Kirar
Six strings, Karplus-Strong with a goat-skin bowl. Strum with a swipe, pluck with 1 to 6.
Kemekem for Mac · Free beta
Compose in qenet,
not in C major.
Kirar, masinko and washint under your fingers. A piano roll whose rows are the six degrees of Tizita, Bati, Ambassel or Anchihoye. A studio built for Ethiopian music, native on Mac.
macOS 14+ · Apple silicon · 38 MB
Three instruments,
modelled, not sampled.
Every note is synthesized as you play it. Pluck, bow and breathe from the keyboard, the trackpad or a MIDI controller.
Masinko
One bowed string, continuous pitch. Slide along the neck for glissando, press sideways for bow pressure.
Washint
Four holes, five notes, two registers. Hold space to breathe. The breath is the volume.
ቅኝት · Qenet
A piano roll that only knows the right notes.
Pick Tizita and the roll shows six rows: the six degrees of Tizita. Switch to Ambassel and every clip, every string and every hole retunes. You cannot play a wrong note. You can only play a different qenet.
| ትዝታ | Tizita | 1 · 2 · 3 · 5 · 6 |
| ባቲ | Bati | 1 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 7 |
| አምባሰል | Ambassel | 1 · ♭2 · 4 · 5 · ♭6 |
| አንቺሆዬ | Anchihoye | 1 · ♭2 · 4 · ♯5 · 6 |
Qenet rollTizita theme · take 03Grid 1/8Quantize On
፰C5degree 8 · octave
፮A4degree 6
፭G4degree 5
፫E4degree 3
፪D4degree 2
፩C4degree 1 · root
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