HexyTime
Your Ears Were Right All Along
The iPad instrument that reveals what 12-tone music has been hiding from you.
That nagging feeling when a chord rings out and something just doesn't settle right? You've been hearing 12-tone equal temperament—a mathematical compromise designed for convenience, not beauty. Every "perfectly tuned" piano has been slightly out of tune by design.
HexyTime transforms your iPad into an expressive microtonal instrument. Through a vibrant hexagonal keyboard, three tuning systems, and colors that reveal harmonic relationships, discover pure intervals and exotic scales you never knew existed.
Three Tuning Systems
- • 12-TET—The familiar standard tuning. Start here, then discover why musicians have searched for alternatives for centuries.
- • Just Intonation—Pure intervals based on simple ratios. Hear the thirds and fifths your ears have been craving.
- • 31-EDO—31 equal divisions of the octave. Access quarter-tone scales, Arabic maqamat, and impossible harmonic colors.
The Hexagonal Advantage
- • Triangular triads—Major and minor chords form simple triangular shapes.
- • Consistent intervals—Same direction for the same musical distance, always.
- • One shape, all keys—Master a chord once, play it anywhere.
- • Three layouts—Harmonic Table, Wicki-Hayden, Bosanquet-Wilson.
Expression & Features
- • Y-Axis Velocity—Touch top for soft, bottom for loud. Visible, precise expression.
- • Slide Aftertouch—Move vertically for vibrato, swells, and articulations.
- • MPE MIDI Output—Every microtonal pitch bend transmits to any MPE synth or DAW.
- • Color-coded intervals—See harmonic relationships without theory textbooks.
< 20ms
Touch latency
60fps
Smooth rendering
10+ Touches
Full polyphony
All MIDI
Virtual, BT, USB, Network