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Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems

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83 points retooth | 1 comments | 08 Jul 25 22:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.228s | source
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bntr ◴[09 Jul 25 04:05 UTC] No.44506257[source]▶
My actual question: do you use xenharmlib for composing?

I assume this is your album: https://fabianvallon.bandcamp.com/album/a-different-path-for...

Was xenharmlib used in it, or some other software?

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1. retooth ◴[09 Jul 25 05:50 UTC] No.44506697[source]▶
Yes, I do. For the actual score composition I used Ableton, but xenharmlib can export SCL files to define microtonal scales, which then can be imported in Ableton (a lot of other DAWs and VSTs support this format too).

For the most part however I use xenharmlib for theoretical aspects of music. I got interested in the "31 Equal Divisions per Octave" tuning a couple years ago, because of its psychoaccustic potentials, but thinking about chords, modes, notation in 31-EDO made my head hurt, so I built the library to help me think and answer my questions.