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Microtonal Music Software

 

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Li’l Miss’ Scale Oven IntervalCalc Calculator Nuscale Dynamic Retuner
decorationGot to the point in your music where ordinary scales just won’t do? Trying to navigate all the different retuning standards on all your synths can be really confusing. Don’t speak hexadecimal? All the scales you’ve tried to make sound like gibberish? Wish you could analyze what makes a tuning sound cohesive? Where do you go next?

X. J. Scott has attacked those annoying problems as a composer too. His solution? Amazing new creative software tools!

These are tuning tools that make sense musically, without compromise. Easy to use? Yes. Deep and powerful? Of course! How did those two things get resolved? Simple — these tools were designed from the ground up and created by a musician who actually uses the software to create real music. None of the development was overseen by committees of suits who consider themselves talented musicians because they hit the karoke bars every weekend with their boss.

We know the difference between a gamelan and a rinkelbaum. You may discover that the plethora of useful and creative features allow you to make your synth do things that were never intended!

Our goal is to enable composers to effectively and expressively harness the incredible dimension of pitch and tuning in their work. Excellent software and first class customer support are the means through which this goal is accomplished.

Top Ten Reasons to Believe
1 Mac-like fit and finish
2 Compatibility with other programs
3 Integration between Xenharmonic Kitchen programs
4 Start and complete projects quickly
5 Use the Right Tools
6 Get more out of your scales
7 Create brilliant musical colors and tuning systems
8 Effortless tuning editing and management
9 Manage your time more effectively
10 Tightly integrated tuning conversion application
Xenharmonic Kitchen
A suite of applications to help visualize, analyze, understand, comprehend, appreciate and compose in tuning systems, both comfortable traditional tunings and astonishing new tunings as yet unheard.

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  • Create, use and play scales that sound good — easily.
  • Ethnic tunings, nonoctave scales, natural intonations, experimental and historical scales — all treated uniformly.
  • Real-time retuning of wide variety of instruments through MIDI.
     
  • Numerical editing and Graphical display of scale using equal-divisions, cents or ratios. Dissonance Gauge
  • See the intervals you are playing as you play them.
  • Create and interact with tunings just like with an acoustic instrument, by ear, even tweaking intonation of individual notes during a live performance if desired.
  • Analyze consonance and dissonance of a scale using a perceptual model of hearing.
  • Iteratively and Interactively Quantize scales to closest matches of just and equal-temperaments within desired degree of match using the intuitive IQ Scale Editing Module.
  • Knead & Fold Kitchen Appliance — the easy to use Scale Editing Module for effortlessly creating meantone, MOS, and linear scales.
  • Waffle Iron — fun and versatile appliance for making symmetrical just intonation and rational scales, tonality diamonds, and more.
  • Tonic Shifter — useful interactive graphical modulation appliance.
  • Shaker — when you want to escape from too digital a sound, this appliance adds a touch of organic analog realism to your scales.
     
  • Big library of scales included.
  • Imports popular scale file formats like Scala.
  • Huge variety of output formats.
  • Create new timbres that are spectrally matched to a scale.
     
  • Polyphonic virtual keyboard enables you to play scales and music without needing to turn on an external keyboard.
  • Communicates with hardware instruments through any MIDI interface and with sequencers and softsynths directly using inter-application MIDI communication.
  • Hardware synths with sysex retuning support are retuned directly using their own protocols through MIDI. Instruments which are not retunable can now be retuned through MIDI by using the powerful Nuscale real-time tuning module which can tune multiple instruments at once to the same or different tunings, as well as adding new expressive musical capabilities.
  • Tuning support for Logic 7, Kyma, Metasynth™, TimewARP2600, Pluggo™, Max/MSP™, BitHeadz Unity; LinPlug CronoX™, Alpha, Albino, SaxLab; Native Instruments (NI) FM7, Reaktor™, Kontakt, Absynth 2™ and many more.
  • Retunes many many softsynths and samplers, even those in Reason™, Ableton Live, and Kontakt™.
     
  • Zone Manager — master keyboard controller for creating splits and layers, and changing them in real time with foot pedals.
  • Universal Tuning Format Translator — Never worry about tuning format compatibility again! Read, write, convert practically anything!
  • Cupcake Microtonal Synthesizer — a 48 part multitimbral, 64 voice synthesizer. Cupcake accepts sequenced tuning changes, separate scales per part, and real time tuning and patch changes without glitching. Now included with LMSO!
 

 
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  • Converts ratios to cents and back. Harmonograph
  • Describes ratios and cents values using English terms.
  • Multipurpose calculator understands mathematical expressions & allows easy manipulation of them.
  • Graphically displays sum of waveforms.
  • An absolute must for anyone’s tuning toolbox.
 

 
  • Dynamic retuning — easily retune notes while you play — just like a sitar or koto.
  • Unifies all your synthesizers’ different tuning standards under a common interface.
  • Extends your synth’s features to include new pitch bend modes — now your synth works like a sitar!
  • Reads and converts a wide variety of tuning file formats.
  • Downloads tunings from your synths.
  • Implements sostenuto on your synths.
  • Note and velocity cross switching.
  • Select your own advanced voice allocation schemes.
 

 
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Absynth, Reaktor, Kontakt, Pro-53 and FM7 are trademarks of Native Instruments. TimewARP2600 is a trademark of Way Out Ware. Kyma is a trademark of Symbolic Sound. Metasynth is a trademark of UI. Max/MSP and Pluggo are a trademarks of Cycling74. Unity is a trademark of Bitheadz. Reason is a trademark of Propellerhead Software. Logic is a trademark of Emagic. CronoX, Alpha, Albino and SaxLab are trademarks of LinPlug. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.