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[[File:EDO Tier List.png|alt=A tier list of EDOs. S Tier - 12, 34, 31, 53, 72, 50, 22, 17, 15, 26, 19. A Tier - 27, 10, 46, 21, 20, 7, 16, 41, 55. B Tier - 18, 24, 36, 48, 65, 58, 25, 63, 13, 11, 56, 29, 23, 9, 5, 8. C Tier - 40, 43, 28, 14, 70, 68, 57, 37, 30, 60, 54, 49, 47, 44, 38, 67, 59, 35, 6. F Tier - 52, 62, 66, 71, 64, 39, 51, 61, 32, 39, 42, 45, 33.|thumb|Ebooone's tier list of EDOs 5-72, available at https://tiermaker.com/list/personal/numbers-0-100-15569788/3966935.]]

[[File:EDO Tier List.png|alt=A tier list of EDOs. S Tier - 12, 34, 31, 53, 72, 50, 22, 17, 15, 26, 19. A Tier - 27, 10, 46, 21, 20, 7, 16, 41, 55. B Tier - 18, 24, 36, 48, 65, 58, 25, 63, 13, 11, 56, 29, 23, 9, 5, 8. C Tier - 40, 43, 28, 14, 70, 68, 57, 37, 30, 60, 54, 49, 47, 44, 38, 67, 59, 35, 6. F Tier - 52, 62, 66, 71, 64, 39, 51, 61, 32, 39, 42, 45, 33.|thumb|[OUTDATED, soon to be updated] Ebooone's tier list of EDOs 5-72, available at https://tiermaker.com/list/personal/numbers-0-100-15569788/3966935.]]

I, at least currently, work strictly in [[EDO|'''edos''']]. I don't tend to go any higher than '''72edo''' in my own works, so here are my impressions of all the positive integer edos up to 72. Of course, the '''tier list''' above is subject to change in the future, as are all of the impressions on this page.

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=== [[1edo]] ===

''Tier: '''~~N/A~~'''''[[File:1edo groove.mp3|none|thumb|1edo metal on E]]

''Tier: '''F'''''[[File:1edo groove.mp3|none|thumb|1edo metal on E]]

Honestly, can this one even be called an edo? I mean, "equal divisions of the octave" implies that the octave is divided. Anyway, this edo is pretty lame because the whole point of using different temperaments is to access certain melodic and harmonic properties, and this edo doesn't allow any of that. The only way to make this edo musical is through rhythm, dynamics, form, etc... stuff that isn't related to tuning.

Although, technically there is some room for "melodic" expression if you allow yourself to use devices such as pitch bend. Or, perhaps you could use timbres that don't exactly settle on one pitch but clearly aren't unpitched either, like an old guitar string with wobbly harmonics. These "cheat codes" are partially what make one-note jazz solos so interesting, but of course the rest of the interest comes from the novelty of playing only one note amidst an electron cloud of dissonance. On its own, there really isn't much this tuning offers.

At least it's better than [[0edo]].

=== [[2edo]] ===

''Tier: '''~~N/A~~'''''

''Tier: '''F'''''

[[File:2edo groove.mp3|none|thumb|2edo "mischievous" on E and B♭]]

This edo is literally just a tritone. And, in this case, it ~~isn~~'~~t really that great of~~ a ~~tritone~~. It's the 600¢ hemioctave tritone, the only one with no octave complement, ~~so the~~ melodic and harmonic capabilities ~~of this tritone~~ in isolation are pretty bare. ~~That being said~~, this is the ~~smallest~~ edo ~~with~~ any ~~dissonance~~, so that~~'s a bonus~~.

This edo is literally just a tritone. And, in this case, it's a rather interesting one. It's the 600¢ hemioctave tritone, the only one with no [[octave complement]]. So, while its melodic and harmonic capabilities in isolation are pretty bare, its symmetrical nature allows for some cool gimmicks. If instead it were, say, [[11/8]], that would open the possibility of using both 11/8 and [[16/11]], its octave complement. This would allow for greater melodic and harmonic possibilities, but at the expense of having a neat symmetrical tritone.

To illustrate this tritone's nature, the demo for this edo is completely flipped on its head. If you listen carefully, you will notice that the pizzicato violins and celli play each other's part upside down in the second half of the loop. The gimmick is that this only affects contour, not the harmony. So yeah, that's pretty cool.

Anyway, this edo isn't much. In fact, I can't honestly say it's any better than 1edo. In theory, there should be no reason to choose 1edo over 2edo, but how much does that one extra note really add in practice? At the end of the day, they are both just novelties.

=== [[3edo]] ===

''Tier: '''N/A'''''

[[File:3edo groove.mp3|none|thumb|3edo "brumous" ambience on D augmented]]

This edo is just an augmented triad, but specifically one that closes the octave and, as such, cannot be inverted~~. This means that, once again, the melodic and harmonic capabilities of this edo are pretty limited. Nothing much else to say~~.

This edo is just an augmented triad, but specifically one that is derived by stacking 400¢ major thirds, meaning it closes the octave and, as such, cannot be inverted.

