Hingebox

Made for iPhone Duo: fold the hinge and the sound bends with you. Close the phone and the groove keeps playing while the cover screen becomes the show: a dancing critter, a light-up step grid or a rhythm game made from your own beat. Hingebox is a pocket groovebox that's always in key, and it plays on every iPhone. Touch the pad and you're playing. ON IPHONE DUO: THE HINGE IS AN INSTRUMENT Fold the hinge in from wherever you hold it to push an effect: bloom, filter, dub echo, stutter, tape stop or a tilt EQ. Tilt for a wobble, a pitch bend or more space. Shake to mutate the beat. Stand the phone up like a tent and the inner screen throws a light show under it. CLOSE IT AND WATCH Close the phone and the music keeps playing while the cover screen becomes the show: Bop hops on the beat, or pick the panel, lcd, bars, scope, tunnel, horizon or lava. Or play catch the beat, a game made from your own kicks and snares. PLAY THE PAD Slide left and right for pitch, up and down for tone. Up to four fingers. Every note snaps to the key, and chords light up underneath. Chord mode plays only chord tones so nothing clashes, and easy mode snaps your fingers to the steps of the scale. Hold latches a note while you do something else. MAKE A BEAT Eight tracks of 16 steps: kick, snare, clap, hats, tom, perc and bass. Tap steps on, add accents, mute tracks, set swing and pump. Start from one of 23 grooves, from bubblegum house to one drop dub, or roll the dice for a new beat. Choose a key, one of 12 scales and one of 12 chord progressions. 45 SOUNDS, MADE FOR THE APP Leads, basses, keys, arps, pads and fx. Some are synthesized live, and the tine keys, soft pluck, air pad, celesta, warm bass and studio drum kit are sampled instruments we built from scratch. Add a tape bed of hiss and vinyl under it all. ARPEGGIATOR ON ANY SOUND Up, down, random, trill and more, from 1/32 to 1/4 with triplets. It plays what your fingers, a keyboard or a one-finger chord hold, and it follows the clock. LOOP IT Four loopers locked to the beat, 1, 2 or 4 bars long. Record, overdub, mute and clear while the groove keeps going. PLAYS WITH YOUR GEAR Send or follow MIDI clock, so Hingebox keeps time with a drum machine or a DAW. Play it from a MIDI keyboard over USB-C, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, with scale lock and one-finger chords, and send the hinge and tilt out as MIDI controllers. ON EVERY OTHER IPHONE The pad and controls share the screen, the touch fx strip does what the hinge does, and the game opens full screen from the fx tab. No account, no ads, no tracking. It keeps playing in the background and when the phone locks.