Single-period MOS scales
Generators 9\16 and 7\16
| 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, 7
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9:7
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| ├─┼──────┼──────┤
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2L 1s
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7, 2
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7:2
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| ├─┼─┼────┼─┼────┤
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2L 3s
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5, 2
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5:2
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| ├─┼─┼─┼──┼─┼─┼──┤
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2L 5s (antidiatonic)
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3, 2
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3:2
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| ├─┼─┼─┼─┼┼─┼─┼─┼┤
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7L 2s (armotonic)
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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16edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 11\16 and 5\16
| 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, 5
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11:5
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| ├─────┼────┼────┤
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1L 2s
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6, 5
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6:5
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| ├┼────┼────┼────┤
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3L 1s
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5, 1
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5:1
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| ├┼┼───┼┼───┼┼───┤
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3L 4s (mosh)
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4, 1
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4:1
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| ├┼┼┼──┼┼┼──┼┼┼──┤
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3L 7s (sephiroid)
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3, 1
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3:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼─┼┼┼┼─┼┼┼┼─┤
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3L 10s
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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16edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 13\16 and 3\16
| 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, 3
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13:3
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| ├─────────┼──┼──┤
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1L 2s
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10, 3
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10:3
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| ├──────┼──┼──┼──┤
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1L 3s
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7, 3
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7:3
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| ├───┼──┼──┼──┼──┤
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1L 4s
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4, 3
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4:3
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| ├┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤
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5L 1s (machinoid)
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3, 1
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3:1
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| ├┼┼─┼┼─┼┼─┼┼─┼┼─┤
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5L 6s
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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16edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 15\16 and 1\16
| 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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15, 1
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15:1
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| ├─────────────┼┼┤
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1L 2s
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14, 1
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14:1
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| ├────────────┼┼┼┤
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1L 3s
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13, 1
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13:1
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| ├───────────┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 4s
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12, 1
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12:1
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| ├──────────┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 5s (antimachinoid)
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11, 1
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11:1
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| ├─────────┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 6s (onyx)
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10, 1
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10:1
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| ├────────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 7s (antipine)
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9, 1
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9:1
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| ├───────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 8s (antisubneutralic)
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8, 1
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8:1
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| ├──────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 9s (antisinatonic)
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7, 1
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7:1
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| ├─────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 10s
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6, 1
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6:1
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| ├────┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 11s
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5, 1
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5:1
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| ├───┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 12s
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4, 1
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4:1
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| ├──┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 13s
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3, 1
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3:1
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| ├─┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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1L 14s
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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16edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Multi-period MOS scales
2 periods
Generators 5\16 and 3\16
| 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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2L 2s
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5, 3
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5:3
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| ├─┼──┼──┼─┼──┼──┤
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4L 2s (citric)
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3, 2
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3:2
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| ├─┼─┼┼─┼┼─┼─┼┼─┼┤
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6L 4s (lemon)
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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16edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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Generators 7\16 and 1\16
| 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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2L 2s
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7, 1
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7:1
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| ├─────┼┼┼─────┼┼┤
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2L 4s (malic)
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6, 1
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6:1
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| ├────┼┼┼┼────┼┼┼┤
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2L 6s (subaric)
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5, 1
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5:1
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| ├───┼┼┼┼┼───┼┼┼┼┤
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2L 8s (jaric)
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4, 1
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4:1
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| ├──┼┼┼┼┼┼──┼┼┼┼┼┤
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2L 10s
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3, 1
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3:1
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| ├─┼┼┼┼┼┼┼─┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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2L 12s
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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16edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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4 periods
Generators 3\16 and 1\16
| 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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4L 4s (tetrawood)
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3, 1
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3:1
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| ├─┼┼┼─┼┼┼─┼┼┼─┼┼┤
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4L 8s
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2, 1
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2:1
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| ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
|
16edo
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1, 1
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1:1
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