List of music software: Difference between revisions

*[http://www.tallkite.com/alt-tuner.html Alt-tuner] – tuning plug-in that does adaptive tunings, on-the-fly retuning, and scale analysis by Kite Giedraitis

* [https://csound.github.io/ Csound] (→ [[Csound]] and [[Wikipedia: Csound]]).

** [https://blue.kunstmusik.com/ Blue] – composition environment and frontend for Csound with python-based scripting capabilities.

** [https://www.untwelve.org/microcsound MicroCsound] – Python-based front-end to Csound specifically geared to microtonal composition ([http://www.untwelve.org/static/microcsound/tutorial.txt tutorial]).

** [http://rationale.sourceforge.net/ Rationale] – open-source just intonation sequencer based on Csound and Python.

* [https://www.celemony.com Melodyne] – commercial audio software with editing and analysis functions for scales and tunings.

* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/mutabor/ Mutabor] – open-source dynamic microtuner, allowing mutable and static scales and tunings using flexible language developed for musicians with GUI ([http://schlemmersoft.de/en/Mutabor%20tutorial tutorial]).

* [http://schismata.net/ Schismata] – musical composition tool in any user defined tuning. Supports polyrhythms, tuning changes in real-time, sliding notes, instrument design.

* [https://www.kvraudio.com/product/soundmodeler-by-soundmodeler SoundModeler] – free sound modeling application. Exports audio files and Halion multisamples. The note pitch is transposed in accordance with chosen temperament (equal, Pythagorean, just or meantone 1/4 comma) in the settings.

* [https://supercollider.github.io SuperCollider] – programming language for sound, possibility of user-defined synths, no restrictions for xenharmony

* [http://timidity.sourceforge.net/ TiMidity++] (→ [[Wikipedia: TiMidity++]])

* [https://jird.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Jird] – a language for writing and hearing music in just intonation using ratios to express frequencies, durations, and volumes.

* [https://www.weresocool.org/ WereSoCool] – a language for composing microtonal music

* [https://xenharmlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html Xenharmlib] – A python music theory library for the exploration and research of microtonality, diatonic set theory, non-standard notations, and many more.

=== Browser-based ===

* [[Xenpaper]] – text-based microtonal sequencer, like a notepad. Write down musical ideas and share the link around

* [https://autotel.co/forbidden-music/ forbidden-music] – piano roll which is not quantized in the vertical axis, and offers a few tuning rules in the form of "snaps" to create harmony

== Software instruments ==

* [http://www.jhhl.net/iPhone/Droneo/ Droneo] – 8-voice polyphonic droning iPhone app, defines intervals in just ratios, equal divisions of an interval, or interactively with a tone spiral. Sounds nice, too.

* [https://maxis.cool/frex Frequency Explorer] – browser-based synthesizer + sequencer with precisely-configurable musical scale and harmonic spectrum.

* [https://www.moforte.com/ GeoShred] – iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales.

* [https://sjoerdvisscher.glitch.me/keyboard/ Hexagonal Keyboard Demo] by Sjoerd Visscher

* [https://hpi.zentral.zone/microsynth Microsynth] – microtonal soundfont synthesizer for macOS and Windows

* [[User:SAKryukov #Microtonal Fabric|Microtonal Fabric]] – web-browser based microtonal music platform, a framework for building universal or customized microtonal musical keyboard instruments, microtonal experiments and computing, music study, and teaching music lessons with possible remote options

* [https://offtonic.com/synth Offtonic Microtonal Synthesizer] – a JavaScript browser app that lets you play around with tunings.

* [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orphion/id495465097?mt=8 Orphion] – iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales.

* [https://academo.org/demos/19-tet-keyboard/ Online 19-edo keyboard]

* [http://fritzo.org/keys/#style=piano Rational Keyboard] – JI keyboard with keys that grow in size

* [https://sonic-pi.net/ Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone] – besides ''Live Coding'', you can also record to WAV format, microtonal capabilities are provided through adding decimals to MIDI numbers.

* [https://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ SunVox Modular Music Studio] – modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker), available for desktop (free of cost) and mobile devices (for approx. $6). [https://youtu.be/UJXEsfbUvvs Changing the musical scale in SunVox (video)]

* [http://terpstrakeyboard.com/play-it-now/ Terpstra Keyboard] – cross-platform web app that allows mapping of any tuning (in Scala format) on any form of generalized hexagonal layout. Settings are stored in the address bar for easy sharing.

* [https://www.thumbjam.com/ ThumbJam] – iPad/iPhone touch-to-play app with customizable layout and scales. It can open any .scl (Scala) files.

* [http://www.toverlamp.org/static/wickisynth/wickisynth.html Wickisynth] – tuning demo synthesizer with Wicki-Hayden key layout

* [https://www.microsoft.com/p/xenharmonic-keyboard/9ppbl2brsk6z Xenharmonic Keyboard] – Windows-only isomorphic microtonal MIDI keyboard.

