Gallery of 12-tone tempered scales

Map your chosen scale to a standard Halberstadt keyboard and you are on your way!

Shape-based

MOS scales

• blackbirds12 – Blackbirds[12] in 82\180 tuning
• diminished12 – Diminished[12] in 44edo
• flattone12 – Flattone[12] in 13-limit POTE tuning
• mavila-eb – Mavila[12] in f^4-10f+10 equal beating tuning and meantone order
  • Hopper by Singer-Medora-White-Smith; At The Hop in f^4-10f+10 mavila
• Meantone(12) – because tradition must be respected
• pajara12 – Pajara[12] in POTE tuning
• ratwolf – Eleven fifths of (418/5)^(1/11) and one 20/13 wolf
• 12-22a – Superpyth[12] in 22edo: Paul Erlich, TL 4-4-2000
• 12-27 – Augene[12] in 27edo: Herman Miller's Galticeran scale

MODMOS scales

• igliashon – Meantone MODMOS created for Igliashon Jones in 74et
• keenan – Fokker/Keenan meantone MODMOS in 31et
• meteoroid – Andrew Heathwaite's meantone MODMOS, 31et tuning
  • Andrew’s 12 of 31 for Flute and Harp by Chris Vaisvil
• wilson gh50 – Golden Horagram nr.50: 7phi+2 / 17phi+5
• 12-22h – Pajara MODMOS: Hexachordal 12-tone scale in 22-tET

Hobbits

• archytas12, archytas12synch
  • 12 archytas hobbits with ale by Chris Vaisvil
  • Portrait of a Tragedy (Death of a Son) - Archytas12 sync Study 3^{[dead link]} by Joel Taylor
• ares12
• jubilismic12
• marvel12
• minerva12
• nakika12
• starling12
• thrush12
• unimarv12

EDO subsets

(Only added to this subheading if it doesn't belong under another subheading.)

• elevenplus – 11edo plus the 22edo fifth
• eagle 53 – 12 of 53edo
• mixed-quarters – Chris Vaisvil's 24edo scale
  • The Bitter Bride and Dancing in Plasticine Grass by Chris Vaisvil
• Werntz Nocturne Scale: 4 2 2 4 4 2 2 4 4 2 2 4 (described by Julia Werntz, 36edo subset, polymicrotonal scale of 6edo + 9edo)
• 12-Adams – 12 out of 72-TET scale by Prent Rodgers
  • Pomp & Parade #19^{[dead link]}, by Prent Rodgers
  • Shews #15^{[dead link]}, by Prent Rodgers
• 12-tone 5&16edo scale: 5 9 4 5 7 8 8 7 5 4 9 5 (polymicrotonal 80edo subset)
• 12-tone 8&10edo scale: 10 6 4 4 8 8 8 8 4 4 6 10 (polymicrotonal 80edo subset)
• 12-tone 8&20edo scale: 4 6 10 4 8 8 8 8 4 10 6 4 (polymicrotonal 80edo subset)

Temperament-based

Marvel tempered scales

• centmarv – marvel tempered centaur – (and meandin)
• dekany-cs-marv – unimarv tempered dekany-cs
• hahn12marv – marvel tempered hahn12
• hexymarv – marvel tempered hexy
• highschool1uni – unimarv tempered first highschool scale
• highschool2uni – unimarv tempered second highschool scale
• linemarv12
• marveldene – the all-weather marvel-tempered duodene
• prismarv – marvel tempering of prism – (and diadie1)
• prisun – unimarv tempered pris
• pump12_1
  • Pump1 by Chris Vaisvil
• pump12_2
• sixtetwoo
  • Music in sixtetwoo
• smithgw tetra

