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One melody.
Two ways to hear it.

Orin converts, transcribes, and generates music from one music tradition to another. We empower cross-cultural collaboration, professional music production, and music appreciation.

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Converting Microtones to Western Staff Notation

CDEGASaRiGaPaDhaPa
This is the performance. The voice moves between the keys. Switch to "On piano keys" to see what a keyboard can keep.

An illustration made for this page, not a real recording or a particular raga.

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  1. 01 · ASKChatAsk about a tradition, or describe a piece of music and have it generated for you.Open the Chat
  2. 02 · WRITENotation StudioGive it a recording or typed notes. Choose how to read it and how to write it, and see what the new notation could not carry.Open the Notation Studio
  3. 03 · MAKEWorkspaceArrange clips, edit notes in a piano roll, add drums and export. Anything from the other two can be sent here.Open the Workspace
THE LOSS REPORT

Every conversion says what it left out

A staff has twelve pitches in an octave and no sign for a slow, wide oscillation. Other styles of music use different notation. When Orin transcribes a melody, it makes sure to preserve the original intent of the melody, creating arrangements that facilitate multi-cultural collaboration.

Transcription is approximate by design and follows one melody line. Orin shows how sure it is, and you can always set the tonic, key, and tempo yourself.

Example Carnatic, written as Western staff

Fidelity 0.87 out of 1

  • Major lossThe pitch movement on this note, about 142 cents wide and 5 times a second, has no symbol on a staff and is shown as a plain note.
  • Minor lossThe slide into this note is marked as a line, which says it happens but not how wide, fast or shaped it is.
  • For informationThe staff uses a different tuning reference, so 5 notes shift by up to 12 cents. The notes are the same; the tuning system is not.
SIX TRADITIONS · ANY ONE TO ANY OTHER

What Orin can read and write

Carnatic (Sangeetham). South Indian classical: movable Sa, swaras, ragas, talas and gamakas, written as sargam text. Unreviewed draft

The tables behind these (ragas, talas, maqamat, dastgah-ha) are drafts written from references. They are marked unreviewed until a practitioner of each tradition has checked them.