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List and Description of Intonation Maps

Ingeneral,youshouldselectanonstandardintonationmapwhenyou’ replayingsimple

melodies(asopposedtochords)inaparticularmusicalstyle.Whenyouuseintonationmaps

basedonpentatonicscales,you’llnormallyplaypentatonicscalestomostaccuratelyreproduce

thosestyles.

Intonation Key (Int.Key)

Thissetsthetonic,orbasenotefromwhichthecurrentlyselectedintonationmapcalculatesits

intervals.IfyouselectGastheintonationkey,forexample,andtheintonationmapyouselect

tunestheminor2nddownby50cents,thenG

willbeaquartertoneflatrelativetoequal

intonation.IfyouchangetheintonationkeytoD,thenD

willbeaquartertoneflat.Ifyouuse

nonstandardintonations,you’llwanttosetInt.Keytothekeyyou’replayingin.IftheIntonation

parameterissettoEqual,changingInt.Keyhasnoeffect.

0 None No intonation map is used, intonation is equal but cannot be edited.

1 Equal No detuning of any intervals. The standard for modern western music.

2 Classic Just Tunings are defined based on the ratios of the frequencies between intervals.

The original tuning of Classical European music.

3 Just Flat 7th Similar to classic Just, but with the Dominant 7th flatted an additional 15 cents.

4 Harmonic The perfect 4th, Tritone, and Dominant 7th are heavily flatted.

5 Just Harmonic Approximation of a historical intonation.

6 Werkmeister Named for its inventor, Andreas Werkmeister. It’s fairly close to equal

temperament, and was developed to enable transposition with less dissonance.

7 1/5th Comma Approximation of a historical intonation based on the comma system.

8 1/4th Comma Approximation of a historical intonation based on the comma system.

9 Indian Raga Based on the tunings for traditional Indian music.

10 Arabic Oriented toward the tunings of Mid-Eastern music.

11 BaliJava1 Based on the pentatonic scale of Balinese and Javanese music.

12 BaliJava2 A variation on 1Bali/Java, slightly more subtle overall.

13 BaliJava3 A more extreme variation.

14 Tibetan Based on the Chinese pentatonic scale.

15 CarlosAlpha Developed by Wendy Carlos, an innovator in microtonal tunings, this intonation

map flats each interval increasingly, resulting in an octave with quarter-tone

intervals.

16 Pyth/aug4 This is a Pythagorean tuning, based on the Greek pentatonic scale. The tritone

is 12 cents sharp.

17 Pyth/dim5 This is a Pythagorean tuning, based on the Greek pentatonic scale. The tritone

is 12 cents flat.

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