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Two wheels from one swim

A free chord-wheel sketchpad: progressions, melodies, drums and MIDI export — all in your browser.

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László Kerezsi and Lili the samoyed in Lake Balaton
László & Lili at the Balatonföldvár dog beach — where the idea surfaced.

Musiccer and its sibling Paletter were born on the same evening swim. At the dog beach of Balatonföldvár, on Lake Balaton, I was swimming with Lili — my samoyed — when the idea surfaced: the same wheel that organizes colour could organize music. Colour harmonies live on a wheel; chords live on a circle. One idea, two wheels, two tools.

Two weeks later both were online. Honest accounting: nine of those fourteen days I spent travelling through the beautiful Czech Republic, so the actual building took about five days — the pace a tool can reach when it stays small, focused and free of everything it doesn't need.

Musiccer is free and stays free. No account, no upload — the theory engine, the synth and the MIDI export all run in your browser. A share link carries your whole song inside the URL; nothing is stored anywhere else.

It speaks English and Hungarian (the EN/HU switch in the header), and it talks to Beatter, our Euclidean rhythm toy: a groove built there opens here as the drum pattern under a suggested progression, and any pattern here opens there as rings.

Vision Graphics

Musiccer is made by Vision Graphics, a Hungarian 3D visualization and software studio.

For companies

Musiccer is also a work sample. Need a tool tailored to your workflow — or a completely different app, built this small and this fast, exactly to fit? That is what we do. Get in touch →

Keep it free

If Musiccer earned a place in your toolbox, a coffee's worth keeps it running and ad-free. ♥ Support on Ko-fi →

Further reading

The theory behind what Musiccer does:

Circle of fifths — the wheel the chord wheel is built on · Chord progression · Voice leading, which the Smooth voices button solves with a Viterbi search · Roman numeral analysis

Friberg & Sundström (2002) — Swing ratios and ensemble timing, the study behind the auto-swing button · Musical scales, the territory of the world atlas · General MIDI, the instrument map the soundfont synth speaks