User:Cmloegcmluin/EPD

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An EPD, or equal pitch division, is a kind of arithmetic and monotonic tuning.

n-EDp: n equal (pitch) divisions of interval p (e.g. 12-EDO) (equivalent to rank-1 temperament of p/n)

The most common example of this type of tuning is 12-EDO, standard tuning, which takes the interval of the octave, and equally divides its pitch into 12 parts. For long, we could call this 12-EPDO, for 12 equal pitch divisions of the octave (whenever pitch is the chosen kind of quality, we can assume it, and skip pointing it out; that's why 12-EDO is the better name).

example: 4-EDO = rank-1 temperament w/ generator 300¢ = APS⁴√2 ≈ APS1.189
quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
frequency 1.00 1.19 1.41 1.68 2.00 2.38 2.83 3.36 4.00
pitch 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 1.25 1.50 1.75 2.00
length 1.00 0.84 0.71 0.59 0.50 0.42 0.35 0.30 0.25