Chris Gauthier Apps

Western music incorporates the same twelve tones over and overagain, but there are many musical universes out there! MicrotonalExplorer (MtX) is your guide to those universes. Easily create anequal-tempered scale with any number of tones and any arrangementof intervals, then experiment with your new scale, playing chordsand riffs. The edit mode lets you add and delete tones, thenspecify how many steps to place between each tone and the next. Youare not limited to half steps and whole steps; try thirds, fifths,sevenths, whatever you like. MtX runs all the calculations for youimmediately. At any point, flip over to play mode to test yourscale. Six octaves are available, as well as several differentinstrument selections (more on the way!) Scales may be saved toyour device and retrieved for later use. Standard major, minor, andpentatonic scales are already provided to get you started. Wherewill you go from here?

Quencher is a music-making app that allows easy editing of tracksand notes, plus the ability to customize scales and instruments.The main composer view supports any number of tracks, each of whichmay be of any length. Each track is assigned its own scale,instrument, time signature, volume, and balance. The user entersand deletes notes using a built-in scale pad, and may cut, copy,paste, and transpose selected notes. Real-time playback issupported from any point in the score. All major, minor, andpentatonic scales are provided, and advanced users may create theirown equal-temperament scales from interval formulas. Blues,microtonal, and non-Western scales are among the possibilities.Thirty pre-defined instruments are available. Users may also createtheir own instrument sounds by blending custom harmonic waveformswith sawtooth and square waves. Tunable noise is also available tocreate percussion sounds. The user may apply tremolo and vibrato tothe end product. The built-in synthesizer comes tuned to concertpitch (A = 440Hz) and can be adjusted in the settings to supportother tunings. Users running Jelly Bean 4.3 and above may exporttheir scores to MP4 format.

You know, my website or application could really use someclipart. Not the cartoony kind, though, and not the kind wherepeoplefrom the 70's are playing tennis. No, I needsomethingabstract-looking, like those fancy curly things at the topofnewspapers. Or maybe like a Rorschach test. Yes, that'sdefinitelywhat I want. Oh, and there has to be lots of it.If you've ever said anything like that, this is your luckyday.Iconist generates abstract clip art. Lots of it, as a matteroffact. Scroll through a list of 65,000 clips, then reshuffleandscroll though another. And another. You want four levels ofdetail?It's there. Monochrome, two colors, three colors, fourcolors? Wegot that. Custom sizes from 64 x 64 to 2048 x 2048? Allyours.Mirror it horizontally or vertically, or both--or don'tmirror itat all. It's up to you. Tap your favorites and they'resent to theAndroid Gallery, where you can share them, upload them,or justgaze rapturously at them. Your call.

More music than humanly possible.