User:CellularAutomaton/EDO impressions

1-4: uninteresting

5: very tangy, good structure. 5-form is important, but by nature 5edo loses most of the interesting properties of various 5-form scales

6: not bad actually, i like that it's attested in a lot of music

7: similar situation to 5, it's just dusty and rounded instead of spiky and sour.

8: there's cool stuff in 8-form but 8edo is just cluttered 6edo lowkey

9: never found reason to use this edo, never heard anything i liked in it

10: also better as a scale form than an edo, for me. but i know very little about 10edo actually

11: cold, clear, alien

12: actually really good. there's basically no world where the smallest edo to have a consonant 3/2 isn't important to some degree

13: dark, macabre

14: really cool i just wish 3/2 was better. very significant for having sin, neu & saj 3rds, i forget whether it's literally the first such edo but i like it for that reason, and because i've heard good music in it.

15: seems interesting but i haven't heard much in it

17: my beloveddd. big strong bright 3/2s, very cheerful quintal chords, a very suave sin7, lovely neu2nds, flavorful tritones. a well behaved glimpse of 2.3.7.11.13, and for JI sticklers we still have a nice 2.3.13.23

19: ehhh. in my book it's never worth sacrificing 3/2 for 5/4. 3/2 is just so fundamental and 5-limit stuff is really optional, you can take it or leave it

22: the diatonic is like, so terrible, and the 3/2 is severely sharp, but i think there is interesting stuff in here, just haven't tried it yet. you'll notice that i'm being harsher on larger edos for a lack of JI, this is because i don't see much of a point in using like 16+ notes and having to fight tooth and nail for consonance as if you were in a much smaller edo.

24: you're fighting against just returning to 12 at every turn and for most of the new sounds you would be better served by 17 or 19

26: much more charming than i would expect. i haven't done tons with it but i quite like it

29: probably next on my list to get familiar with once i'm comfortable with 17. seems nice

31: undeniably cool but the 3/2 is not awesome for me, i prefer a sharp 3/2 over flat

34: pretty nice, but getting big enough that you have to use a subset

41: beyond this point you're better off using free pitch or ji, imo. edos higher than this are theoretical objects