* [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave] – free, open source equivalent to MATLAB; useful for working with matrices and much more

* [http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php Online LaTeX Equation Editor] – create mathematical expressions in LaTeX format for wiki pages etc.

* [http://www.wolframalpha.com Wolfram Alpha] – perform a variety of intensive mathematical calculations in your browser

** [[Wolfram Alpha Regular Temperament Widgets]]

== Notation software ==

* [http://moinejf.free.fr/ abcm2ps] – free, open-source, ASCII-based editor with support for some microtonal accidentals.

* [http://www.lilypond.org Lilypond] – free, open-source, outstanding notation software that produces beautiful engraving-quality output on a par with commercial applications like Sibelius.  

** Thanks to the [http://x31eq.com/lilypond/ work of Graham Breed], can use [[Sagittal notation|Sagittal]] glyphs.

** With the [http://www.ekmelic-music.org/en/software/ekmelily.htm Ekmelily] {{Dead link}} extension, it can support several other notation styles, namely Tartini, Richter Herf/Madel and Sims

* [http://www.computermusicnotation.com/ MaxScore] – a Java object for Max/MSP. It is based on Nick Didkovsky's JMSL which natively supports quarter-tone notation, but is capable of playing back microtonal music with unlimited precision. In the most recent version of MaxScore, microMaps have been implemented in the score canvas that allow the display of microtonal inflections in any kind of notation system provided that a font exists to represent those inflections. So far, microMaps for 48TET and 72TET exist. It is planned to develop an standalone editor which doesn't require any Max programming expertise.

* [http://www.mus2.com.tr/en/ Mus2] – microtonal score editor with intonationally-correct playback. It allows the retuning of staves and import of symbols from graphics files and fonts to be used as accidentals.

** [https://www.steinberg.net/dorico/ Dorico] – expensive but a leading notation software with full support with the same method as Mus2 above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaadFpqm3-U

* [https://musescore.org/ MuseScore] – open-source notation software. See [[MuseScore]] for the dedicated page.

** Can be microtuned with the [https://github.com/euwbah/musescore-microtonal-edo-plugin retuner plugin for almost any edo].

== Software plugins (VST etc.) ==

: ''See [[List of Microtonal Software Plugins]]''

: ''See [[Programming]]''

* [https://www.nongnu.org/lingot/ LINGOT] for GNU/Linux – free software, universal tuner that supports [[Scala]] files

** [https://lingot.gitara.org.pl/ LINGOT for Windows] – third-party port of LINGOT

* [https://euwbah.github.io/mu-tune/ mu-tune] – by euwbah, browser-based, supports all [[equal tuning]]s and their subsets

* [https://microtonal-tuner.onrender.com/ Wilckerson Ganda's Microtonal Tuner] – Wilckerson Ganda's tuner for all EDOs and EDONOIs

== Tuning manipulation software ==

* [https://github.com/FloraCanou/temperament_evaluator Flora Canou's Temperament Evaluator] – [[User:FloraC|FloraC]] wrote this set of Python scripts to compute [[TE tuning|TE tunings]], [[Badness|badnesses]], [[Optimal patent val|optimal patent vals]], etc.

* [https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ Scala] (→ [[Scala]] and [[Wikipedia: Scala (software)]]) – the ''de facto'' standard software for creating, manipulating and analyzing tunings

** Instructions for [[Creating Scala scl files for rank two temperaments]]

** [http://12equalboresme.com/ Scala Microtuners for Kontakt and SynthEdit] which enable real-time scale or key change for an ensemble of soft synths by means of note events on designated midi channels

* [https://github.com/maxwellpollack/scalemap Scalemap] – drop-in microtonal note-to-frequency mapping functionality for C, C++, and Javascript

* [http://tonalsoft.com/tonescape.aspx Tonescape] – music composition, analysis and educational tool by Joe Monzo

* [http://robertinventor.com/software/tunesmithy/music.htm Tune Smithy] by [[Robert Walker]]

* [https://hpi.zentral.zone/ute Universal Tuning Editor] – create, import, edit, convert, map to any keyboard geometry, retune in real time, etc.

* [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wilsonic/id848852071?mt=8 Wilsonic] – an iPad/iPhone app for exploring alternative scales (see it in action: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZ6VE6E_uE the source file 3 – YouTube]): built on the works of [[Erv Wilson]]

* [https://github.com/Woyten/tune tune] – Explore musical tunings and create synthesizer tuning files for microtonal scales

* [https://colorhorizons.com/ Color Horizons] – scale generator and synthesizer by [[Jon Lervold]]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20230326034951/http://micro.soonlabel.com/Scott_Thompson/edjiruler.html Edjiruler v0.0.1] – visualize JI intervals close to equal divisions of whole numbers

* [http://www.mikebattagliamusic.com/HE-JS/HE.html Mike Battaglia's Harmonic Entropy Calculator] – interactive [[harmonic entropy]] curves.

