User:CompactStar/EDO impressions: Difference between revisions

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[[4edo]]: 3edo but minor, essentially. I'm unsure if it can be called any better than 3edo, being a downgrade in terms of consonance, although there are slightly more options for melody.

[[5edo]]: We have reached the actual EDOs. Very constrained, of course, but that has some advantages. Almost all combinations of notes sound satisfactory so it is ideal for "randomly-generated" music. 1\5 is the only interval which may be reasonably considered a "third", so it is almost an exclusively minor scale, but not in a way which gets exhausted very quickly like 4edo. The interseptimals are on a weird border region here, 1\5 being either a sharp supermajor second or flat interseptimal, and similarly for 4\5.

[[5edo]]: We have reached the actual EDOs. Very constrained, of course, but that has some advantages. Almost all combinations of notes sound satisfactory so it is ideal for "randomly-generated" music. 1\5 is the only interval which may be reasonably considered a "third", so it is almost an exclusively minor scale, but not in a way which gets exhausted very quickly like 4edo. The interseptimals are on a weird border region here, 1\5 being either a sharp supermajor second or flat interseptimal, and similarly for 4\5, and they are hard to categorize as anything even with the intricate classifications of microtonality.

[[6edo]]: By far the most popular of the 12edo subsets, it has quite a directionless sound unless the type of very brute-force contrast from 3edo is applied. Works well for atonal music.

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 [[4edo]]: 3edo but minor, essentially. I'm unsure if it can be called any better than 3edo, being a downgrade in terms of consonance, although there are slightly more options for melody.
-[[5edo]]: We have reached the actual EDOs. Very constrained, of course, but that has some advantages. Almost all combinations of notes sound satisfactory so it is ideal for "randomly-generated" music. 1\5 is the only interval which may be reasonably considered a "third", so it is almost an exclusively minor scale, but not in a way which gets exhausted very quickly like 4edo. The interseptimals are on a weird border region here, 1\5 being either a sharp supermajor second or flat interseptimal, and similarly for 4\5.
+[[5edo]]: We have reached the actual EDOs. Very constrained, of course, but that has some advantages. Almost all combinations of notes sound satisfactory so it is ideal for "randomly-generated" music. 1\5 is the only interval which may be reasonably considered a "third", so it is almost an exclusively minor scale, but not in a way which gets exhausted very quickly like 4edo. The interseptimals are on a weird border region here, 1\5 being either a sharp supermajor second or flat interseptimal, and similarly for 4\5, and they are hard to categorize as anything even with the intricate classifications of microtonality.
 [[6edo]]: By far the most popular of the 12edo subsets, it has quite a directionless sound unless the type of very brute-force contrast from 3edo is applied.  Works well for atonal music.