User:CritDeathX/Sam's EDO Impressions

(if i say meh, then that just means i havent messed with it enough)

1 - The harmony of the cavemen. 2 - The worse harmony of the cavemen. 3 - Augmented chord. 4 - Diminished chord. It, surprisingly, has interesting melodic movement despite only being four notes. 5 - Equipentatonic. Nothing too original. 6 - Whole tone scale. Take out 4\6 and you have a pentatonic subset of the lydian dominant scale. 7 - Equiheptatonic. Again, nothing too original. 8 - First EDO with some kind of quarter tone interval. 9 - Cool approximation of 7/6. I also consider it something of the parent scale of gamelan music. 10 - The first actually usable EDO. Decent chords & decent melodic ideas. Sevish's Vidya is a good example of how it can sound. 11 - This is probably a good example of where you should use secundal harmony rather than tertial harmony. 12 - I probably shouldn't have listed this. 13 - Extremely dissonant, but at least the major chord sounds somewhat decent. Not much decent, but its better than nothing. 14 - Cool chords. People say that its really dissonant, but I don't hear anything out of the ordinary. 15 - Probably the most popular small EDO. Great chords, good approximation of 6/5, and supports some nice temperaments. Also I kinda introduced Weigel to a Hanson keyboard, and then he made it into his keyboard, so I feel a little happy about telling him about that. 16 - Chromatic version of 9EDO's mavila. Also cool approximation of 7/4. 17 - The smallest EDO with more consonant harmony than the previous ones. 18 - Nothing particularly interesting in this. 19 - The smallest EDO with a really nice meantone fifth. I consider this the smallest EDO to use if you want to make pop music into microtonal music. 20 - Nothing particularly interesting. 21 - Its cool, but again, nothing particularly interesting. 22 - Smallest cool superpyth EDO. I think there's orwell in there, too, but don't quote me on that. 23 - Hyperchromatic version of 9EDO's mavila. 24 - 12EDO, but fancy. 25 - Great approximation of 5/4, but its another hyperchromatic version of 9EDO's mavila. 26 - The step-sibling of the meantone series. Its twice of 13EDO though, so the closest approximation of 5/4 is still trash. 14/11 is cool, though, so lets use that. 27 - Amazing approximations of intervals like 7/6, 6/5, 5/4 (but its the same as 12EDO), 3/2, 5/3, and 7/4. Its weird how it manages to work this much with being a power of 3. 28 - Meh. 29 - Similar to 27EDO, but this is a bit better since the fifth is a little bit better compared to 27EDO. 30 - Meh. 31 - Meantone quarter tones. 32 - Same as 27 & 29EDO, but the fifth now is sharper than 27EDO. 33 - 11EDO, but with a better fifth. 34 - 17EDO, but now there's a good third. 35 - You either get 5EDO or 7EDO, there is no middle. 36 - 12EDO, but better. 37 - Same situation as 35EDO, but the 5EDO fifth is now just a superpyth fifth. Also good approximations of intervals. 38 - Meh. 39 - You either get mavila or superpyth, there is no middle. 40 - Meh. 41 - Smaller version of 53EDO. 42 - You either get 7EDO or superpyth, there is no middle. 43 - The other step-sibling of meantone. 44 - Meh. 45 - Meh. 46 - You either get 5EDO or 7EDO, but there is a middle. 47 - You either get 7EDO or superpyth, but there's a nice third. 48 - 12EDO, but more fancy. 49 - Meh. 50 - I consider this an optimal meantone EDO, due to a wealthy collection of notes here. 51 - Meh. 52 - Meh. 53 - JI: The Book.