* [https://jeremiahgoyette.com/calculators/ Jeremiah Goyette's Music Calculators]

* [http://www.chord-book.com/microtonal/scale_intervals_calculator.php JI Scale Interval Calculator] – Shows a list of all JI intervals in your JI scale

* [http://ia801408.us.archive.org/1/items/mosedo.html/mosedo.html?p=12&g=5 MOSedo] – [[MOS scale|moments of symmetry]] in equal divisions of the octave calculator

* [https://www.ambientesoterica.com/conv_calc.html Music Maker Calculator] – collection of small xenharmonic calculator gadgets by [[Ambient Esoterica]]

* [http://musictheory.zentral.zone/huntsystemcalc.html Online H-System Calculators] – Hunt Intonation Quality Grade Point Average (IQGPA) Calculator

* [https://www.projectivetuningspace.com Projective Tuning Space Interactive Application]

* [https://scala2mts.vercel.app/ Scala2MTS] – Scala file to MIDI Tuning Standard SysEx converter, written by Olle Holmberg

* [http://micro.soonlabel.com/Scott_Thompson/r2rtg.html Scott Thompson's Rank 2 Regular Temperament Generator] – a web app to generate rank 2 regular temperaments

* [https://scaleworkshop.plainsound.org/ Scale Workshop] – scale-creation site by [[Lumi Pakkanen]]. Allows playing via QWERTY computer keyboard. Can also export .scl and .kbm files.

** [https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop1/ Legacy version]

* [http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-centsratio.htm Seng Piel's Audio Cents to Ratio Calculator] (also converts to other units too)

** Also, [http://robertinventor.com/software/tunesmithy/help/cents_and_ratios.htm another one] with extensive instructions

* [https://sintel.pythonanywhere.com/ Temperament Calculator] by [[User:Sintel|Sintel]]

* [https://suonoterapia.org/sound-of-color/ The Sound of Color] – listen to the sonification of colors as pitches transposed to the audible range and of color pairs as intervals

* [http://www.jhhl.net/tonespiral.html Tonespiral] – listen to harmonics visualized as a spiral

* [http://www.untwelve.org/static/javascript_demos/MOSring.html Untwelve.org animated MOS ring demo]

* [https://untwelve.org/interval_calc Untwelve.org interval calculator] – online interval calculator tool, shows linear fraction and EDO fraction expansions, too

* [http://x31eq.com/temper/ x31eq Temperament Finder] by [[Graham Breed]]

* [https://www.yacavone.net/xen-calc/ Xen-calc] – interval calculator that translates to/from ratios, cents, FJS and color notation, much more too.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180920184435/http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Just%20Intonation%20-%3E%20EDO%20calculator Xenharmonic Wiki interval calculator] – online interval calculator tool, shows linear fraction and EDO fraction expansions, too

* [https://johnvalentine.co.uk/app/xetune/app.html XeTune] – tuning manipulation web app by John Valentine

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/spaa3c3yik Basic waveforms – sine wave harmonics]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/ivhjhwykvl Cent error of 3 harmonics]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/eiterjptig Cents to JI]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/xxkhgyrcym Compare harmonics to EDOs]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/0ple0quvkd Diatonic Scale Explorer] – visualize the diatonic scale with different sizes of fifths

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/sidygvcjet Octave harmonics proximity to EDO (circle)]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/3xpdewiqun Octave intervals]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/4ecaig9vkp Patent val monzo mappings]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/etryqmkqxk Pitch circle]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/avzatq2itb Rank 1 temperaments close to specific JI]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qab5kzc6ey Temps within ED#]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/h08zeml3lm Visualization of isomorphic key mappings]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/0za9hshqah What EDOs have generator sizes/interval ranges]

* [https://www.desmos.com/calculator/dstp7wnidf Zeta in Desmos]

==== Scratch.mit.edu ====

* [https://hpi.zentral.zone/cse Custom Scale Editor] – at one time the most widely used tuining app after Scala, replaced by [https://hpi.zentral.zone/ute Universal Tuning Editor]

* [http://www.mindspring.com/~alanh/fracs.html Fast Decimal to Fraction Approximations] {{Dead link}}

* [http://microtone.isans.net/ Microtone] {{Dead link}} – HTML5 uniform keyboard demo with any equal temperament

* [http://www.microtonalsoftware.com/MicrotonalSoftware.com] {{Dead link}}

** [http://www.microtonalsoftware.com/scale-tree.html ET Scale Tree Playground] {{Dead link}}

* [http://the-monochord.rhcloud.com/The Monochord] {{Dead link}} – try out just intervals from a base frequency.

* [https://suonoterapia.org/overtones/Overtones spiral] {{Dead link}} – listen to harmonics 1-16 visualized as a spiral

** Scala (SCL) to TUN and MTS online converter {{Dead link}}

* [https://www.tuningvine.com/Tuning Vine] {{Dead link}} – an interface for just intonation, with a color-coded lattice.

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