Product information
Mucoder: Tonespace
Chord Generator and Visualizer
What is Tonespace?
- A chord generator and visualizer
- Displays chords and scales on a grid, making it easy to understand their structure
- Displays chords on a piano keyboard, making it easy to play them
- Supports 39 chord types, 25 chord voicings/inversions, 21 scales, 18 keys, and 50 different grids
- Accepts easy, single-note MIDI input for triggering or viewing chords
- Can output chords over MIDI to your favorite synth
- Acts either as a VST or Audio Unit plugin for your DAW, or as a standalone application
How Do I Use It?
- Audition and play chords while you move the mouse around in a grid-like space - or use a traditional MIDI keyboard instead
- Learn how musical scales and keys work, and how chords relate to these, using the simple octave-based spaces
- Discover how chords map onto surprisingly simple geometric shapes in the more advanced spaces
- Use chord-generation algorithms to fit chords to scales and keys automatically
- Trigger chords from monophonic midi input and record the played chords using midi output
System Requirements
- Available as VST, AU or standalone app
- For Windows, Mac and Linux
- Now with 64-bit support
Installation Instructions
Installing on Windows
First extract the windows .zip archive to a directory on your file system.
On Windows you can use either the:
- Standalone 32-bit version (tonespace.exe) or 64-bit (tonespace_64.exe). This needs no installation, just run it and you are set.
- VST plugin 32-bit version 32-bit (tonespace.dll) or 64-bit (tonespace_64.dll). Copy this dll into your VST directory of your DAW host and run your VST host.
Please Note: if you plan on using the older 1.0 VST version of tonespace side-by-side with tonespace 2, it is recommended to rename the VST dll of one of these versions. This is only an issue for Windows users, as tonespace 1.0 was Windows-only.
How?
- Rename the v1.0 tonespace.dll to tonespace1.dll if you have no old projects that depend on that plugin version
- Or (less preferred) rename the v2.0 tonespace.dll to tonespace2.dll if you have old projects that depend on tonespace 1.0
Installing on Mac OS X
First mount the OS X .dmg archive on your mac by double clicking it
On OS X you can use either the:
- Standalone version (tonespace.app). This needs no installation, just run it and you are set. This is a universal binary containing both 32 and 64-bit versions.
- Audio Unit and VST plugin version (tonespace.component). This is a universal binary containing both AU and VST versions, in both 32 and 64-bit versions.
- Setting up the AU version: Copy the tonespace.component file into your AU directory (/Users/yourname/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components) and run your AU host.
- Setting up the VST version: Copy the tonespace.component file into your VST directory (/Users/yourname/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST) and rename it to tonespace.vst. Then run your VST host.
Installing on Linux
First extract the Linux .zip archive to a directory on your file system.
On Linux you can use either the:
- Standalone version (tonespace). You first need to set the executable bit on this binary using the command 'chmod +x tonespace'. Then just run it and you are set.
- VST plugin version (tonespace.so). Copy this file into your VST directory of your DAW host and run your VST host.
- All binaries for Linux are currently 64-bit only.
