My First Microtonal Piece!

[18musicians]

If you like middle east flavored music, you might want to try 17EDO. Fun scale, and not very hard to get into. It's got familiar sounding intervals like 4ths and 5ths, but also has lots of those fun "neutral" in-between intervals that can make it exotic. (I've also got a guitar I refretted for 17!)

Agreed about Scala. The maintenance hasn't been great, and I've had mixed luck with it lately. Like you said, it's not that hard to roll your own files using scripts or whatever. But also check out Sevish's Scale Workshop site, where you can generate and save scl/kbm files from your browser. You can even play the scales on a primitive online synth.
http://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/

The Linux-based "samplv1" sampler (and "synthv1") plugins added scala microtuning fairly recently. I haven't had time to try these out yet. (I had trouble getting them to work in kxstudio. I think there is some workaround but I haven't dug into it yet.)

If you can use Windows VSTs, the Xen-Arts plugins are excellent: http://www.vst4free.com/index.php?dev=Xen-Arts
The XenFont plugin can play SF2 soundfonts. And the others can do some really cool timbral stuff.

And the Biptunia microtonal synths are relatively new and I haven't used them (yet): https://biptunia.com/?page_id=2070

@fatraccoons , I hope you can get Carla figured out. Maybe another topic for the support board. fyi I'm using kxstudio with the carla-git and zynaddsubfx-git packages, along with whatever the LMMS build is in the kx repo.

[Rakso]

If you like middle east flavored music, you might want to try 17EDO. Fun scale, and not very hard to get into. It's got familiar sounding intervals like 4ths and 5ths, but also has lots of those fun "neutral" in-between intervals that can make it exotic. (I've also got a guitar I refretted for 17!)

Agreed about Scala. The maintenance hasn't been great, and I've had mixed luck with it lately. Like you said, it's not that hard to roll your own files using scripts or whatever. But also check out Sevish's Scale Workshop site, where you can generate and save scl/kbm files from your browser. You can even play the scales on a primitive online synth.
http://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/

The Linux-based "samplv1" sampler (and "synthv1") plugins added scala microtuning fairly recently. I haven't had time to try these out yet. (I had trouble getting them to work in kxstudio. I think there is some workaround but I haven't dug into it yet.)

If you can use Windows VSTs, the Xen-Arts plugins are excellent: http://www.vst4free.com/index.php?dev=Xen-Arts
The XenFont plugin can play SF2 soundfonts. And the others can do some really cool timbral stuff. see

And the Biptunia microtonal synths are relatively new and I haven't used them (yet): https://biptunia.com/?page_id=2070

@fatraccoons , I hope you can get Carla figured out. Maybe another topic for the support board. fyi I'm using kxstudio with the carla-git and zynaddsubfx-git packages, along with whatever the LMMS build is in the kx repo.

Awesome! Thanks for the links and tips . I'll try out samplv1 later and keep 17 EDO in mind. I've been listening to Sevish lately, he's great. I'll check out his site.

I'm actually having a lot of trouble getting Carla set up on my LMMS system

Maybe this deserves it's own thread but the way I installed it was this (on Linux mint Mate maybe 2 years old operating system):

First make sure you have the kxstudio repositories or then install kxstudio repositories (instructions: https://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Repositories ).

Then run:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install lmms
sudo apt install carla-git

(the last command might work with sudo apt install carla as well idk)

The first two commands update and upgrade your repos (including kxstudio) to the latest version.
The 3rd command makes sure you have latest LMMS version.
Some of these commands may be unnecessary depending on your situation but that should do the job at least.
Then close and reopen LMMS, they should be automatically in the instrument menu (worked in lmms 1.1.3).
Note that some Linux OS might use the words "sudo apt-get" instead of "sudo apt" for whatever reason.

EDIT: I just tried using Zynaddsubfx without Carla rack and it looks like it works too (even after closing and reopening LMMS, Zynaddsubfx remembered the scale settings and I was able to export the song succesfully as well).