Cymasphere is a powerful harmony engine that intelligently generates chord voicings and melodic sequences using scales as its source.
Let’s take a look at Cymasphere’s main elements:
The Cymatic is the fundamental building block of Cymasphere. Each cymatic is a discrete button that when pressed will output a chord voicing, determined by the Dashboard settings that it is configured to use. For a cymatic to exist, it must be assigned a scale.
A bank is simply a ‘row’ of cymatics. Each bank has 12 slots, each which can be occupied by a cymatic if a scale is assigned. Often, the scales assigned to cymatics within a bank share a common scale family or harmonic function, although this is not a requirement.
A palette is a ‘page’ consisting of a series of banks. Cymasphere will support up to 16 banks per palette.
A cymatic’s horizontal position within a bank determines its relative distance from the root of the key and is referred to as the cymatic’s Chromatic Scale Degree. The actual pitch associated with a chromatic scale degree is relative to the root of the palette’s key, and serves as the root for any chord voicing generated by that cymatic.
The Transposition Bar is used to transpose (change keys).
The Sidebar is the vertical scrollable bar on the far right side of the screen including high level settings and preferences.
The Dashboard is a scrollable bar of various settings that determine how chord voicings are generated.
The Keyboard is an important visual reference that displays your voicings and rhythmic sequences.
