Hooklines vs GeneTune

Hooklines is a creative workspace built for musicians, poets, lyricists, and songwriters who live for inspiration. Whether you’re capturing a quick idea on the go or developing a full set of lyrics, Hooklines helps you organize your creativity and bring structure to the songwriting process. Every great song begins with a spark — and in Hooklines, that spark takes the form of a snippet. Hooklines is inspired by the Verbasizer, an idea created by David Bowie, Brian Eno and Ty Roberts (the original idea and copyright of the Verbasizer is owned by Ty Roberts). Hooklines has taken that concept and expanded it with innovative concepts such as Snippets, SnippetBooks and randomized lyrics. Snippets are short phrases, lyric fragments, or complete lyric lines that capture your ideas as they come to you. These pieces of inspiration can later become part of a verse, a chorus, or even the hookline of your song. With Hooklines, you never lose a thought — you collect them, refine them, and transform them into lyrics that stick. Think of snippets as sparks of creativity where you come up with a couple words or a phrase that can serve as the starting point to a lyric line or even a whole song. When it’s time to write, Hooklines gives you a hands-on, drag-and-drop interface that makes lyric building intuitive and fun. You can experiment with structure, rearrange lines, and play with flow and rhythm — all while keeping your creative energy moving. The visual layout helps you see your song take shape, one line at a time, without losing the freedom to explore. Hooklines helps to spark creativity by letting it throw together bunches of random works - maybe you'll find a few words or phrase that gives you the inspiration for a new song. An exciting feature of Hooklnes is creating randomized lyric lines in a song. What is this you ask? Let Hooklines take all the snippets (or the words) in a SnippetBook you've selected, and add them all together in a single lyric line in a random order. You can redo a randomize lyric line, or create multiple randomized lyric lines in a song. Creating randomized lyric lines presents you with unique and maybe interesting combination of snippets, where a word combination might spark some imagination to help you in your writing. Need some help with rhymes or coming up with just the right word? Hooklines has built in word utilities such as rhyming, find words with similar meaning, and show me words that often follow another word. Hooklines also has a built in dictionary, thesaurus and spell checker! Lyric lines do not have to start, or even contain snippets. Just type in the lyrics you want into that line and you're good to go. Need to rearrange lyric lines, just grab the lyric line, drag it to where you want it, and just drop it in place. Feel like using a snippet in more than one song, trying to find the right song where that line sticks - no problem. Need to get the lyrics on printed paper, it's easy because Hooklines allows you to email the lyrics to yourself at any time. Once a song is finished, you can archive it, keeping it safely stored without cluttering your workspace. This way, you can revisit old material whenever you like — to refine it, reuse it, or simply enjoy seeing how your writing has evolved. At any time you can share a song via email. When editing a song, press the mail button in the top right and the song is emailed to you. Active versus Archived songs - Think of archived songs as ones you're done working (at the moment or for good). You can archive the to keep your song's creative starting point (or complete song) around. Hooklines isn’t just about storing words — it’s about nurturing creativity. It gives songwriters a clear, inspiring place to shape ideas, explore possibilities, and discover the perfect hookline. Whether you’re writing your first song or your hundredth, Hooklines helps you turn fragments into finished lyrics and inspiration into unforgettable music.

Turn your iPhone into a 16-bit sound chip. GeneTune is a complete chiptune studio built on the YM2612 FM synthesizer and the SN76489 PSG — the two chips behind classic 16-bit console soundtracks. Draw on a piano roll, design 4-operator FM voices, and export hardware-accurate VGM for real homebrew projects. REAL CHIP ARCHITECTURE, NOT A PRESET PACK • 6 FM channels: 4 operators, 8 algorithms, feedback • Full operator control — DT, MUL, TL, RS, AR, D1R, D2R, SL, RR, AM, SSG-EG • Per-channel AMS / FMS and L/R panning, plus a global LFO • 3 square-wave PSG channels and 1 white/periodic noise channel with 4-bit attenuation • DAC sample playback on FM channel 6, with correct hardware channel muting A PIANO ROLL THAT MATCHES THE HARDWARE • 10 fixed tracks mapped 1:1 to the chips — 6 FM, 3 PSG tone, 1 noise • Tap to draw, drag to move, stretch to change note length • Pinch to zoom, playhead follow, quantize, tempo, pattern loop, mute and solo • Undo and redo (⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z with a hardware keyboard) • Touch keyboard to audition any voice instantly MIDI IN • Play and record from any Core MIDI controller or app • Step input for precise, tracker-style entry • MIDI clock and transport sync • MIDI Learn for play and stop IMPORT AND EDIT REAL VGM FILES • Open .vgm and .vgz and hear the original register log played back through a ymfm-based core • Then edit it: FM key-on/off becomes real notes, PSG tone and noise become real notes • FM voices, PSG settings, LFO and GD3 song titles are all recovered • DAC writes and DAC Stream Control are rebuilt into PCM material and notes • Mid-song voice changes and multiple DAC waveforms are preserved per note • Tempo and bar grid are estimated automatically from note timing EXPORTS YOU CAN ACTUALLY SHIP • VGM 1.70 — NTSC chip clocks, full register streams, pattern looping, DAC register 2A stream • 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo WAV for streaming, video and demos • .mdseq project files with autosave • Live Z80 RAM (8 KiB) and music ROM (448 KiB) budget readouts, so your track fits on real hardware BRING YOUR OWN SAMPLES Import WAV, AIFF, CAF or M4A and GeneTune converts it to the 11.025 kHz 8-bit unsigned PCM the hardware expects. Drums, voices, one-shots — all on the DAC channel, inside the real memory budget. BUILT FOR iPHONE AND iPAD • Universal app — 3-pane layout on iPad, 5-tab layout on iPhone • Works fully offline • No ads. No subscriptions. No account required. Whether you are scoring a homebrew game, writing retro-flavored tracks, or you just want to know what those chips really sounded like, GeneTune hands you the whole chip — not an imitation of it. Requires iOS / iPadOS 17.0 or later.