In development · Windows · macOS · Linux
Tezeraq is a music workstation that brings sequencing, synthesis, sampling and sound design together. Build rhythms and melodies that evolve as they loop, and open any instrument or effect to design it from the ground up. Designed for mouse, keyboard and multitouch from day one.
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01 · Patterns
A phrase is built from groups of notes, and groups hold other groups. Each has its own length and its own loop, and time is kept as exact fractions, so three against four stays lined up for as long as it runs.
Add operators to a group and choose which passes they act on. The Result lane shows what will sound.
02 · Sound
Instruments and effects are graphs of modules. The panel shows the controls that matter; Graph shows how it is made. Change it while it plays and the sound carries on.
There are more than a hundred modules, sorted by what they do: oscillators, physical models, drums, filters, delays, dynamics, envelopes. Save what you build to the Library and use it in any song.
03 · Samples
Drop samples on pads to make a kit, map zones across the keyboard, or cut a loop into slices and play them. The sample editor is one step from any pad.
04 · Audio
A recording or a loop goes in the piano roll as a note does. It follows the tempo in one of four ways, and each region has its own fades, gain and reverse. Select one and its waveform opens under the roll, with its start, end and fades.
Also inside
An FM synth with 32 algorithms and an editor for every operator. Drop a .syx bank on the window to load its voices.
EQ, dynamics, limiter, delay, reverb, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo, crunch, degrade, frequency shifter, wow and flutter.
A channel for every track, inserts, sends to shared effects, and an oscilloscope and a spectrum to put anywhere in a chain.
Record notes with a metronome and a count-in. Capture makes a phrase of what you just played. Resample a track into a new sample.
Give a song a key and a scale, play in key, and transpose the whole song at once.
Seven themes, key bindings you can change, and MIDI in.
Every input
Tezeraq is designed for mouse, keyboard and multitouch together, not fitted for touch afterwards. A long press opens what a right-click opens, a pinch zooms the view under your fingers, and a swipe scrolls any view.
So the studio you build on a desktop is the one a tablet will show: the same songs, devices and gestures.
Where it is
Tezeraq is not out yet. It is being built and tested on Windows, macOS and Linux, where a small private alpha, by invitation, will run first. iOS and Android are planned.
Version 1.0 comes when its instruments, presets and songs are finished.
Tezeraq is created by Christopher Wolfe, creator of Jasuto, key contributor to Moog's Model D, Model 15, and Animoog apps, and former Core Audio engineer at Apple.
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