User:Flirora/EDO impressions

Anything I haven't listed are ones I haven't used enough to say anything about. And I haven't had that much experience with any EDO except 12, so take this with a grain of salt.

5edo - equipentatonic, sounds good for its size

7edo - equidiatonic, or if you prefer, "discount diatonic"

12edo - standard tuning in Western music, has the best support with instruments and software. P5 is great; m3 and M3 are relatively extreme. Highly composite number of steps, so there are a lot of symmetrical chords and scales, and there are only two intervals (plus inversions) that circle around all the notes.

15edo - 5edo with thrice the notes to approximate 5-intervals as well. Somewhat awkward to notate with 5ths notation. Lacks a good 9/8, making it sound somewhat unusual melodically. Not really a fan of the n2s, which are the building block of porcupine, but MODMOS scales based on it look interesting.

17edo - 3,1-diatonic. Has even more extreme thirds than 12edo. The m3 is closer to 7/6 than 6/5, making minor chords more consonant than major. Because of this, it's suitable for minor pieces.

19edo - 3,2-diatonic. Relatively washed-out feel. 2\19 isn't so effective as a leading tone, and 1\19 is verging on "too small" for me. Okay septimal intervals, but not as good as 31edo. That being said, it's relatively a small meantone EDO, and semaphore is interesting.

22edo - 4,1-diatonic. Relatively small EDO with good 3s and 5s. (Or at least one with a different relationship between them.) 7s are okay, but I'm not interested in 11 or higher. Haven't played much with this EDO because of the syntonic comma.

24edo - meh, the extra intervals don't seem very useful to me

31edo - 5,3-diatonic. Good all-around meantone temperament, if a little big. Not much of a point to go bigger than this.