Unique Instrument!
Full disclosure: I am not a fan of quarter-tones — microtonality, yes, but straight quarter-tones just sound out-of-tune to this Westerner. That said, this is a unique instrument! I would love to see an option of switching to Just tuning (which is its own form of microtonality, but designed to be more harmonically pleasing to Western musical traditions), but one cannot downgrade the developer for straying from the intended purpose of an app that generates quarter-tones only! For instrument sounds, you have the option of piano (kind of a honky-tonk sound), synth (sine-wave), and (Hammond-like) organ. You also have several options on how the “keyboard” is laid out. Props to the developer for this option! My only suggestions are: 1) to have a zoomable keyboard (or to allow for two- or three-tiered rows, so one doesn’t have to scroll to get notes out-of-range of the current keyboard position; and 2) Allow for a full piano range (like the 88 keys in a 12-tone setting) — that the top tone as-is goes only to a B is a bummer — at least finish the C scale out to a top C! :-) Conclusion: Definitely get this app! It is innovative, and it works! (I have not tried it in MIDI mode.)
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Very cool.
I enjoyed playing around with this. The only thing I’d change is adding the ability to loop a sequence of keys to build up a track and add a guitar/bass sound option.
How do you import the keys to garageband?
so far I love this app and I have some ideas: can you allow sampling on this keyboard, maybe allow different experiment tunings such as 31 tet and the ability to zoom in and out of the keyboard to make it bigger or smaller?
Next thing, how do you import this to garageband?
Next thing, how do you import this to garageband?