We want to do for the web browser what Samuel Halligan’s pop-up piano does for Ableton Live Suite: turn it into a visual and aural Rosetta stone that translates in real time between different visual and aural representations of music. You can read about the design process here, and read about the pitch wheel specifically here.Įventually we would like the aQWERTYon to show other real-time information as well: notes on the staff, chord symbols, and the like. I have been drawing scales and chords on the chromatic circle by hand for a long time, and I wanted to be able to produce them automatically. This idea has been in the pipeline for a while, but the impetus to finally push it to completion was my Fundamentals of Western Music class at the New School. These geometric visualizations are meant to support and complement your aural understanding of intervals and chords, the way that they do with rhythms on the Groove Pizza. If you play three or more notes at a time, they will form an orange shape. If you play two notes at a time, they will be connected by an orange line. Finally, orange notes are the ones that are currently being played.
Grey notes are outside the selected scale. Purple notes are neither bright nor dark, i.e. Green notes are “bright”–i.e., major, natural, sharp, or augmented. Blue notes are “dark”–i.e., minor, flat, or diminished. The color scheme on the pitch wheel is intended to give you some visual cues about how each scale is going to sound.
In addition to playing the built-in instruments, you can also use the aQWERTYon as a MIDI controller for any DAW or notation program via the IAC bus (Windows users will need to install MidiOX.) Turn the aQWERTYon’s volume to zero if you’re doing this. It visualizes the notes you’re playing on the chromatic circle in real time. Click the image to try it! (Be sure to whitelist it on your ad blocker or it won’t work.) Yesterday, we launched a new version of the app, the Theory aQWERTYon. The aQWERTYon maps scales to the keyboard so that there are no “wrong notes,” and so that each column of keys plays a chord. The name is short for “QWERTY accordion,” because the idea is to make the computer keyboard as accessible for novice musicians as the chord buttons on an accordion. Comment by KekeGotBeats ?Ĭan you check out my beat.A few years ago, the NYU Music Experience Design Lab launched a web application called the aQWERTYon. Comment by User 129840919ĭon't give her up! Comment by Eric Avilez GOD DAMNIT I THOUGHT IT WAS A RICKROLL Comment by RADIATION What the frick is dis Comment by A Very Fluffy Cat Why can't I find Rick Astley Comment by Xx -_- xX THIS ISNT WAHT I WANTED Comment by eat_pasta_and-chill_lol20īro this go hard Comment by inlovewithurmother Never gonna give u up no matter how u treat me :( Comment by Ashman
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