Finger Gong vs Pulseq

Finger Gong is a real-time gong synthesizer that responds to your touch. Every sound is built from scratch — fourteen oscillators per voice, detuned and coupled so harmonics bloom, beat, and slowly fade. Tap to strike. Hold and drag to rub with a friction mallet. The gong begins to sing, harmonics building and shifting as you move. Speed, direction, and pressure all shape the voice. SEE THE SOUND A 2D wave simulation ripples across the surface with every strike. Switch to Chladni mode and watch thousands of sand particles settle into real nodal patterns — the same physics Ernst Chladni revealed two centuries ago. BLISS MODE Curated sound environments for meditation, relaxation, and healing. Each preset tunes the gong to a specific shape, alloy, pitch, and sustain — voiced for calm. 5 gong shapes — Chau, Bao, Bell, Wind, and Bowl 5 alloys — Bronze, Brass, Nickel Silver, Blisserite, and Thankium 6 pitches — pentatonic scale for melodic exploration 4 sizes — from a 14-inch hand gong to a 50-inch concert gong 5 mallets — from bright wooden sticks to soft friction pads FRICTION MALLETS Hold and drag very slowly. The gong begins to sing as harmonics couple and build — lush, evolving textures that shift as you move. Each mallet has its own grip and character. IMMERSION MODE Long-press Zen to hide everything. Just you, the gong, and darkness. Record your sessions. Three skins. Waveform, spectrogram, and harmonic visualizers.

Pulseq is a multi-stage MIDI sequencer built for techno, acid, and experimental electronic music. It drives your external synths and AUv3 plugins over MIDI. Made up of 1-16 "stages", each stage carries its own note, velocity, gate behavior, and length. Chain scenes together into full arrangements. Use Pulseq as a standalone app or as an Audio Unit MIDI effect inside your host. SEQUENCING Build patterns from 1 to 16 stages. Each stage sets its own note, velocity, gate mode, and length in pulses. Let a stages hold for two or three pulses, and hear the loop come alive. PITCH & SCALES Pitch comes from each stage's note, guided by root and scale. Seventeen scales are available. Snap Notes to Scale keeps emitted notes in key; turn it off and stored notes play exactly as entered. GATE MODES & RHYTHM Gate mode is the character of each stage: Off, Single (one trigger per stage), Multi (retriggers every pulse, or every 2nd, 3rd, or 4th), Prob (fires by chance), Long (holds to the end), and Prog (a pattern you draw across up to 16 steps). Add Swing from 0 to 100%, shape Gate Length from tight and clipped to legato, and turn on per-stage Glide with global Portamento. PLAY & SPLIT MODES Play mode sets direction: Forward, Ping-Pong, Random, and Fixed. Split mode changes form: run a single lane, alternate lanes A and B by repeat counts (Serial, to build AAAB patterns), or run both lanes at once on two MIDI channels (Parallel) with an independent B clock multiplier. CC MODULATION Up to eight CC lanes drive filter cutoffs, mod wheels, or any destination that accepts MIDI CC. Lane values are per-stage, and every new lane starts with Don't Send so adding one can never surprise attached hardware. CLOCK & TRANSPORT When hosted, Pulseq follows the host transport and clock. Standalone, an internal tempo from 20 to 300 BPM drives playback, with clock divisions from 1/1 down to 1/32 plus triplet and dotted options. Apply Changes controls when live edits take effect: Immediate, Next Pulse, or Next Bar, for deterministic performance. SCENES & CHAIN Sixteen scene slots capture the full musical setup: stages, root, scale, tempo, split, and CC lanes, while leaving your user configuration intact. String scenes into a complete track with the Chain editor: set per-step lengths, loop the whole chain, and hand scene changes to the timeline. STANDALONE & AUV3 Use Pulseq as a standalone app or as an AUv3 MIDI effect. It runs in AUv3 hosts such as AUM, Drambo, Logic, and Cubasis.