bluebucket / playground01 — MIDI MATERIALS
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LIVE NOTE FIELD

A score you can touch.

Press Play, then drag the field to shape the selected layer.

36 experiments · selected layer

Choose one experiment. Solo the selected layer to hear its changes clearly.

Drop a MIDI. Unpack its world.

Hear one change at a time.

01Press Play

Let the composition run.

02Select a playing layer

For Flim, choose Upper melody.

03Press its S button

Solo lets you hear that part alone.

04Try Octave down

Start here → Octave down. Reset layer brings it back up.

Then try Muffled, Echo steps and Around your head. Each has a description of what to listen for. Some layers have long rests; their controls only affect them when they play. Presets keep your Solo selection.

Each experiment reveals its own controls underneath. Adjust its echo level, pitch, swing or other settings directly. Layer level changes how loudly that part plays. Reset experiment restores its starting effect settings.

Round knobs are draggable. Drag up to increase, down to decrease. The sliders underneath do the same thing.

All controls and shortcuts

1. Start with Flim, or load your own. Standard MIDI formats 0 and 1 work here. Files stay in your browser. Track and channel parts are separated; drum parts are split into kick, snare, hats and other percussion.

2. Select a layer. Mute it, listen alone, or adjust its level. The controls on the right affect that layer only. Material changes the instrument playing its notes.

3. Explore the four control banks. Tone changes its surface; Space changes its surroundings; Time changes its pacing; Shape rearranges its notes. Already scheduled notes can take half a second to catch up. Existing notes finish naturally.

4. Touch the visual. Field: left/right moves the sound; up/down opens or softens tone. Score: click to seek. Space: drag an orb above YOU for front, below YOU for behind; dragging stops its automatic orbit. All gestures have equivalent sliders.

Hold this moment captures the selected layer’s current chord and repeats it until released. A/B compares your changes against the original note arrangement with our default instruments. Reset layer starts that layer over.

These are synthesized interpretations of MIDI, not the original recordings. Pitch bends and detailed MIDI controller performances are not imported. Grain breaks synthesized notes into small pulses; it does not sample the original recording.

Space play/pause · Esc pause · Start at a comfortable output level.