=== [[4edo]] ===

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-[[File:EDO Tier List.png|alt=A tier list of EDOs. S Tier - 12, 34, 31, 53, 72, 50, 22, 17, 15, 26, 19. A Tier - 27, 10, 46, 21, 20, 7, 16, 41, 55. B Tier - 18, 24, 36, 48, 65, 58, 25, 63, 13, 11, 56, 29, 23, 9, 5, 8. C Tier - 40, 43, 28, 14, 70, 68, 57, 37, 30, 60, 54, 49, 47, 44, 38, 67, 59, 35, 6. F Tier - 52, 62, 66, 71, 64, 39, 51, 61, 32, 39, 42, 45, 33.|thumb|Ebooone's tier list of EDOs 5-72, available at https://tiermaker.com/list/personal/numbers-0-100-15569788/3966935.]]
+[[File:EDO Tier List.png|alt=A tier list of EDOs. S Tier - 12, 34, 31, 53, 72, 50, 22, 17, 15, 26, 19. A Tier - 27, 10, 46, 21, 20, 7, 16, 41, 55. B Tier - 18, 24, 36, 48, 65, 58, 25, 63, 13, 11, 56, 29, 23, 9, 5, 8. C Tier - 40, 43, 28, 14, 70, 68, 57, 37, 30, 60, 54, 49, 47, 44, 38, 67, 59, 35, 6. F Tier - 52, 62, 66, 71, 64, 39, 51, 61, 32, 39, 42, 45, 33.|thumb|[OUTDATED, soon to be updated] Ebooone's tier list of EDOs 5-72, available at https://tiermaker.com/list/personal/numbers-0-100-15569788/3966935.]]
 I, at least currently, work strictly in [[EDO|'''edos''']]. I don't tend to go any higher than '''72edo''' in my own works, so here are my impressions of all the positive integer edos up to 72. Of course, the '''tier list''' above is subject to change in the future, as are all of the impressions on this page.
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 === [[1edo]] ===
-''Tier: '''N/A'''''[[File:1edo groove.mp3|none|thumb|1edo metal on E]]
+''Tier: '''F'''''[[File:1edo groove.mp3|none|thumb|1edo metal on E]]
 Honestly, can this one even be called an edo? I mean, "equal divisions of the octave" implies that the octave is divided. Anyway, this edo is pretty lame because the whole point of using different temperaments is to access certain melodic and harmonic properties, and this edo doesn't allow any of that. The only way to make this edo musical is through rhythm, dynamics, form, etc... stuff that isn't related to tuning.
+Although, technically there is some room for "melodic" expression if you allow yourself to use devices such as pitch bend. Or, perhaps you could use timbres that don't exactly settle on one pitch but clearly aren't unpitched either, like an old guitar string with wobbly harmonics. These "cheat codes" are partially what make one-note jazz solos so interesting, but of course the rest of the interest comes from the novelty of playing only one note amidst an electron cloud of dissonance. On its own, there really isn't much this tuning offers.
+At least it's better than [[0edo]].
 === [[2edo]] ===
-''Tier: '''N/A'''''
+''Tier: '''F'''''
 [[File:2edo groove.mp3|none|thumb|2edo "mischievous" on E and B♭]]
-This edo is literally just a tritone. And, in this case, it isn't really that great of a tritone. It's the 600¢ hemioctave tritone, the only one with no octave complement, so the melodic and harmonic capabilities of this tritone in isolation are pretty bare. That being said, this is the smallest edo with any dissonance, so that's a bonus.
+This edo is literally just a tritone. And, in this case, it's a rather interesting one. It's the 600¢ hemioctave tritone, the only one with no [[octave complement]]. So, while its melodic and harmonic capabilities in isolation are pretty bare, its symmetrical nature allows for some cool gimmicks. If instead it were, say, [[11/8]], that would open the possibility of using both 11/8 and [[16/11]], its octave complement. This would allow for greater melodic and harmonic possibilities, but at the expense of having a neat symmetrical tritone.
+To illustrate this tritone's nature, the demo for this edo is completely flipped on its head. If you listen carefully, you will notice that the pizzicato violins and celli play each other's part upside down in the second half of the loop. The gimmick is that this only affects contour, not the harmony. So yeah, that's pretty cool.
+Anyway, this edo isn't much. In fact, I can't honestly say it's any better than 1edo. In theory, there should be no reason to choose 1edo over 2edo, but how much does that one extra note really add in practice? At the end of the day, they are both just novelties.
 === [[3edo]] ===
 ''Tier: '''N/A'''''
 [[File:3edo groove.mp3|none|thumb|3edo "brumous" ambience on D augmented]]
-This edo is just an augmented triad, but specifically one that closes the octave and, as such, cannot be inverted. This means that, once again, the melodic and harmonic capabilities of this edo are pretty limited. Nothing much else to say.
+This edo is just an augmented triad, but specifically one that is derived by stacking 400¢ major thirds, meaning it closes the octave and, as such, cannot be inverted.
 === [[4edo]] ===