DappleTM is the first music offering for Android from our research division, TryTone Center. You can find it on Google Play.
Touch and draw colorful, sweeping musical soundscapes. Have fun creating swirling waves and sprawling layers of sound. Create something original with every tap and swipe.
Dapple is a different kind of musical instrument, with several musically experimental ideas at work all in the small space of your smartphone or tablet.
A simple pitch matrix combined
with clusters of notes and a rich palette of musical
timbres provide a way to easily create complex atonal
results.
With Dapple, you can:
- Access over one hundred instruments.
- Play over a range of seven octaves.
- Select musical timbres from the color palette.
- Swipe to create elongated patterns of sound.
- Tap to play a short phrase or "phraselet".
- Vary the tempo using red tempo blocks.
- Tilt to move sounds in stereo from left to right.
- Play from collections of tempos, chords, and phraselets.
Your sounds will flow in stereo with headphones as you tilt
the screen left and right. Dapple will quickly have you
searching for even more indescribable sounds and musical
patterns.
Is it art? Is it music? We're not sure, but it sure is a
fun instrument to play. We're just getting started...please
post your suggestions and ideas.
Devices with larger screens supporting pressure-sensitive
touch and orientation sensing, and listening with a good
pair of headphones will give the best results.
Keywords: synthesizer, musical instrument, sound effects,
audio player, composing, making music, MIDI
