EDO vs ET: Difference between revisions

Another benefit to the temperament-free approach to EDOs is that it can avoid confusion that sometimes comes when applying the ET paradigm to tunings that provide questionable approximations to JI. It is a common topic of debate within the microtonal community whether a given EDO supports a given temperament, or even what it means for an EDO to support a temperament. For example, the question of whether or not 11-EDO supports Hanson temperament has been debated without a consensus having been reached. Another source of confusion in many EDOs is that the chords which are closest to a Just sonority are not always the most pleasant. A triad of 0-5-9 degrees of 14-EDO can be said to approximate 7:9:11, and is the lowest-error triad in 14-EDO, yet its comparative pleasantness to, say, 0-5-8 or 0-6-9 is definitely debatable. When temperament is left out of the picture, there is nothing to debate--EDOs simply "are what they are", and can be taken or left according solely to the whims of the composer.

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