scale

A scale is a set of musical notes ordered by pitch. Scribbletune uses tonal as a dev dependency to create a dumbed down version of its scales in another node module called harmonics and uses that as a dependency of Scribbletune (this is done so as to have a very small footprint in Scribbletune for the music theory).

const scribble = require('scribbletune');
 
// Get the C major scale
let cMajor = scribble.scale('C4 major'); // [ 'C4', 'D4', 'E4' ... ]
 
// That's the same as
cMajor = scribble.scale('C4 ionian'); // [ 'C4', 'D4', 'E4', 'F4' ...]
 
// Create a clip that plays this C major scale
const clip = scribble.clip({
notes: cMajor,
pattern: 'xxxxxxx',
});
 
// Export this clip as a MIDI file
scribble.midi(clip, 'c-major.mid');

Scales are also exposed as modes.

let cMinor = scribble.mode('C4 aeolian'); // [ 'C4', 'D4', 'D#4', 'F4' ...]

You can list all the available scales by invoking scales or modes method.

const allScales = scribble.scales();

List of available scales

  • aeolian
  • altered
  • augmented
  • augmented heptatonic
  • balinese
  • bebop
  • bebop dominant
  • bebop locrian
  • bebop major
  • bebop minor
  • chromatic
  • composite blues
  • diminished
  • dorian
  • dorian #4
  • double harmonic lydian
  • double harmonic major
  • egyptian
  • enigmatic
  • flamenco
  • flat six pentatonic
  • flat three pentatonic
  • half-whole diminished
  • harmonic major
  • harmonic minor
  • hirajoshi
  • hungarian major
  • hungarian minor
  • ichikosucho
  • in-sen
  • ionian augmented
  • ionian pentatonic
  • iwato
  • kafi raga
  • kumoijoshi
  • leading whole tone
  • locrian
  • locrian #2
  • locrian major
  • locrian pentatonic
  • lydian
  • lydian #5P pentatonic
  • lydian #9
  • lydian augmented
  • lydian diminished
  • lydian dominant
  • lydian dominant pentatonic
  • lydian minor
  • lydian pentatonic
  • major
  • major blues
  • major flat two pentatonic
  • major pentatonic
  • malkos raga
  • melodic minor
  • melodic minor fifth mode
  • melodic minor second mode
  • minor #7M pentatonic
  • minor bebop
  • minor blues
  • minor hexatonic
  • minor pentatonic
  • minor six diminished
  • minor six pentatonic
  • mixolydian
  • mixolydian pentatonic
  • mystery #1
  • neopolitan
  • neopolitan major
  • neopolitan major pentatonic
  • neopolitan minor
  • oriental
  • pelog
  • persian
  • phrygian
  • phrygian dominant
  • piongio
  • prometheus
  • prometheus neopolitan
  • purvi raga
  • ritusen
  • romanian minor
  • scriabin
  • six tone symmetric
  • spanish heptatonic
  • super locrian pentatonic
  • todi raga
  • vietnamese 1
  • vietnamese 2
  • whole tone
  • whole tone pentatonic