SuperCollider] – programming language for sound, possibility of user-defined synths, no restrictions for xenharmony

* [http://timidity.sourceforge.net/ TiMidity++] (→ [[Wikipedia: TiMidity++]])

* [https://www.weresocool.org/ WereSoCool] – a language for composing microtonal music

* [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.

=== Browser-based ===

* [https://microtone.cc/ Microtone] – open-source microtonal tracker

* [https://autotel.co/forbidden-music/ forbidden-music] – piano roll which is not quantized in the vertical axis, and offers a few tuning rules in the form of "snaps" to create harmony

== Notation software ==

* [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

* [[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

* [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] – 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.microsoft.com/p/xenharmonic-keyboard/9ppbl2brsk6z Xenharmonic Keyboard] – Windows-only isomorphic microtonal MIDI keyboard.

* [https://mshaf397.github.io/AllProjects-/synth2.html Adjustable Grid Web Synth] — Web synth with support for EDOs, nonoctave tunings, and JI. Also has adjustable base frequency, adjustable key size, and adjustable number of keys using rows/columns input fields.

== Software plugins (VST etc.) ==

: ''See [[List of Microtonal Software Plugins]] for many more.''  

* [https://www.kvraudio.com/product/imaginary-instruments-by-mirryou  Imaginary Instruments] - VST3 physical modeling synth that simulates things like toroidal drums, 4D spheres, etc, and you can change parameters like geometry and building material

** [https://mirryouser.gumroad.com/l/dfgpat (earlier build)]

* [https://www.audiopluginsforfree.com/partialstring-free-physical-modeling-synth/#:~:text=Free%20Physical%20Modeling%20Synth%20That%20Simulates%20Real,time%20using%20the%20Finite%2DDifference%20Time%2DDomain%20(FDTD)%20method. PartialString VSTi] — a physical modelling synthesiser that supports MTS-ESP

== Audio workstation software (DAWs) ==

: ''See [[DAWs]].''  

== Instrument tuner software==

* [https://www.nongnu.org/lingot/ LINGOT] for GNU/Linux – free software, universal tuner that supports [[Scala]] files

** [https://lingot.gitara.org.pl/ LINGOT for Windows] – third-party port of LINGOT

* [https://euwbah.github.io/mu-tune/ mu-tune] – by euwbah, browser-based, supports all [[equal tuning]]s and their subsets

* [https://microtonal-tuner.onrender.com/ Wilckerson Ganda's Microtonal Tuner] – Wilckerson Ganda's tuner for all edos and edonois

== Scale/tuning manipulation software ==

** [https://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/mini/ miniAudicle] – development environment by Princeton University which uses ChucK

*** [[Superparticular samchillian]] – open-source tuning manipulation code built on miniAudicle, by [[Leon Gruenbaum]] and [[Jacob Barton]] (2012)

* [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]]

** [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://colorhorizons.com/ Color Horizons] by [[Jon Lervold]] – scale generator and synthesizer

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20230326034951/http://micro.soonlabel.com/Scott_Thompson/edjiruler.html Edjiruler v0.0.1] – visualize JI intervals close to equal divisions of whole numbers

* [http://www.mikebattagliamusic.com/HE-JS/HE.html Harmonic Entropy Calculator] by [[Mike Battaglia]] – interactive [[harmonic entropy]] curves.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20230326034951/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

* [https://jeremiahgoyette.com/calculators/ Music Calculators] by Jeremiah Goyette

* [https://www.ambientesoterica.com/conv_calc.html Music Maker Calculator] by [[Ambient Esoterica]] – collection of small xenharmonic calculator gadgets

* [http://musictheory.zentral.zone/huntsystemcalc.html Online H-System Calculators] – Hunt Intonation Quality Grade Point Average (IQGPA) Calculator

* [https://www.projectivetuningspace.com Projective Tuning Space Interactive Application]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20221207043812/http://micro.soonlabel.com/Scott_Thompson/r2rtg.html Rank 2 Regular Temperament Generator] by Scott Thompson – a web app to generate rank-2 regular temperaments

* [https://scaleworkshop.plainsound.org/ Scale Workshop] – scale-creation site by [[Lumi Pakkanen]]. Allows playing via QWERTY computer keyboard. Can also export .scl and .kbm files.

** [https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop1/ Legacy version]

* [https://sintel.pythonanywhere.com/ Temperament Calculator] by [[Sintel]]

* [http://x31eq.com/temper/ Temperament Finder] by [[Graham Breed]]

* [https://suonoterapia.org/sound-of-color/ The Sound of Color] – listen to the sonification of colors as pitches transposed to the audible range and of color pairs as intervals

* [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 mos ring demo]

* [https://untwelve.org/interval_calc Untwelve.org interval calculator] – online interval calculator tool, shows linear fraction and edo fraction expansions, too

* [https://www.yacavone.net/xen-calc/ Xen-calc] – interval calculator that translates to/from ratios, cents, FJS and color notation, much more too.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180920184435/http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Just%20Intonation%20-%3E%20EDO%20calculator Xenharmonic Wiki interval calculator] – online interval calculator tool, shows linear fraction and edo fraction expansions, too

* [https://johnvalentine.co.uk/app/xetune/app.html XeTune] by John Valentine – tuning manipulation web app

==== Desmos.com ====

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

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/ivhjhwykvl Cent error of 3 harmonics]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/eiterjptig Cents to JI]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/ltkpe1ed3c Commas generalized clean]

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

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/0ple0quvkd Diatonic Scale Explorer] – visualize the diatonic scale with different sizes of fifths

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

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/3xpdewiqun Octave intervals]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/4ecaig9vkp Patent val monzo mappings]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/etryqmkqxk Pitch 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/h08zeml3lm Visualization of isomorphic key mappings]

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

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/dstp7wnidf Zeta in Desmos]

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

* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=an.FracPro Fraction Calculator] – 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

* [https://narenratan.com/tools/gralculator gralculator] — online [[Gral method]] calculator

* [http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/math/lcd.php Least Common Denominator of Fractions (LCD) Calculator] – put your JI ratios in here!

* [http://untwelve.org/online_tools UnTwelve Tools] – UnTwelve's online tools suite, including MOS visualization, Stern-Brocot Tree visualization, and an interval calculator which does ratio and EDO continued fractions.

* [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave] – 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

** [[Wolfram Alpha Regular Temperament Widgets]]

== Scale collections ==

* [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]

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* [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.

* [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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