NOTE TO TONE
Random words to unstick you
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
When the idea will not come, when you have been circling the same thought too long — a phrase with no connection to anything can be what breaks it open.
When an idea will not come. When you have been thinking about one thing
for too long.
Something entirely unrelated — a stranger's conversation overheard —
can be what unlocks it. NOTE TO TONE generates words with no connection
to anything, to work the stiffness out of an over-focused mind.
■ Random words, to loosen your head
What appears is a short phrase that does not quite make sense.
"a dry hourglass" — "unravel the heron" — "desperate for the layover"
Look at it, and force yourself to find a meaning in it.
The moment you try, your head starts looking down a different road.
That is the whole point.
■ Words, music, and keeping them
The words are random, yet now and then one arrives that somehow shows
you a scene — one you want to keep. So you can stock them.
And from that word, a piece of music of its own is made, and kept
alongside it. The same phrase always makes the same music.
■ The music is built on the spot, by a synthesiser
Each phrase is measured along six axes — light, motion, weight, grit,
space and warmth — and the music is built to match. Nothing is a
recording being picked from a shelf.
The sound is made by the engine from our music app ARPJAM Studio, a
serious synthesiser that plays itself. That engine is built into
NOTE TO TONE in full, so you can hear the music without owning
ARPJAM Studio.
■ How to use it
- Open the app and a phrase appears
- Press SOUND and music is generated for that phrase
- Press KEEP to save the phrase and its music; look back from Stocks
- Once unlocked, a download button appears. It saves an ARPJAM settings
file (a JAM file) to edit in ARPJAM Studio, or to add to a playlist
in ARPJAM Player
■ Unlock
Free use gives you three phrases and their music each time you open
the app. A single purchase unlocks unlimited phrases and JAM file
downloads. Nothing recurring.
■ Good for
- A brief that will not start
- Circling the same thought
- Resetting your head before a meeting
- Finding a way into a piece of music
- Looking at something meaningless before sleep
May a good idea find you.
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Credits:
PIANO: Salamander Grand Piano V3 — Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0)
Ratings & Reviews
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- Fixed the labels on the bottom buttons breaking onto two lines on iPhone.
- Improved how long phrases wrap. English now breaks into lines of even length, and Japanese breaks at phrase boundaries instead of in the middle of a word.
- Corrected Japanese particles in the generated phrases, where a doubled particle or the wrong subject could make the sentence read oddly.
The developer, Takashi Tsunoda, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Takashi Tsunoda
- Size
- 17.6 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Unlock $0.99
- Copyright
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