Mass vs Note to Be

Open the door to new musical dimensions with Mass — a physics-based MIDI generator crafted to inspire musicians across genres. Add complexity to your sequences, explore generative patterns, or create organic modulations; Mass is your gateway to boundless musical experimentation. • Generative Sequences: Sculpt intricate melodies and rhythms that evolve over time. • Living Modulations: Shape fluid, natural modulations that respond like living elements. • Total Creative Freedom: Need a spark of randomness or complete control? Mass lets you move seamlessly between guided automation and full improvisation. Whether you’re diving into ambient soundscapes, exploring the depths of MIDI control, or crafting intricate modulations, Mass is your key to immersive sonic worlds. Available as a standalone MIDI generator and AUv3 plugin, Mass transforms your favorite hardware and software instruments into a sandbox of endless possibilities. With Mass, you’ll find an extensive toolkit for creative control and experimentation. Here’s what you can expect: • Euclidean Pattern Sequencing: Easily create complex sequences by layering polyrhythmic Euclidian patterns. • Flexible MIDI CC: Modulate and sequence any MIDI CC parameter, allowing you to breathe life into every detail of your sound. • Physics-Based Animation: Apply physics to sequences and modulations, creating dynamic, evolving movements within your music. • Powerful Controller: Mass is a powerful MIDI controller, allowing you to manipulate your favorite hardware and software instruments in either standalone or AUv3 modes. • MIDI Sync: Synchronize with external hardware and software using standard MIDI sync capabilities. Mass can function as the primary clock, or be synced to a host clock. • iCloud Sync: Seamlessly share your creations across devices with iCloud syncing. Work in the standalone version or AUv3 plugin, without missing a beat. With Mass, you’re free to explore musical layers, rhythms, and motion in new ways. Let it guide your creative journey, transforming each idea into a boundless musical experience.

Take full control of your MIDI experience with Note to Be—the powerful iOS app designed to transform how you interact with your music. Whether you're working with a MIDI keyboard, sequencer, or MIDI CC input, Note to Be ensures your notes are perfectly quantized to the nearest selected note, allowing you to craft precise, harmonious compositions with ease. Key Features: - Customizable Note Selection: Choose individual notes from any octave, or apply your selection across the full -1 to +8 octave range. - Octave Flexibility: Work within the entire octave spectrum, selecting and unselecting notes with a simple tap. - MIDI CC Integration: Use MIDI CC from hardware controllers or apps like ShiftBud to convert control changes into quantized notes. Easily create chord voicings and dynamic live performances. - Multi-Synth Support: Assign different MIDI channels to multiple synths, allowing each to respond to the quantized MIDI output independently. - Live Performance Enhancement: Engage the 'all notes' toggle to instantly apply note selections across all octaves or quickly select notes in a specific key and scale. - Microtonality: Select a microtonal scale from the Scala Library with +5000 microtonal scales, or import your own to the iCloud folder. Play the MPE supported synths polyphonically. With Note to Be, your music becomes a canvas, and every note is a brushstroke. Unlock new creative possibilities and refine your sound with the precision of MIDI quantization, right from your iOS device. Note to Be is a MIDI app and does not produce any sound on its own. You need a MIDI input source and an audio output destination in order to work with Note to Be. The AUv3 plugin requires an AUv3 host app such as AUM, Logic Pro for iPad, Loopy Pro, Cubasis, Nanostudio, apeMatrix, Audiobus etc.