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[eddietree]

In an effort to mix color theory and music creation, I have concocted this visual music composer application.

Each color on the wheel corresponds to one musical note in the C-Maj-7th chord. The color wheel has four octaves of notes that may be used to color the melody of the song. The Major-7th chord was chosen because I find it to be the most pleasant out of all the chords.

This project was coded in C++ using OpenFrameworks. Coded in two days.


==== CONTROLS ====
F - Fullscreen
Space - Toggle Play/Pause
Right-Click - Sample Color
Middle-Click - Destroy Color


Any feedback is greatly appreciated!


Also, I made a

demonstrating its coolness.

Download Here  - Windows (2.1 MB)

[jotapeh]

Pretty cool.  

[JoeManaco]

Sweeeet

[Ant]

This is very, very nice. 

If there was a way of manipulating the sounds and length of the tune and the ability to export it then I would definitely use this in my games. I'm a big fan of sfxr and for people like me who don't know jack about music nor have the software, programs like these are just so damned useful. I really hope you continue to develop this.

[chumez]

Perhaps you could add an option to change the color hue, so you can
have major, minor, harmonic minor and diatonic chords. The darker colors,
blue, gray and black could symbolize minor, and the brighter colors, yellow,
white, green, red, could symbolize major.

It would be fun to experiment and fiddle around with it and make awesome tunes.
And not to mention you made it in just 2 days!  Though I'm not familiar with openframeworks 
but I still got to say it's very cool

[george]

This is really nice, could you map middle click to a key also, it won't work with the MMB on my laptop.

[fucked up + weird horse??]

lol the random button produces stuff that sounds more musical than my attempts

[Navineous]

Agree'd. This is really cool. But can it be a bit more complex? Like faster tempo and different instruments? :D I think it's a great idea though! Needs a bit more but I love the idea and looks.  Cheers.

[eddietree]

Thanks for your kind words! 

When I find some time, I would definitely try to add more features. And thanks for all those tips. I feel that allowing the user to change tempos as well as the chords/instruments would be a really neat feature as well.

lol the random button produces stuff that sounds more musical than my attempts

LOL. That's pretty funny


I was thinking of having Square Boxes be percussion notes, thus allowing the user to visually design a beat.

[mcc]

Huh, neat!

I've been working on an iPad project this month that's turned out sorta similar:



Though I'm using polar theta for time instead of polar r.

[eddietree]

I've been working on an iPad project this month that's turned out sorta similar:

Really cool. Do you have any videos of it that I could see?