Scala
11 days ago
- #tuning
- #microtonal
- #music-software
- Scala is a software tool for experimenting with musical tunings, including just intonation, equal temperaments, and non-Western scales.
- It supports scale creation, editing, comparison, analysis, and tuning of electronic instruments, with MIDI file generation and conversion.
- Scala offers a flexible format for storing scales, allowing intervals to be entered as ratios or cents and mixed within a scale.
- It can create various types of scales, such as equal temperaments, Pythagorean scales, harmonic scales, and more.
- Many software synthesizers support the Scala scale file format for tuning, though not all synthesizers have microtuning support.
- Scala was created by Manuel Op de Coul and is freeware, available in English and Dutch, with no warranty.
- The tool includes a large library of freely available scales for analysis and music creation.