Make xenharmonic music and explore musical tunings.
microwave is a microtonal waveform synthesizer based on the microtonal tune library and the Nannou UI framework.
It features a virtual piano UI enabling you to play polyphonic microtonal melodies with your touch screen or mouse. The UI provides information about pitches and just intervals in custom tuning systems.
bash
cargo install -f microwave
You might need to install additional dependencies required by Nannou. For me, the following setup worked:
bash
sudo apt install pkg-config libx11-dev
If this doesn't help or you don't use apt, try following these instructions.
You can run microwave in continous or scale-based mode:
bash
microwave # Continuous
microwave equal 1:22:2 # 22-EDO scale
The command should spawn a a window showing a virtual keyboard.
Use your touch screen or mouse to play melodies on the virtual piano. At present, polyphonic melodies can only be played via the touch screen.
To see how scale expressions work, visit tune.