----"My question is how it would sound with something other than sine waves, where you've got all the added harmonics to worry about."---------------And there in lies the challenge...making full instruments to work with the square root base notes._____ About 90 PERCENT the notes in this scale are slightly bent versions of the traditional 7-tone Western scale...bent JUST enough to fit 9-notes without crossing the "discord" limit (though getting close...fitting 9-notes into just one octave without "discordant overlap" is VERY tough).------------------------------ I may actually use this scale in many songs of mine...once I figure out how to make a program that modifies my instruments well to fit its timbre (and avoids the overlapping overtone problem). --------Actually, you've got a good point about the fuzzy sound....I've found harmonically-geared micro-tonal scales work well in Acid and Industrial music b/c they BOTH often have a "boarder-line" level of dissonance in the instruments so the user is "geared up" to handle a fairly high, but not "out of control", level of "intelligent noise".

It's very bizarre. I really enjoy this, but I can't articulate why. Maybe it's the polyphonic near-dischord that's not as discordant as it seems. Okay, the cadence of the notes playing rocks; I can hear it fitting in a nice downtempo experimental industrial or psychedelic jazz song with lots of crunch and fizz. Glitchy breakbeat might also sound good with the spirit of this demo. My question is how it would sound with something other than sine waves, where you've got all the added harmonics to worry about.