TL;DR, I made a new scale that's completely different from what western music uses for a world building thing, and I'm having a lot of trouble with it.

I made a chord progression using the i'Etade chromatic scale, which I made for a world building project I'm doing in my free time. It is macrotonal, meaning it has less notes than in the usual western 12 tone chromatic scale. In this case, it's 11 notes in the scale, except for a weird part in between octaves where it would usually imply 13 notes in the scale.

I'm still having trouble getting used to it. The way I think when I compose is heavily rooted in 12 tone equal temperament, so trying to think in 11 (with the prime number of notes, less notes, different notes altogether, plus the other weird i'Etade specific things) is really hard to get used to. It's also just similar enough that I try and hum the notes of a chord in 12 TET and then just translate it into 11, but it sounds completely wrong, so I have to adapt.

Also jummbox has no built-in feature for micro/macrotones, so I just have lots of versions of the same instrument with different amounts of detune to fit the scale, and it gets hard to keep track of. Btw, that's also why all the parts of the chords have different colors, they're technically different instruments.

I'm gonna have to sing with this scale, oh god...

THE GOOD STUFF:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Demonstration of the scale (2nd octave included to show the weird stuff in between octaves)

https://tinyurl.com/mtxza8da

The chord progression:

https://tinyurl.com/4ku9bapt

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Happy Pixelling!