Hexatone vs GLYPHTONE

Hexatone turns your iPhone or iPad into a microtonal instrument you can actually play. The keys form a honeycomb where every interval has the same shape wherever your hand sits, so a chord you learn once works in every key, and in every tuning. It makes its own sound, in tune, with two built-in voices and a sampler, so you need no other app to start. It also plays MPE synths in tune and runs as a plugin inside your music apps. NEW IN 2.0 - Hexatone on iPhone, in portrait and landscape. One purchase covers iPhone and iPad. - Note colours: each key is coloured by how its note is spelled. Naturals are warm white, flats run warm and sharps cool, deeper with every accidental, in any EDO. - Scale highlight: dim every key outside a pentatonic, diatonic or 12-note scale on any root. Dimmed keys still play. - Flat keys that light up and glow as you play, with note names on every key. - Octave buttons right on the keyboard. PLAY ANY TUNING - Any equal temperament from 2 to 96 notes per octave, with quick picks for 12, 19, 22, 24, 31 and 53 - Import your own Scala (.scl) scales: just intonation, historical temperaments, world tunings. Keys show their ratios. - Set the octave and concert pitch (A4 from 400 to 480 Hz) A SOUND OF ITS OWN - Two built-in voices: Hexatone Bell, struck and ringing, and Hexatone Glass, which sustains for as long as you play - Load a single audio file and play it across the whole keyboard, in tune - Build an instrument from a folder of samples: Hexatone detects each pitch and maps the keys for you - Or import multisample instruments (SFZ), as a folder or a .zip - Rename and delete instruments to keep your library tidy - Up to 16 voices at once PLAY HANDS-FREE - Hold sustains a chord after you lift your fingers. Tap a held key to drop it. - Arpeggiator: five patterns, rates from 1/4 to 1/32 with triplets, gate, tempo and up to 4 octaves. Add or remove notes while it runs. - In a host, the arpeggiator locks to the host tempo and its bars - A panic button silences everything at once, without changing a setting ISOMORPHIC LAYOUTS - Bosanquet, Wicki-Hayden, Harmonic Table, Fourths, Accordion (B and C-system), Park and Gerhard, plus a Custom layout - Every layout follows whatever tuning you pick KEYS YOU CAN READ - Note colours, or one of five pitch palettes: Hexatone Pastel, Inferno, Turquoise, Campfire and Signal - Labels show note names (with ^ and v for the steps in between), steps, ratios, or nothing - Key size from 26 to 64 points WORKS WITH YOUR SETUP - Standalone, or as an AUv3 plugin in AUM, Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cubasis, Loopy Pro and Drambo - Two plugins in one: Hexatone, an instrument with its own sound, and Hexatone MIDI, a pure MIDI source for hosts that record MIDI from their MIDI slots - MPE pitch: each note plays on its own channel with its own pitch bend, so MPE synths sound every microtonal interval in tune - The plugin plays incoming MIDI and reads per-note pitch bend, so a recorded performance plays back in tune - Pitch-bend range of 48, 24, 12 or 2 semitones - Fixed velocity, or (in the app) an experimental accelerometer mode with its own curve Two honest limits. Hexatone sends per-note pitch and velocity, not the continuous timbre (CC74) or pressure of touch controllers like the Seaboard: a flat glass screen cannot sense those well. And a phone tracks fewer fingers at once than an iPad, so build big chords there with Hold. One price. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no accounts, no ads, no data collection.

GLYPHTONE is a pocket-sized step sequencer built around one simple idea: tap a grid, hear a pattern. — 16×16 GRID — Sixteen steps across, sixteen pitches down. Tap a cell to place a note, tap again to remove it. Watch the playhead sweep across as your pattern plays back. — 9 TIMBRES — Bell, Piano, Organ, Strings, Brass, Lead, Pad, Bass, and a dedicated Drum voice with nine distinct percussion sounds built in — all synthesized live, no samples to download. — SOLO OR ENSEMBLE — Solo mode keeps one timbre per cell, so switching instruments recolors your whole pattern instead of stacking new sounds on top. Ensemble mode lets you layer multiple timbres in the same cell. — GENERATE — Stuck for ideas? Generate builds a fresh phrase in one of ten shapes — Up, Down, Wave, Zigzag, Random, Drum, and more. Keep pressing Generate to reroll variations, or Undo up to five steps back. — SCALES & OCTAVES — Ten scales (Major, Minor, Dorian, Blues, In Sen, Ryukyu, and more) and a ±2 octave range, so the same grid pattern can sound completely different. — FOUR BARS — Work across four separate bars, each auto-saving as you go. Chain any combination of them together for longer arrangements that loop in order. — EXPORT — Render your pattern to a WAV audio file, or save it as a Standard MIDI File to bring into your DAW. No account. No ads. No internet connection required. Everything happens on your device.