musicinkloop: draw, play music

Plantation Lab

About this app

musicinkloop lets you play music theory by drawing.

PAPER: draw a line and hear it. Height is pitch, left to right is time. The paper is tuned to a pentatonic scale, so anything you draw sounds in tune. Nine colours are nine instruments: keys, pluck, bell, marimba, flute, strings, chime, bass and 8-bit.

BOUNCE: flick a dot and hear it pluck. Dots fly in straight lines and bounce off the frame; every wall they hit is a string, and where they hit sets the note. Nine colours are nine guitars: nylon, steel, muted, harmonic, bass, twelve-string, ukulele, thump and banjo. Tap a dot to hold it; flick it again to send it off.

Draw, erase, undo, or let the app doodle something for you
Add a bass line, drums and an arpeggio with one tap each
Change the tempo while it plays
Switch the paper to the grid view to see your drawing as notes
Tap the help button, then tap any control to learn what it does
Save pieces to the gallery and open them again
String paper pieces into a song, up to eight bars
Round paper: time goes around, pitch goes out
Sixteen keys to play along, and ink what you play
Export as WAV, MIDI, M4A or video; share it or save it to your phone
No account, no ads, no data collection. Works fully offline.

What’s new

Gallery, songs and keys.
- Gallery: save what you make and open it again later.
- Songs: string paper pieces into a song of up to eight bars.
- Round paper: a third mode where time goes around.
- Keys: sixteen keys to play along, and ink what you play.
- Export as WAV, MIDI, M4A or video, then share it or save it to your phone.