A new application for temperament and tuning

Temperament is a vast subject: acoustical, mathematical, historical and cultural... It is also well suited to programming.

Here you will find a program which calculates and displays temperaments, compares them and optimises the tuning. First have a look at the tutorial to see what the application looks like. Through illustrated explanations and examples you will be able to quickly use the interface and see if this program could be useful for your purposes. This tutorial is also available in a more compact form inside the application.

Download the application and run it on your computer.

If you want to know about temperament and tuning go through the web where you will find a wealth of literature. For a thorough overview, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning a useful encyclopedia available in many languages.

This software developed at UNSW by Simon Caplette. Contact Simon with feedback or questions.