Make it your reed.
Hold a key and lean into it: slide up for more breath, down for less, and further down to hush a held note.
Sound is off
BenchContour · Anchored · Breath-led · Soft
Three fixed reed constructions. Switch between phrases; each has its own pressure-aware tuning.
Only fresh entrances vary. Replay a phrase with the same take number to hear it again.
Overlapping keys carry the same breath. Turn off to give each note a new beginning.
Anchored uses a measured pressure map for the selected reed.
Ready when you are. Escape stops everything.
MAKE IT YOURS · EXPERIMENTALCarve your own reedSculpt the tip, heart and back, choose its width and staple, then break it in. No two pieces of cane are alike.
Move a slider and the reed is test-blown at gentle and strong breath.
Breaking in plays every note and measures its tuning: a few seconds on a fast computer, up to a minute on a phone.
Five ways to try your reed.
Try separated notes, repeated entrances, a breath swell or a hush.
Your chosen reed stays fixed throughout.
Pick a phrase, then listen to its entrance, held sound, and ending.
Stack a few takes.
Record a take against a click while your other layers play along, snap it to the beat, then add more. The mix is rendered offline, so it comes out clean however busy your computer is.
Choose a reed and settings above, then record. The take uses the reed, breath and Wet settings you have now.
Write a layerNotes and lengths, no playing needed. Good for a steady harmony line.
Hold a key and press Add held note (or turn on Step entry) to add it at the chosen length.
A written layer plays at the project tempo from bar 1, with the reed, breath and Wet settings you have when you add it. Notes from G2 to G5 play (a carved reed only where it is broken in). Change the tempo and written layers follow it.
Snap moves each note start to the grid and stretches your breath and note ends with it, so the feel stays yours. Timing shifts a layer earlier to make up for what you heard late; it starts at your device’s reported delay. Mixes and layers are 24-bit stereo WAV (zipped when saved from claude.ai) and start one bar before bar 1 with the default count-in.
A reed of your own.
Save the construction, breath, tuning, ending and take number. Your copy stays in this browser; the downloaded file can travel with you.
No reed saved yet.
Keep a gesture.
Record your notes, breath and bends. Keep a gesture you like, then listen again.
Recording captures controls, not microphone audio. Replaying uses the gesture’s recorded control changes.
No gesture recorded yet.
WAV uses the current phrase and its controls. It excludes the listening volume.
Leave yourself a note.
Which reed would you keep? Does it speak easily across the keyboard? Are the varied entrances appealing, too different, or too subtle?
Downloads a file for you to keep or share. Nothing is sent.
Pressure, tuning & calculation
A shaped reed, a measured reference.
Each preset fixes opening, resonance, damping and contact. Anchored changes tube delay using note and smoothed pressure. It does not measure the audio to correct pitch. The inherited single-mass reed model does not simulate cane thickness profiles.
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Each reed has separate calibration for 44.1 and 48 kHz, at both calculation qualities. Attacks and note transitions can still move in pitch. See the study report for measured limits.
The pitch display estimates the sounding fundamental. A changing or noisy sound may not give a stable reading.
Experimental pressure can fail to start a note. This wider range is separate from the main Breath control.
γ = 1 is the unconstrained reed spring’s closing-pressure scale, before mouthpiece contact. It is not full volume.
Higher rate is the starting point. Standard may help if playback breaks up on your device; its tone can differ.
Changing the calculation rate stops the phrase. Short and Soft endings shape the breath fall and use an output taper. Sound weight changes the output filter; it does not change the reed.
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