User:BudjarnLambeth/Bird’s eye view of rank-2 temperaments

This is a page to easily navigate to temperaments that fit your interests.

Low complexity temperaments are likely to be of most interest to artists new to music tuning theory. That is because they tend to approximate all of the important intervals within less than 30 notes (occasionally even less than 12!), so they are the most practical to map onto a physical instrument.

Medium and higher complexity temperaments provide a bigger range of new intervals, and they approximate those intervals more accurately, but they may be unwieldy, requiring dozens or even hundreds of notes to approximate all the important intervals.

Feel free to add temperaments to the appropriate category if they are not already here. (If you're not sure which category to put them in, put them in honorable mentions).

1. Low complexity temperaments

Temperaments with less error than dicot and less complexity than magic.

1.1 5-limit

Meantone, augmented, mavila, porcupine, blackwood, diminished, srutal

1.2 7-limit

1.3 No-2s subgroups of 7-limit

1.4 Other subgroups of 7-limit

1.5 11-limit

1.6 No-2s subgroups of 11-limit

1.7 Other subgroups of 11-limit

1.8 13-limit

1.9 No-2s of 13-limit

1.10 No-2s subgroups of 13-limit

1.11 Other subgroups of 13-limit

1.12 Higher limits

1.13 No-2s higher limit subgroups

1.13 Other higher limit subgroups

2. Medium complexity temperaments

Temperaments with complexity in between magic and orson (inclusive) and error less than diminished.

2.1 5-limit

Magic, ripple, hanson, negri, tetracot, superpyth, helmholtz, sensi, passion, wuerschmidt, compton, amity, orson

2.2 7-limit

2.3 No-2s subgroups of 7-limit

2.4 Other subgroups of 7-limit

2.5 11-limit

2.6 No-2s subgroups of 11-limit

2.7 Other subgroups of 11-limit

2.8 13-limit

2.9 No-2s of 13-limit

2.10 No-2s subgroups of 13-limit

2.11 Other subgroups of 13-limit

2.12 Higher limits

2.13 No-2s higher limit subgroups

2.14 Other higher limit subgroups

3. High complexity temperaments

Temperaments with complexity higher than orson, and error less than orson.

3.1 5-limit

Vishnu, luna

3.2 7-limit

3.3 No-2s subgroups of 7-limit

3.4 Other subgroups of 7-limit

3.5 11-limit

3.6 No-2s subgroups of 11-limit

3.7 Other subgroups of 11-limit

3.8 13-limit

3.9 No-2s of 13-limit

3.10 No-2s subgroups of 13-limit

3.11 Other subgroups of 13-limit

3.12 Higher limits

3.13 No-2s higher limit subgroups

3.14 Other higher limit subgroups

4. Honorable mentions Temperaments which have low badness by some metric, but might not meet the criteria for the above lists.

4.1 5-limit

4.2 7-limit

4.3 No-2s subgroups of 7-limit

4.4 Other subgroups of 7-limit

4.5 11-limit

4.6 No-2s subgroups of 11-limit

4.7 Other subgroups of 11-limit

4.8 13-limit

4.9 No-2s of 13-limit

4.10 No-2s subgroups of 13-limit

4.11 Other subgroups of 13-limit

4.12 Higher limits

4.13 No-2s higher limit subgroups

4.14 Other higher limit subgroups

5. Exoemperaments Temperaments which have as much error as dicot, or more.

5.1 5-limit

Father, bug

5.2 7-limit

5.3 No-2s subgroups of 7-limit

5.4 Other subgroups of 7-limit

5.5 11-limit

5.6 No-2s subgroups of 11-limit

5.7 Other subgroups of 11-limit

5.8 13-limit

5.9 No-2s of 13-limit

5.10 No-2s subgroups of 13-limit

5.11 Other subgroups of 13-limit

5.12 Higher limits

5.13 No-2s higher limit subgroups

5.14 Other higher limit subgroups