mucoder has announced the availability of a major new release of tonespace, which was an entry in the 2006 KVR Developer Challenge.
tonespace 2 (currently available as Public Beta version 2.0.294) is now available for free for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in stand-alone and VST and AU instrument plug-in formats.
What is tonespace?
- It's a different, more intuitive music keyboard, combined with a chorder.
- It supports over 50 different grids, 14 scales, 18 keys, 30+ chord types and 10 chord voicings.
- It can function as a VST or Audio Unit plug-in, processing incoming MIDI events and/or generating outgoing MIDI.
- You don't need to use MIDI though: there is also a standalone executable which contains its own little synth for a fast start.
What can you do with it?
- You can play and visualize chords while you move the mouse around in a grid-like space.
- You can learn how musical scales and keys work, and how chords relate to these, using the simple octave-based spaces.
- You can visually discover how chords map onto surprisingly simple geometric shapes in the more advanced spaces.
- You can use the chord-generation algorithm to generate chords from these simple shapes in the advanced spaces.
