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a little autoharp for your phone and thumbs!

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# Autokalimba
A chordal musical instrument for your thumbs! [Play it here on a phone.](http://foldr.moe/harp/)

Or listen here: ✨ https://twitter.com/search?q=%23autokalimba&f=video ✨

(I will be very happy if you tweet your own performances and tag them `#autokalimba`!!)

## Features
* Press a bass note key on the left to play it.
* Press a chord key on the right to play a chord on the last bass note you played!
* The **middle slider** controls the pitch range of bass notes.
* Wiggle your thumb up and down on the chord key to add **vibrato**.
* Press **Settings** in the top-left to tweak instrument and strum behavior.
* With **split keys** enabled, press the bottom part on a bass key to play a 5 in the bass.
* There are some hacky QWERTY controls (enable _Horizontal chords_ under settings and hit some keys to find the layout).

## Un-features
* Triads

## Instrument credits
* **Guitar**: [SpeedY on freesound](https://freesound.org/people/SpeedY/sounds/8383/).
* **Kalimba**: [arioke on freesound](https://freesound.org/people/arioke/sounds/58729/).
* **Rhodes**: tim.kahn on freesound ([low](https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/65755/), [high](https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/65726/)).
* **Toy**: From the Mario Paint soundfont.
* **Piano**: [Samulis on freesound](https://freesound.org/people/Samulis/packs/21055/?page=2#sound).
* **Fluffy**: From the Animal Crossing soundfont.
* **FM**: From a certain popular FM synthesizer.
* **Honk**: From [season 3, episode 1 of _Breaking Bad_](https://youtu.be/mtaN00gvie8?t=60).
* **Subtractive**: Made with the freeware VST [Charlatan](https://www.blaukraut.info/).
* **Marimba**: [Samulis on freesound](https://freesound.org/people/Samulis/sounds/373577/).
* **Musicbox**: [UbikPhonik on freesound](https://freesound.org/people/UbikPhonik/sounds/177954/).
* **Bass**: From the FluidR3_GM soundfont.
* **Saw**: From the Animal Crossing: New Horizons soundfont.
* **Wah**: From the Animal Crossing: New Horizons soundfont.
* **Pan**: From the Animal Crossing: New Horizons soundfont.
* **Vibraphone**: From the Wii Music soundfont.
* **Sine**: From the Wii menu soundfont.

## FAQ

### Why is the repository called `harp`?
When I made the repository, I only knew I was making something like a digital [autoharp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoharp). The name "autokalimba" was suggested by [@profanegeometry on Twitter](https://twitter.com/profanegeometry/status/1456963454573572102), and it stuck, but `foldr.moe/harp` is easier to type into a URL bar, so I didn't want to change the repository name.

### What are 7s, 13s, ø, and o?
Those are: 7sus4, 13sus4, m7♭5, and dim7. I had to get a bit creative to fit everything on the buttons.

By the way, the `II/` button plays chords like `D/C` or `E♭/D♭`. It's a nice Lydian scale-y sound.

### Your vibrato code causes slight pitch drift when I don't exactly center my thumb on the chord button!!
Yeah! Isn't it cute??

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