Here are some of my thoughts on various microtonal scales. These thoughts are my own subjective impressions and there’s no need to take them seriously. Enjoy!

Equal-step tunings

• 1edo – wide-open featureless space
• 2edo – dual opposition
• 3edo – dreamy flashback, bells
• 4edo – cartoony horror, staircase
• 5edo – open, bright colour, ease
• 6edo – cartoony wonder, tension
• 7edo – flat, comfort, bright colour
• 8edo – moist shit
• 9edo – bells, chimes
• 10edo – vivid, open
• 11edo – pure, warped, intuitive
• 12edo – nostalgia, comfort, jazzy, transparent
• 13edo – warped liminal space
• 14edo – multicoloured
• 15edo – wonky
• 16edo – expressive
• 17edo – angular, intuitive, colourful
• 18edo – bright colour, I still haven’t explored this one
• 19edo – flat, wonky, uncanny, pale
• 22edo – chill, trippy, hyper-jazz
• 23edo – bright colour, unstable
• 24edo – something you think should be familiar is now wretched, hyper-jazz
• 29edo – expanded wonky wonder
• 31edo – rest, clarity, transparency, and once you get this far out, each edo has the capacity for extreme variety
• 314edo – way too many notes. this is the point where you’ve gone too far

Bonus, here are some temperament impressions too

• blackwood – jazzy, dirty, trippy barbershop pole effects
• machine – sparkly, pure, unusual
• mavila – face swap, expectation and surprise
• porcupine – an otonal- and Arabian- influenced diatonic without being either of those things

What are your own impressions?