You must be 12 or above to enter this major!!

No under 12 is permitted!!

let's freaking gooooo

OH SHIT



I'll be real: I've said I'm doing stuff for X or Y major and then failing due to time constraints, and I'm not gonna promise anything for this one, but I'm really looking forward to everyone's entries

im gonna boil for doing a4=400hz

mind the updated info/rules, format, and voting categories! had a little administrative hiccup

PSA since it's a common misconception:
alternative tunings are a separate thing from alternative scales or modes -- although the two things often go well together!

Check out this thread for lots of great info and advice!
https://battleofthebits.com/academy/GroupThread/42545/

aw. mptm is gone :(

liek

GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ew, microtonal /j

....still 101% gonna (try and) participate tho

"just gotta learn... how to do non 12-edo...
yeah..."
> words of someone who has 0 idea how to edo in all software

excited for entries tho

one note per octave seems to be enough ough ugh gh h

rezources post

the way most tunable software handles tunings is that you load in some sort of scale file. the most common format is the scala scl file

- avoset's post helpfully mentions a starter pack

of these files, as well as scale workshop

, a web app for creating and exporting tunings. scl files can also be written in a regular text editor, or picked from the larger scale archive

that the scala project hosts

here are some free and cross-platform audio plugins with good microtuning support: decent sampler

(samples), dexed

(FM), odin 2

(subtractive), surge XT

(various), vital

(wavetable)

here are some tools for microtuning specific trackers/etc: 0CC-famitracker, LSDJ

, musescore

, sunvox

, VCV rack

here are some botb formats that i know have built-in microtuning support, in some way: bespoke, bytebeat, klangfreude, mptm, pd, pxtone (via ptcollab

), renoise (v3.5+), sid (via goattracker 2

). you could also ask sean about their microtonal it2moai script, or ask damifortune/doctorn0gloff/blower5 about the microtonal C700 fork

for snes. it's also possible to create custom mt32 voices that are microtonal

+ there's my own trackers osctet

and faunatone

& of course you don't have to follow this approach - you could also use fine pitch commands, midi pitch bends, scordatura, instruments from non-western music traditions, continuous-pitch instruments, or lean into the horrible upper-register tuning resolution of some crusty old soundchips, etc etc

let me know if i'm missing anything & i'll add it here!

https://jangler.github.io/osctet/

https://jangler.github.io/osctet/

https://jangler.github.io/osctet/

you like trackers? you like tunings and playing with rhythm and so many kinds of modulation?

https://jangler.github.io/osctet/

available for the price of $0.00 USD, no credit card required

with the "Please specify which tuning(s) you used in the description of your entry!"
if youre not sure what youre doing but all you know is that its not confirming to the standard 12 tone tuning, is it fine to not -have- to disclose/specify?

if you can't specify then please vaguepost your tuning instead!

i think the clause about tuning disclosure is just there because it can be fun to talk about tools and process, and not to discourage approaches that don't target a specific tuning concept

I also put it there in case people go "hey I like how this sounds, what is it?" and it's much easier to just check the description of the entry, going "ah, 11-limit just intonation" or "perfect, 23-EDO" etc. and listen with context (and maybe even go try it out yourself) rather than asking and waiting for a response

I just tried scl to xrni on Renoise, this looks brilliant!

this is very interesting! i might try it :D

thabks but my brain not smart enough

Can the Deflemask reference .txt files from Scale Workshop be used in Furnace?

my understanding is that furnace does not support or plan to support alternative tunings

well I guess you can still use some TIA chips on Furnace!

One thing I've done on Impulse/Schism Tracker is to copy a sample X times, manually adjusting the playback speed for each note, then bundle them all up in an instrument to make them playable.

renoise was updated with microtonal features today o_o,

auspicious

gosh everytime i try to make a chord with an alternative tuning it just sounds like a train horn

aw man no 5 per octave?
well I guess I could try something else

5 per octave like 5EDO? I think that's fine!
The rule "no subsets of 12EDO" just means not 2EDO, 3EDO, 4EDO, 6EDO, since those just have the same notes as 12-tone equal temperament. 5EDO would be great!

I, infact, did not submit shit as usual. I will try an 5EDO sometime later because i think my idea was neat

it's been a while; full speed ahead wanna do a live stream vote synclisten in about an hour at time of writing! at 3PM mountain time; 6PM Detroit here

voting on this treat of a major battle rn with the realization
that I'm way more into microtonals and alternative tunings than expected
so many good tunes on here, seriously
need to learn and play around even more with tunings

How tf did i even miss this 😅LOL.

I need to be on bbot more often 😢

Thank you gatorpearl for the battle idea, thank you Jangler for hosting it, and thanks for everyone who demonstrated the possibilities of non-chromatic music. This battle prompted me to look more into the topic, particularly some of the scales people used here.