kan! v0.1.0

kan! is a free, calm rhythm game you play on a real instrument. It listens through your microphone and follows the notes you play. This is the first public version: early, made for calm practice, and open to everyone who wants to help it grow.

Website: https://kan.kairophos.link

What you can do

• Play levels on your instrument: notes travel on lanes by pitch, and kan! checks the pitch and the timing as you play. Forgiving by default; strict judging only if you choose it.
• Practise with mods: Wait for me (the level waits for each note), Practice (loop a part, slow it down), Half time, Easy, and challenges such as By heart and Hard rock.
• Make levels in kan!forge: bring a song from your computer, let it write the notes, correct them in a piano roll, and test the level before you share it.
• Split a song into its parts on your computer: the companion plays under you while you play; the reference is the full performance to learn from. The first separation downloads the separation model once.
• An account, if you want one: level downloads and leaderboards on kan!'s own server. Create it on the website or in the game. Playing and making levels never need it.

Instruments

Tested on the ocarina (developed on a 12-hole alto C ocarina) and on instruments that play one note at a time. Other instruments and chords will come as the community tests them: if you play something else, your feedback shapes what comes next.

Install

Download the zip for your system below, unzip it and open kan!. You need a microphone; the one in a laptop works.

System	File
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit	kan-win-x64.zip
macOS 13 or newer, Apple silicon	kan-osx-arm64.zip
macOS 13 or newer, Intel	kan-osx-x64.zip
Linux, 64-bit	kan-linux-x64.zip

kan! is not signed yet, so your system warns you the first time:

• Windows: "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway.
• macOS: "cannot check the developer". Control-click kan! and choose Open.

Good to know

• The microphone is analysed on your computer while you play. Nothing it hears is recorded or sent.
• kan! sends no email, so there is no password reset yet. Keep your password somewhere safe; if you forget it, see https://kan.kairophos.link/#password.
• The level catalogue is just starting: the first free levels arrive soon.
• Not there yet: chat, multiplayer and spectating. The intro is silent until kan! has its own music.
• The interface is in English. Other languages still show some text from osu!.
• Windows and macOS builds are new and still need testing on real machines. Please tell us what you find: https://github.com/KairoPhos13/kan-rhythm/issues

Thanks

kan! is built on osu!lazer (MIT licence) by ppy. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by osu! or ppy. Made by KairoPhos.