A chordal musical instrument for your thumbs! Play it here on a phone.
Or listen here: ✨ https://twitter.com/search?q=%23autokalimba&f=video ✨
(I will be very happy if you tweet your own performances and tag them #autokalimba!!)
- Press a bass note key on the left to play it.
- Press a chord key on the right to play a chord on the last bass note you played!
- The middle slider controls the pitch range of bass notes.
- Wiggle your thumb up and down on the chord key to add vibrato.
- Press Settings in the top-left to tweak instrument and strum behavior.
- With split keys enabled, press the bottom part on a bass key to play a 5 in the bass.
- There are some hacky QWERTY controls (enable Horizontal chords under settings and hit some keys to find the layout).
- Triads
- Guitar: SpeedY on freesound.
- Kalimba: arioke on freesound.
- Rhodes: tim.kahn on freesound (low, high).
- Toy: From the Mario Paint soundfont.
- Piano: Samulis on freesound.
- Fluffy: From the Animal Crossing soundfont.
- FM: From a certain popular FM synthesizer.
- Honk: From season 3, episode 1 of Breaking Bad.
- Subtractive: Made with the freeware VST Charlatan.
- Marimba: Samulis on freesound.
- Musicbox: UbikPhonik on freesound.
- Bass: From the FluidR3_GM soundfont.
- Saw: From the Animal Crossing: New Horizons soundfont.
- Wah: From the Animal Crossing: New Horizons soundfont.
- Pan: From the Animal Crossing: New Horizons soundfont.
- Vibraphone: From the Wii Music soundfont.
- Sine: From the Wii menu soundfont.
When I made the repository, I only knew I was making something like a digital autoharp. The name "autokalimba" was suggested by @profanegeometry on Twitter, and it stuck, but foldr.moe/harp is easier to type into a URL bar, so I didn't want to change the repository name.
Those are: 7sus4, 13sus4, m7♭5, and dim7. I had to get a bit creative to fit everything on the buttons.
By the way, the II/ button plays chords like D/C or E♭/D♭. It's a nice Lydian scale-y sound.
Your vibrato code causes slight pitch drift when I don't exactly center my thumb on the chord button!!
Yeah! Isn't it cute??