Other regular temperament-based scales

• biggulp-bunya – biggulp tempered in POTE-tuned 13-limit bunya
• bihexanymyna – myna tempered bihexany
• breedball3-miracle – breedball3 tempered in POTE-tuned 11-limit miracle
• blueji-cataclysmic – blueji tempered in 13-limit POTE-tuned cataclysmic
• CPS (1 of 3 5 9 11 15 19 25 27 29 33 37 41) tempered to 435zpi
• CPS (11 of 3 5 9 11 15 19 25 27 29 33 37 41) tempered to 435zpi
• duohexmean – meantone tempered duohex
• freiseed – Jake Freivald's starling scale
  • A Seed Planted by Jake Freivald
• glumma-hendec – glumma tempered in 13-limit POTE-tuned hendec
• hexanys-valentino – hexanys tempered in 13-limit POTE-tuned valentino
• hexy-miraculous – hexy in 13-limit POTE-tuned miraculous
• malco – malcolm tempered in malcolm temperament, 94et tuning
• novadene – starling tempered duodene skew
• parapyth12 – A triple Fokker block of the 2.3.7.11.13 temperament called "parapyth"
  • Organ, by Chris Vaisvil
• Peppermint-24 subsets
  • peppermint12chain - 12 of Peppermint-24
  • salt&pepper - another 12 of Peppermint-24
  • ketchup&mustard - another 12 of Peppermint-24
• plum – 46 equal tempered 686/675 pump scale
• shoal quasi-chromatic – 12 of shoal17
• simp12hitch – simp12 – tempered in hitchcock, 99edo tuning
• stelhex-catakleismic – stelhex tempered in 13-limit POTE-tuned catakleismic
• tapek-ribbon – Eq-diff ribbon extension of Superpyth, made of two Tapek sequences
• tunbar12 – 625/624, 1000/999 tempered duodene_skew – and its alteration
• vinodene – 726/725, 1045/1044, 1089/1088, and 1216/1215 – tempered duodene
• vicinodene – 7425/7424 tempered duodene
• wooster12 – 576/575, 2001/2000 tempered (6/5)(5/4) (skewed) duodene
• wooster12a – its strictly proper alteration (additionally tempered by 1216/1215)
• yekta-cataclysmic – yekta tempered in 13-limit POTE-tuned cataclysmic
• 12highschool2-miracle – 12highschool2 tempered in 11-limit POTE-tuned miracle
• 12highschool1-rodan – 12highschool1 tempered in 13-limit POTE-tuned rodan

Tempered subgroup scales

• cantonpenta – 352/351 and 364/363 tempered 2.3.11/7.13/7 subgroup scale
  • Jake Freivald "Cantonese Bagatelle"
• landscape12 – 729/728, 1275/1274, 2025/2023 tempered 2.3.5.7.13.17 subgroup scale
• landscape12a – 1701/1700, 2025/2023, 2176/2175 tempered 2.3.5.7.17.29 subgroup scale
• omahat – 243/242 tempered 2.3.11 subgroup scale
• unimajorpenta – 896/891 tempered 2.3.11/7 subgroup scale

Circulating temperaments & circles of intervals

• bifrost – Six meantone fifths, four pure fifths
• cauldron – Circulating scale with two pure 9/7 thirds
  • For the Unknown Children of Tuam, Galway by Chris Vaisvil
• corrette2 – Michel Corrette, modified meantone temperament (1753)
• couperin – Couperin modified meantone
• grail – Holy Grail circulating scale
• johnson-secor rwt – Aaron Krister Johnson and George Secor's equal-beating rational well temperament
• johnson-temp – Aaron Krister Johnson, circulating temperament based on 5/4, 24/19, 19/15 backbone
• kirnberger – Kirnberger III, letter to Forkel 1779
• mounos – Mounos extended fifths -c sequence, quasi-septimal minor diatonic scale
• ozancirc – Ozan Yarman's 159-equal circulating scale
• qcmte84a – Margo Schulter temperament extraordinaire
• rainbow – rainbow/meanquarw3 modified 1/4-comma meantone
• secor_wt10 – Secor's 12-tone well-temperament, proportional beating
• soria – 12 from a 17-notes cycle, equal-beating extended fifths (705.57 c.) sequence
• sireine f – Sequence of 11 Sireine low meantone fifths (exactly 691.2348426 c.) from F
• werck3 – Andreas Werckmeister's temperament III
• vallotti – Vallotti & Young scale (Vallotti version)
• val-werck
• young2 – Thomas Young well temperament no.2 (1799)

Others

• blue
  • Chris Vaisvil "Perseverance"
• baran – Shaahin Mohajeri's Baran scale
• ifbis – Ifbis -c 12 tones sequence (not traditional)
• ligon – Jacky Ligon's strictly proper all-prime scale
• millerop
• rast matrix – Neutral third sequence, approximates Rast on white keys and other maqamat
• raven – John O'Sullivan's raven scale
  • Raven Explore by Chris Vaisvil
• raven2 – John O'Sullivan's raven2 scale
  • Psalm 4 in Dorian mode of Raven 2 Tuning by Chris Vaisvi
• sumer – Neutral diatonic soft Rast-like scale with Ishku -c variations