Software

Desktop app

[chordal]

Turn your laptop into an infinitely playable instrument. Every possible chord at your fingertips, playable with your keyboard or trackpad like a piano or guitar. Learn the theory as you go, or ignore it and just have fun. Presets for every major genre. World-class sample libraries, synth, string modelling, and drum machine built in. Perform, compose, record.

Web app

[worldscale]

Every scale that exists in real music. Browse the scales used around the world and through history, from jazz modes to ragas, maqams, gamelan and microtonal tunings. See where traditions overlap, giving different names to the same scale, with true tunings shown to the cent. Filter by region, pick a key, then play them on your laptop keyboard. Or build your own.