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Tonematrix makes music-making easy and fun - Time Waster
Tonematrix by AM Laboratory is a very fun and easy-to-use music sequencing toy. It's a 16 x 16 grid of grey boxes, and clicking in a box will turn it on. Boxes that have been turned on go white, and you will quickly see that each line of boxes has its own individual tone.
You can very quickly just click and drag all over the place to get a fast sense of how Tonematrix works, but the fun is in actually arranging your notes in a way that makes sense. Luckily, it's easy to make music that sounds good because rather than using a major or chromatic scale, Tonematrix uses a pentatonic scale. You may have noticed that if you play only the black keys on a piano, it's fairly easy to play something that sounds nice - that's because together the black keys make up a pentatonic scale.
What fun is making some music if you can't save it and come back to it? The makers of Tonematrix agreed, and built in the ability to copy and paste a series of comma-separated numbers representing each individual composition. For example, if you copy the following sequence of numbers and right-click on Tonematrix and choose "Paste", you will hear my first composition with Tonematrix:
36896,32772,33280,36868,32896,32772,33280,32788,16420,32768,33286,8192,32900,32768,16966,32768
Paste your favorite composition in the comments, and let's have some fun!
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsGPMay 12th 2009 11:10AM
idk why you aren't linking audiotool
http://www.hobnox.com/audiotool
jonathanMay 14th 2009 3:22PM
12312,3840,96,118802,4738,162,100352,152,26176,0,66568,83176,16384,23564,16944,17280
JeffreyMay 12th 2009 12:22PM
The black keys on the piano aren't a pentatonic scale. Pentatonic just means "five notes". The black keys are sharps and flats.
Jason ClarkeMay 12th 2009 1:15PM
Yes, a pentatonic scale is any 5 note scale - which the black keys on the piano happen to be. The most common pentatonic scale is the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th notes of the major scale, which if you start on F# the black keys make up.
Ashish BogawatMay 13th 2009 1:04PM
16912,16904,17540,16386,36864,16392,24576,16656,34912,16400,24832,16392,36904,16408,16396,16394
TobidashiMay 12th 2009 12:54PM
66560,64,16512,64,4128,576,1024,512,16640,33288,16452,10242,17444,2056,1060,512
DustinMay 12th 2009 12:06PM
Fun.
2,1154,2304,32768,0,0,32768,1040,0,32768,0,0,2,6,4,61440
VincentMay 12th 2009 3:06PM
Didn't realise we could copy/paste, but here what I came up with after a few minutes:
107016,16,67712,4,103680,16,160,86528,160,103440,128,73768,70660,64,103556,0
sniping_dreamerMay 12th 2009 11:02PM
This is ridiculously awesome. Now I have new ways to procrastinate!
Timmy P.May 12th 2009 9:34PM
52280,34816,34872,104448,17866,69642,17418,70084,52234,34826,35274,104448,17464,69632,16384,65550
This is quite addiciting.
unclejames9May 12th 2009 11:29PM
Amazingly creative, i just love this one. I am gonna be on it for next many days.
J5892May 13th 2009 1:19AM
52280,34816,34872,104448,17866,69642,17418,70084,52234,34826,35274,104448,17464,69632,16384,65550
Eric D.May 13th 2009 5:33PM
Someone NEEDS to make an app like this for the iPhone.
DiddleMay 13th 2009 6:01PM
They do, it's called ToneBoard.
BoogsterMay 16th 2009 12:49AM
What the? Believe it or not, StumbleUpon! dragged me there BEFORE this was posted! Looks like I was there first LOL
BoogsterMay 16th 2009 12:57AM
40960,22554,660,98432,128,10266,274,71172,960,2120,99152,49252,71682,74304,44164,8
JordanMay 18th 2009 3:36PM
37024,64,4224,0,37184,4224,8448,8192,49792,16704,8352,2128,32768,83976,32784,83968
LoftLabMay 20th 2009 4:54PM
If you like ToneMatrix, then you're going to love the free app TonePad on the iPhone/iPod touch!
http://tinyurl.com/tonepad