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MIDI Playground

Explore a MIDI score by changing its parts, sound and position.

Launch MIDI Playground Best with headphones · Sound begins when you press Play
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MIDI Playground showing a layered note field, channel controls and transport
A score you can touch. Musical layers, sound controls and transport in one workspace.

About this piece

Start with the supplied Flim MIDI study: isolate a part, change its sound or rhythm, and move it in space. Load your own MIDI file to explore another composition; it stays in your browser.

Field notes

  1. Press Play to hear the synthesized score; headphones reveal its spatial changes.
  2. Select and solo a layer, then try a material or effect preset to hear the change.
  3. Use Field, Score and Space to view the composition in different ways.
  4. Load a MIDI file from your device to start a new study. The file stays in your browser.

In the details

Colored musical layers in the MIDI Playground field view
Follow the layers. Each colour marks a different part of the composition.
MIDI Playground effect controls and preset experiments
Shape a voice. Explore pitch, brightness, attack and tail for the selected layer.