Scale Workshop

Scale Workshop is a scale design application which can be used to design microtonal scales and play with them with a MIDI keyboard or an ordinary QWERTY keyboard. It was created by Sevish. Since version 2 the lead programmer is Lumi Pakkanen.

One common usage of Scale Workshop is sharing a link which represents a scale together with an isomorphic keyboard mapping, for example:

• https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/index.htm?name=24edo%20semaphore&data=50.%0A100.%0A150.%0A200.%0A250.%0A300.%0A350.%0A400.%0A450.%0A500.%0A550.%0A600.%0A650.%0A700.%0A750.%0A800.%0A850.%0A900.%0A950.%0A1000.%0A1050.%0A1100.%0A1150.%0A1200.&&vert=-4&horiz=5

When you follow that link you can instantly play the scale using that mapping.

Another common usage is exporting your scales for import into synthesizers or VST plugins.

Mirrors

• Latest version: https://scaleworkshop.plainsound.org/
• Latest stable version: https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/
• Development environment: https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop-dev/ (sometimes has new features but may be buggy)
• Scale Workshop classic (1.5): https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop1/
• Lumi's Scale Workshop: https://scaleworkshop.lumipakkanen.com/ (sometimes has new or alternative features)

Beta releases

At the time of writing (April 2024) the next major version of Scale Workshop is in the beta testing phase. Many key features like scale sharing are still missing.

• SW 3 beta: https://sw3.lumipakkanen.com/