PolyHarp 4+
An extremely chorded zither.
Henry Lowengard
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- $4.99
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Description
Let's play some chords! Let's tune those chord strings to any frequencies! Let's play up to 1000 of them!
PolyHarp is a virtual musical instrument and a thought experiment.
It takes the basic idea of a chorded zither and extends it to large numbers of chord choices, made out of any kinds of intervals, multi-string courses, fretting, and massive polyphony. It's a testbed for harmonic theory as well as a great multi touch simulation of the good old "idiot zither" you have in the attic. PolyHarp can translate many of these innovations to MIDI and is a powerful MIDI controller.
PolyHarp comes with a large number of presets, exploring many variants on stringed instruments, but its real power is its ability to build strange new chords, layouts, and controls into otherwise impossible instruments.
PolyHarp supports Audiobus 3, including saving setups, and IAA.
What’s New
Version 1.0.18
A number of fixes, improvements like being able to paste parameters to all other string areas, more robust onscreen rendering, strings can be offset by hertz as well as cents, some rudimentary MPE support. More to come, but this is somewhat exciting.
Ratings and Reviews
So much better than what you think it is.
Simply brilliant and deep
Brilliant genius
This app creator must be an enlightened sound designer! This app is so intricate and Intense with its almost overwhelming. This thing so far is like a stringed blank slate with anything you want to create even odd harmonic subdividing it’s here. Midi out and your golden. All his apps are creative but this is the magnum opus
Weird and Beautiful
Such a deep and deeply weird little app. A simple idea done extremely well. Do it!
App Privacy
The developer, Henry Lowengard, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Henry Lowengard
- Size
- 17.1 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.4 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- ©2018-24 Henry Lowengard
- Price
- $4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.