mucoder releases tonespace 2 (v2.0.294 Public Beta)

mucoder has announced the availability of a major new release of tonespace, which was an entry in the 2006 KVR Developer Challenge.

tonespace 2 (currently available as Public Beta version 2.0.294) is now available for free for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in stand-alone and VST and AU instrument plug-in formats.

What is tonespace?

• It's a different, more intuitive music keyboard, combined with a chorder.
• It supports over 50 different grids, 14 scales, 18 keys, 30+ chord types and 10 chord voicings.
• It can function as a VST or Audio Unit plug-in, processing incoming MIDI events and/or generating outgoing MIDI.
• You don't need to use MIDI though: there is also a standalone executable which contains its own little synth for a fast start.

What can you do with it?

• You can play and visualize chords while you move the mouse around in a grid-like space.
• You can learn how musical scales and keys work, and how chords relate to these, using the simple octave-based spaces.
• You can visually discover how chords map onto surprisingly simple geometric shapes in the more advanced spaces.
• You can use the chord-generation algorithm to generate chords from these simple shapes in the advanced spaces.