Harmonics Wheel app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 5608 ratings )
Music Education
Developer: malcolm cecil
4.99 USD
Current version: 1.0.7, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 25 Aug 2015
App size: 58.46 Mb

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Harmonics Wheel is a complete music theory system as well as being a playable instrument laid out in a logical and easy to play format. It’s based on the harmonic and sub harmonic series, which are the basis of all music. It is a powerful tool for learning the basic relationships between harmonics, roots, chords, scales and the cycle of 4ths and 5ths.

Harmony can be viewed in several ways. Many musicians favor the chord progression method where each harmony within a song is represented by a chord symbol. While this method works it has a major drawback in that it does not show the key modulations of the music. Chords can change as often as every beat but the keys that the music modulates through move much more slowly and can cover several measures. Harmonics Wheel utilizes the “key” approach, which makes improvising much easier.

A common chord substitution method in jazz is to modulate to the complimentary key a flattened fifth away from the main key at will. Harmonics Wheel makes this easy by having both the Main Key and the Complimentary Key available at all times on separate “playbars” that are mirror images of each other. Utilizing the “Harmonics Wheel Pie” key changes can be effected instantaneously while simultaneously playing the “playbars”.

With very little practice one can become adept at playing the “playbars” and “harmonics wheel pie” producing exciting and complex harmonic and melodic structures that would take many years of practice and theory training to accomplish on a traditional keyboard or fretboard.

The record function in “Harmonics Wheel” enables users to keep their compositions and play them back in any order at will instantaneously.

“Harmonics Wheel” includes a Drum Machine and a “Randomizer” that greatly enhance the users compositions and add to the enjoyment and learning capabilities of the app.
- 10 Instruments -- Piano, Vibes, Acoustic Guitar, Rhodes, Piano/Strings, Bell/Strings, Guitar/Strings, Orchestron, Clavisk, and Resoslide.
- Record, Save, and Play Back (on the fly)
- Randomizer
- Key Selector Wheel
- Playbar, root key on the right and alternative flattened fifth scale on the left
- Drum Machine
- Soft Sync
- Playback over recording
- Playback Key Selector (on the fly)
- Playback Instrument Selector (on the fly)
- Independent LivePlay Keys Selector
- Independent LivePlay Instrument Selector
- Title Bar Toggle for Harmonics Display
- Current and Alternative Keys Display
- Individual Note Labels for all Keys
- Lots of Help Files
- Octave Selector for LivePlay
- 4 Individual Odd and Even Harmonics Mute Buttons as wll as a Main Mute All Button

Optimized for iPhone 6, IOS 8.0 or better.