Moon Echo vs Jam Assist

In our seventh collaboration with Berlin-based musician Hainbach we listen to the stars: Moon Echo is a free to download delay based on a communications technique that uses our closest cosmic neighbor, the moon, as a reflector for radio waves. This results in some rather crunchy and lively echoes, modulated by the movement of Earth and moon. The moon's surface is an imperfect mirror and creates artifacts, unlike any other echo technique. Moon Echo is both a musical lo-fi effect and a playful tool for teaching about space. Available as AUv3 and Standalone.

What key is this song in? What scale should you play over it? Point your phone at the music and Jam Assist listens, then names the key, scale, and mode it hears - and lights up exactly where to play it on your guitar, bass, and piano. It is a compass for your ear, not an autopilot. Most tools only help once you already know the key: a chord chart, a tab, a scale diagram to copy. Jam Assist works one step earlier, for the moment you cannot hear it yet. It listens to whatever is actually sounding and tells you where you are: the key, the scale, the mode, live. That is the missing half. Key finders can hear a song but stop at the name and never show you the fretboard. Scale libraries show you the fretboard but cannot hear a thing, so you have to already know the scale to look it up. Jam Assist does both at once: it hears the music and lays that exact scale under your fingers, in real time. What you can do with it: - Jam and improvise in the right key over any track or backing loop - Work out what scale to solo over by ear, instead of guessing - Find the key of a song by ear, on guitar, bass, or piano - Watch the scale shapes light up live while you play - Learn the modes by hearing them named the moment they happen What it detects, honestly: It hears the notes in the room and names the key, scale, and mode: major and minor, all seven modes (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian), major and minor pentatonic, blues, hirajoshi, insen, and whole tone. It shows you the scale to play, not chords, and it is not a tuner. It reads live sound, so it is never a static scale dictionary you flip through. Private by design: everything runs on your device, mic in only. No cloud, no accounts, no network, nothing leaves your phone. Hear it, see the fretboard, and jam in the right key.