Magnio vs Bytebeat

Where magnetism meets melody. Magnio turns the iPhone already in your hand into a living instrument. Held sideways like a game controller, it answers to your hands: touch the screen to wake the sound, then tilt, swipe, and push to give the music its shape. PLAY WITH MOVEMENT • Tilt the phone up and down to move through notes. • Flick your playing thumb sideways to bend a note into its neighbour. • Push the phone away from its centre to open the sound. CATCH THE VIBE Tap Vibe and Magnio listens to the room. Within seconds it finds the key of whatever is playing — a record, a jam, a friend at the piano — and tunes itself to it. Your very first note already belongs. No theory, no menus, no guessing what key you are in. NOTESEER: INTUITIVE NOTE INTELLIGENCE NoteSeer blends mathematical balance and the intuition of probability, learning from your musical aesthetic. It follows your chosen scale and playing to guide note choices. Shape its influence and learning in its own menu, or turn it off whenever you want. Everything happens on your device. BUILD A PULSE Choose a scale and octave. Add bass, arp, kick, and offbeat hat. Shape two-bar patterns, tap the tempo, and let sidechain make the sound breathe. RECORD AND SHARE One round button records what Magnio itself is playing — never the microphone, never the room. Recordings are named by date, and you can rename, play, share, or delete them from the list. CREATE YOUR OWN SOUND Blend sine, square, triangle and sawtooth waves. Adjust each wave's frequency components, name your instruments and save them on your device. Hold the fingerprint in the editor to play while shaping your sound. SHAPE THE RESPONSE Fine-tune Natural and Wah with modulation range, response curve, dead zone, reset-on-touch and note-lock settings. An optional quiet release echo follows the notes as you move, with adjustable delay and presence. MAKE IT YOURS Choose right- or left-handed playing; the whole instrument turns with you, so you simply flip the phone. Calibrate each gesture, tune the response, and arrange your performance surface — place the controls where your thumb wants them. GO FURTHER WHEN YOU WANT Play Magnio's own voice, send MIDI to another app on your iPhone, connect to a Mac over USB, or use BLE MIDI with a compatible Mac or iPad app. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. Vibe listens on device; audio is never saved or uploaded. Your settings stay on your device. Magnio is free. Every sound, gesture, and MIDI route is available. There are no subscriptions and no in-app purchases. The instrument was already with you. Now play it.

t*(42&t>>10) That one line is the whole song. Bytebeat turns a formula straight into sound. It evaluates your expression while t counts up from zero, one step at a time, and writes the result out as the waveform. No synthesizer, no audio files, no samples. The formula is the music. ■ Edit while it plays - Rewrite the formula without stopping playback. t keeps running - Change a single character and the song becomes something else - A keypad holding only the characters that appear in bytebeat formulas, so one tap is one character ■ See the waveform - An oscilloscope draws the samples that are actually playing - Traces are aligned to the rising edge, so the wave stays still instead of scrolling - Instruction count and stack depth are shown too ■ 29 famous formulas - Includes the one-liners from the experiments viznut published in 2011 - Save the ones you like to favorites with your own names ■ Three modes - Bytebeat: result & 255 mapped to 0...255, the way the original sounded - Signed: treated as signed 8-bit - Floatbeat: the result used directly as a -1...1 waveform, where sin and cos come alive ■ Change the speed of t - 500 to 48000 Hz. The original bytebeat ran at 8000 Hz - Slower runs lower, faster runs higher ■ Export to WAV - 8-bit, 8000 Hz, mono, which is exactly what bytebeat is - 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute or 3 minutes ■ What you can write - The variable t, and the constants PI and E - Arithmetic, bitwise operators, shifts, comparison, logic, the ternary operator - sin cos tan asin acos atan abs floor ceil round sqrt exp log sign int pow min max atan2 mod - Everything is computed in Double and rounded to 32-bit integers only for bitwise operations and shifts. This matches JavaScript's ToInt32, so formulas you find on the web play as they are ■ No connection - No account to create - No ads, no tracking - The app never connects to the internet. It works on a plane Many of the presets come from the experiments Ville-Matias Heikkila (viznut) published in 2011.