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In essence, JI is when intervals can be defined as frequencies that align and form whole number ratios. The tonality diamond is the conceptual layout of an odd-limit.

Some extra things on Just Intonation is that there are other approaches to Just-Intonation besides the basic tonality diamonds. You have [https://en.xen.wiki/w/Primodality primodality] that exploits prime modes of the harmonic series and incorporates commas, which are ~~usually~~ seen as a musical ~~inconvience or~~ blight, and then you have Hexany by Erv Wilson which is a way to make JI without a tonal-center using Combination Product Sets. The [https://www.wilsonic.co/ Wilsonic software] makes all these things accessible.

Some extra things on Just Intonation is that there are other approaches to Just-Intonation besides the basic tonality diamonds. You have [https://en.xen.wiki/w/Primodality primodality] that exploits prime modes of the harmonic series and incorporates commas, which are conventionally seen as a musical inconvenience / blight, and then you have Hexany by Erv Wilson which is a way to make JI without a tonal-center using Combination Product Sets. The [https://www.wilsonic.co/ Wilsonic software] makes all these things accessible. What's important to note about high-complexity JI music psycho-acoustically is that extremely high-limit JI isn't going to be perceived as high limit JI, rather it is that super complex JI intervals end up being reinterpreted as approximations of simpler JI intervals. Point of diminishing returns.

== Equal Divisions of the Octave (EDOs) ==

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 In essence, JI is when intervals can be defined as frequencies that align and form whole number ratios. The tonality diamond is the conceptual layout of an odd-limit.
-Some extra things on Just Intonation is that there are other approaches to Just-Intonation besides the basic tonality diamonds. You have [https://en.xen.wiki/w/Primodality primodality] that exploits prime modes of the harmonic series and incorporates commas, which are usually seen as a musical inconvience or blight, and then you have Hexany by Erv Wilson which is a way to make JI without a tonal-center using Combination Product Sets. The [https://www.wilsonic.co/ Wilsonic software] makes all these things accessible.
+Some extra things on Just Intonation is that there are other approaches to Just-Intonation besides the basic tonality diamonds. You have [https://en.xen.wiki/w/Primodality primodality] that exploits prime modes of the harmonic series and incorporates commas, which are conventionally seen as a musical inconvenience / blight, and then you have Hexany by Erv Wilson which is a way to make JI without a tonal-center using Combination Product Sets. The [https://www.wilsonic.co/ Wilsonic software] makes all these things accessible. What's important to note about high-complexity JI music psycho-acoustically is that extremely high-limit JI isn't going to be perceived as high limit JI, rather it is that super complex JI intervals end up being reinterpreted as approximations of simpler JI intervals. Point of diminishing returns.
 == Equal Divisions of the Octave (EDOs) ==