Talk:Equal-step tuning

This article is deemed to be of high priority for the Xenharmonic Wiki, as it is often seen by new users or easily accessed from the main page or sidebar. Edits made to this article will have a significantly larger impact than on others, and poorly-written content will stand out more. As a result, it has been semi-protected to prevent disruptive editing and vandalism. Please be mindful of this when making edits to the article.

This page also contains archived Wikispaces discussion.

Consolidate ed-degrees pages

The degree is related to certain scales and not a concretely defined interval. The only widely recognized degree–ratio correlations are the octave (2/1), the fifth (3/2) and the fourth (4/3). All the others should be named by the exact ratio. For example, it is unclear what interval edX exactly splits. The ratio that makes the most logical sense would be either 81/32 or 5/2, yet in the article it is defined as 7/3. I suggest moving this page to ed7/3. Likewise, all the others except for edo, edt, and edf. Now I also suggest moving edf to ed3/2, since both fifth and fourth has the initial f and one cannot tell by the name if it's fifth or fourth. FloraC (talk) 23:41, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

I agree with everything except the final point. I think edf as equal divisions of the fifth is already well established (e.g. 9edf redirects to Carlos Alpha), while equal divisions of the fourth (currently in "edIV") are very scarcely used. I understand your concern when you say "one cannot tell by the name if it's fifth or fourth", but I don't think people should even guess the meaning of an acronym; they will learn that 'f' stands for "fifth", which makes sense because it is the simplest interval between 3/2 and 4/3. For that matter, some people write ed2 even though edo is relatively unambiguous, so I'd rather make it clear what edf means for those who choose to use it. --Fredg999 (talk) 01:12, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Agree with this. edIV should just be ed4/3 though. The edX page is actually so ridiculous I thought it was satirizing the wiki. - Sintel (talk) 02:22, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Alright, let's do it. FloraC (talk) 13:14, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

EDO tunings of some regular temperaments

Optimal ET sequence → Equal tuning (redirect) → Equal-step tuning (here)

I'd like to see a description about the benefits of tuning the temperaments to Equal-step tunings, somewhere from there to here. I feel like there was something like that somewhere.--Dummy index (talk) 14:45, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Bulk-editing the MMTM pages

A while back, Moremajorthanmajor made almost 500 pages for equal step tunings, which contained nothing except Infobox ET. Since then, we have marked them as stubs, but otherwise left them unchanged.

I’m thinking that I would like add ED Intro, Harmonics in Equal and Interval Table to each of those pages.

It wouldn’t fix the problem - they’d all still be stubs - but it would at least be a bit of a band aid to make the pages a bit more presentable.

If I did this, I would mark all the edits as minor, to make it easy to filter them out of recent changes.

Do you think this is a good idea, or would you rather I not do that?

--BudjarnLambeth (talk) 00:29, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

"Alpha-beta-gamma family of equal divisions"

What is this about?

Is this an already established concept? If so it might be helpful to add a citation or link to previous authors discussing it.

If it's original research, it might be worth using the {{Idiosyncratic terms}} mbox. I'm also not sure if the main equal step tuning page is the best place for it either or whether it should have its own dedicated page and just be linked from the main equal step tuning page.

If it's already a well established concept used by multiple theorists though, then it seems reasonable to include it on this page.

--BudjarnLambeth (talk) 01:21, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Certainly idiosyncratic. Moreover I don't think they belong to this article. FloraC (talk) 09:58, 28 October 2025 (UTC)