Luminome vs Quick Tones

LUMINOME – RHYTHM YOU CAN SEE, FEEL, AND HEAR Luminome is more than a metronome – it’s a sensory musical experience. Designed with precision and minimalism, it transforms beats into both sound and light, creating a unique blend of timing, tone, and color. Simplicity meets rhythm and light. CORE FEATURES • High-precision metronome with rhythmic light pulses • Advanced Tap Tempo with real-time sync and adaptive accuracy • Subdivisions based on the overtone series • Minimalist design for distraction-free focus • Frequency-to-color mapping for a synesthetic experience • Cosmic Rhythm Mode for exploring rhythm across light and time TAP TEMPO: PRECISION AT YOUR FINGERTIPS At the heart of Luminome is a powerful and highly accurate Tap Tempo engine: • Uses a custom algorithm that learns and refines with each tap • Becomes more precise over time, adapting to your rhythm • The beat starts exactly in sync with your final tap – no delay, no drift This makes Luminome a natural extension of your internal tempo, perfect for live performance and intuitive beat control. SUBDIVISIONS BASED ON THE OVERTONE SERIES Create complex rhythmic patterns with intuitive subdivisions that: • Reflect the natural overtone series in pitch space • Allow you to hear and see harmonic relationships in time • Visualize and feel polyrhythms as layered pulses of light and tone This feature connects rhythm to musical acoustics, revealing hidden harmonic structures through timing. NEW: COSMIC RHYTHM MODE Explore rhythm beyond traditional boundaries: • Set tempo using astronomical units, like beats per day or beats per year • Input frequencies in nanometers to map beats to colors of light • Enable frequency doubling to align each beat with both musical pitch and visible spectrum hues Rhythm becomes a bridge between music, light, and cosmic cycles. COLOR MAPPING BASED ON “THE COSMIC OCTAVE” Luminome includes a unique frequency-to-color system inspired by “The Cosmic Octave” by Norbert Böhm and Hans Cousto (https://www.planetware.de). This model connects musical tones to natural frequencies, mapping them to colors for a rich visual and sonic experience. SYNC WITH ABLETON LINK Stay in perfect time with other apps and devices using Ableton Link: • Sync tempos in real time • Collaborate seamlessly across your music setup • Jam, perform, and explore while staying perfectly in sync EXPLORE THE SCIENCE OF RHYTHM AND PITCH Delve into frequency ratios, pitch perception, and the visible spectrum. Luminome transforms rhythm into a multisensory journey through time, tone, and color. HEALTH & SAFETY WARNING This app contains visual elements including flashing lights, which may trigger seizures in individuals with photosensitive epilepsy. Consult a healthcare professional before use if you have a history of epilepsy or sensitivity to flashing light. Play it. Feel it. See it. Sync it. Experience rhythm across the spectrum – with Luminome.

Quick Tones is an easy and fun way for anyone to make music. Quickly create new music tracks by simply activating squares on the interactive music pad. Music compositions are broken up into sections, and each section can utilize up to nine different instrument channels. You can then make a complete song by switching from one loop section to another. With Quick Tones, anybody can make music, regardless of experience level!