Hingebox

Touch the pad and you're already playing. Slide for pitch, slide for tone, and every note lands in key over a beat you built in ten seconds. Nothing you press can clash, so it sounds good from the first touch. Hingebox is a pocket groovebox: a synth, a drum machine and four loopers in one box, with 45 sounds made for it and, on iPhone Duo, a hinge that bends the music in your hands. PLAY THE PAD Left and right for pitch, up and down for tone, up to four fingers at once. Every note snaps to the key and chords light up underneath. Chord mode plays only chord tones, easy mode snaps your fingers to the steps of the scale, and hold latches a note while you do something else. MAKE A BEAT Eight tracks of 16 steps: kick, snare, clap, hats, tom, perc and bass. Tap steps on, add accents, mute tracks, set swing and pump. Start from one of 23 grooves, from bubblegum house to one drop dub, or roll the dice for a new one. Pick a key, one of 12 scales and one of 12 chord progressions. Save your own beats under a name and come back to them. 45 SOUNDS, MADE FOR THE APP Leads, basses, keys, arps, pads and fx. Some are synthesized live; the tine keys, soft pluck, air pad, celesta, warm bass and studio drum kit are sampled instruments built from scratch. Add a tape bed of hiss and vinyl under it all. ARPEGGIATOR ON ANY SOUND Up, down, random, trill, octave and twelve named patterns, from 1/32 to 1/4 with triplets. It plays what your fingers, a MIDI keyboard or a one-finger chord hold, and it follows the clock. LOOP IT Four loopers locked to the beat, 1, 2 or 4 bars long. Record, overdub, mute and clear while the groove keeps going. ON IPHONE DUO - Fold the hinge in from wherever you hold it to push an effect: bloom, filter, dub echo, stutter, tape stop or a tilt EQ - Close the phone and the groove keeps playing while the cover puts on a show: Bop the critter dancing on the beat, or seven other shows - Play catch the beat on the cover, a game made from your own kicks and snares - Stand it up like a tent and the inner screen throws a light show On any other iPhone, a touch fx strip does the hinge's job and the game opens full screen. TILT, SHAKE, MIDI Tilt for a wobble, a pitch bend or more space. Shake to mutate the beat. Send or follow MIDI clock so Hingebox keeps time with a drum machine or a DAW, play it from a MIDI keyboard over USB-C, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi with scale lock and one-finger chords, and send the hinge and tilt out as MIDI controllers. It keeps playing in the background and when the phone locks. One price, no ads, no accounts, no tracking, nothing to unlock.