Single-period MOS scales
Generators 8\15 and 7\15
Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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├───────┼──────┤
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1L 1s
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8, 7
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8:7
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├┼──────┼──────┤
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2L 1s
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7, 1
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7:1
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├┼┼─────┼┼─────┤
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2L 3s
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6, 1
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6:1
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├┼┼┼────┼┼┼────┤
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2L 5s (antidiatonic)
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5, 1
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5:1
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├┼┼┼┼───┼┼┼┼───┤
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2L 7s (balzano)
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4, 1
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4:1
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├┼┼┼┼┼──┼┼┼┼┼──┤
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2L 9s
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3, 1
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3:1
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├┼┼┼┼┼┼─┼┼┼┼┼┼─┤
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2L 11s
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2, 1
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2:1
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├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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15edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 9\15 and 6\15
Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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├────────┼─────┤
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1L 1s
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9, 6
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3:2
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├──┼─────┼─────┤
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2L 1s
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6, 3
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2:1
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├──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤
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5edo
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3, 3
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1:1
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Generators 10\15 and 5\15
Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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├─────────┼────┤
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1L 1s
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10, 5
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2:1
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├────┼────┼────┤
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3edo
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5, 5
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1:1
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Generators 11\15 and 4\15
Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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├──────────┼───┤
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1L 1s
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11, 4
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11:4
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├──────┼───┼───┤
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1L 2s
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7, 4
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7:4
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├──┼───┼───┼───┤
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3L 1s
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4, 3
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4:3
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├──┼──┼┼──┼┼──┼┤
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4L 3s (smitonic)
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3, 1
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3:1
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├─┼┼─┼┼┼─┼┼┼─┼┼┤
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4L 7s
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2, 1
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2:1
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├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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15edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 12\15 and 3\15
Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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├───────────┼──┤
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1L 1s
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12, 3
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4:1
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├────────┼──┼──┤
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1L 2s
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9, 3
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3:1
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├─────┼──┼──┼──┤
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1L 3s
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6, 3
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2:1
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├──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤
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5edo
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3, 3
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1:1
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Generators 13\15 and 2\15
Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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├────────────┼─┤
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1L 1s
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13, 2
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13:2
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├──────────┼─┼─┤
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1L 2s
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11, 2
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11:2
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├────────┼─┼─┼─┤
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1L 3s
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9, 2
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9:2
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├──────┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
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1L 4s
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7, 2
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7:2
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├────┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
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1L 5s (antimachinoid)
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5, 2
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5:2
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├──┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
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1L 6s (onyx)
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3, 2
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3:2
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├┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
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7L 1s (pine)
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2, 1
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2:1
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├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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15edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 14\15 and 1\15
Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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├─────────────┼┤
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1L 1s
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14, 1
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14:1
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├────────────┼┼┤
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1L 2s
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13, 1
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13:1
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├───────────┼┼┼┤
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1L 3s
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12, 1
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12:1
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├──────────┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 4s
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11, 1
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11:1
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├─────────┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 5s (antimachinoid)
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10, 1
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10:1
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├────────┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 6s (onyx)
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9, 1
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9:1
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├───────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 7s (antipine)
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8, 1
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8:1
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├──────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 8s (antisubneutralic)
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7, 1
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7:1
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├─────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 9s (antisinatonic)
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6, 1
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6:1
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├────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 10s
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5, 1
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5:1
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├───┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 11s
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4, 1
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4:1
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├──┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 12s
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3, 1
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3:1
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├─┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 13s
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2, 1
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2:1
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├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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15edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Multi-period MOS scales
3 periods
Generators 3\15 and 2\15
Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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├──┼─┼──┼─┼──┼─┤
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3L 3s (triwood)
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3, 2
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3:2
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├┼─┼─┼┼─┼─┼┼─┼─┤
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6L 3s (hyrulic)
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2, 1
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2:1
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├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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15edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 4\15 and 1\15
Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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├───┼┼───┼┼───┼┤
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3L 3s (triwood)
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4, 1
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4:1
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├──┼┼┼──┼┼┼──┼┼┤
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3L 6s (tcherepnin)
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3, 1
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3:1
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├─┼┼┼┼─┼┼┼┼─┼┼┼┤
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3L 9s
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2, 1
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2:1
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├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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15edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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5 periods
Generators 2\15 and 1\15
Step visualization
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MOS (name)
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Step sizes
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Step ratio
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├─┼┼─┼┼─┼┼─┼┼─┼┤
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5L 5s (pentawood)
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2, 1
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2:1
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├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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15edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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