App Profile: Homey Pad

Homey Pad is a musical instrument that allows beginner and expert music makers to embody the underlying beauty of music so that they focus on creatively expressing themselves. Played standalone, Homey Pad sounds like a playful synthesizer. Plugged into GarageBand, Logic Pro or any other DAW it can sound like any software instrument. Homey Pad is designed the way music really works with a mirror symmetrical layout, icons representing consonance and dissonance and colors representing the major and minor modes. Each type of chord is played with the same hand position for all home and scale pitches. Because Homey Pad is aware of the home pitch, it is easy for music makers to see the character of every pitch as they play. Changing among relative modes with Homey Pad is like turning on an X-Ray machine that allows music makers to see how the character of pitches changes as the home pitch changes.

Overlays for piano, violin, cello, bass, banjo, and guitar make it easy to learn how different instruments represent musical ideas.