Gallery of 12-tone tempered scales

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

MOS scales

  • Meantone(12) – because tradition must be respected
  • ratwolf – Eleven fifths of (418/5)^(1/11) and one 20/13 wolf
  • 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
  • pajara12 – Pajara[12] in POTE tuning
  • 12-22a – Superpyth[12] in 22edo: Paul Erlich, TL 4-4-2000
  • 12-27 – Augene[12] in 27edo: Herman Miller's Galticeran scale
  • diminished12 – Diminished[12] in 44edo
  • flattone12 – Flattone[12] in 13-limit POTE tuning
  • blackbirds12 – Blackbirds[12] in 82\180 tuning

Marvel tempered scales

Other temperament tempered scales

Hobbits

Tempered subgroup scales

Lesfip scales and other optimizations

Linear recurrence scales, rational intonation, etc

  • tapek-ribbon – Eq-diff ribbon extension of Superpyth, made of two Tapek sequences
  • soria – 12 from a 17-notes cycle, equal-beating extended fifths (705.57 c.) sequence
  • mounos – Mounos extended fifths -c sequence, quasi-septimal minor diatonic scale
  • ifbis – Ifbis -c 12 tones sequence (not traditional)
  • sireine f – Sequence of 11 Sireine low meantone fifths (exactly 691.2348426 c.) from F
  • sumer – Neutral diatonic soft Rast scale with Ishku -c variations
  • rast matrix – Neutral third sequence, Rast on white keys and other maqamat
  • baran – Shaahin Mohajeri's Baran scale
  • ligon – Jacky Ligon's strictly proper all-prime scale

MODMOS

Circulating fifths

  • werck3 – Andreas Werckmeister's temperament III
  • vallotti – Vallotti & Young scale (Vallotti version)
  • kirnberger – Kirnberger III, letter to Forkel 1779
  • young2 – Thomas Young well temperament no.2 (1799)
  • corrette2 – Michel Corrette, modified meantone temperament (1753)
  • couperin – Couperin modified meantone
  • qcmte84a – Margo Schulter temperament extraordinaire
  • rainbow – rainbow/meanquarw3 modified 1/4-comma meantone
  • grail – Holy Grail circulating scale
  • bifrost – Six meantone fifths, four pure fifths
  • cauldron – Circulating scale with two pure 9/7 thirds
  • secor_wt10 – Secor's 12-tone well-temperament, proportional beating
  • ozancirc – Ozan Yarman's 159-equal 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