Magic circle metronome

The circle metronome is totally rewritten to become a magic rhythm tool. Now we have two independent loops with variable meters - both the top and bottom numbers are editable on the fly. You can subdivide a measure into up to 32 beats and take up to 32 of them. It makes this metronome an incredible tool to build complex beat patterns.

There are 5 metronome sounds to choose from. And the sound performance is great even for up to 500 BPM available to dial. It could run faster, but imagine dividing it by even 16 steps... I think the limit is reasonable.

Then we have a tap-tempo button, an option to detect tempo from audio source and also a very easy to use central circle dial to change the BPM by hand. Multiply or divide it by two or increment it by one unit at a time with buttons around. Or simply drag the number left-to-right or bottom-to-top to increase the BPM.

You can set the volume and panning for each of the loops independently. It's very useful in creating inticate polyrhythm patterns. PRO-TIP: double click the volume slider to quickly switch it between 0 and 0.75. Double click panning controls to switch pan between 0 and +-0.5.

This tool was one of the first thing to be built when the new version of Chromatone started and now it's fully rebuilt with new powers and understanding. Have fun playing with it!

Chroma profiles and starting midi

Any chroma now can have a profile to explore. It includes a circle of notes, a title, piano keys, chroma row and a waveform visualization. And also some midi parsing started – visualizing the .mid files is tested and works fine. MIDI-recording is found - yet needs to be implemented later.

Updated structure

Theory was split into Color and Music, while Practice became Apps. Now we have 6 main sections and to make the growing info more accessible.

Beautiful spectrogram

Audiomotion analyzer shows a beautiful spectrogram on the canvas. Plus some more info about music notation.

LCH and LAB mixers

Deep dive into modern color models. Very intuitive and informative tools to browse color spaces.

Color theory mixers

Theory becomes more practical too. Interactive color mixers for RGB and CMYK spaces are just the beginning. HSL and LAB mixers are on the way!

Theory becomes interactive

We've got all main practice tools in place and now it's time to make the theory part of the site fully interactive. Static SVGs are replaced with moving and and sounding illustrations for you to explore.

Theory tools started

RGB and CMYK mixers right in the color models article. More to come!

✨🥳 The 1.0 chromatone.center is online!

One and a half months of coding and designing almost every day and the fresh new Chromatone.center is online! We've moved the shop to Ko-fi.com and so now we can finally get rid of old Wordpress web-site completely. It was too slow for editing and browsing. Now the site is hosted on GitHub pages and is very fast and much more reliable. Have fun!

Chroma analyzer and more

With Meyda lib we are getting chroma pitch class contents for any incoming audio. That makes the system complete – you analyze any song, find the notes there, then play them with visual feedback either on acoustic instrument with pitch roll or with a midi instument win midi-monitor. Need to add some more research info, like the harmonics simulator and the sound wave simulator in order to get to the v1.0. Soon!