1 · Genre
Ten genres, each with its own tempo, key and voice. Drum & Bass opens at 174 BPM with a rolling sub under a Reese; Hip Hop at 90 with a root and one move.
BRACE · How it playsBass, braced.
Everything on the iPhone and iPad app, screen by screen. Every picture here is the real app.
The flow
Three taps to a part.
2 · Part
Four parts per genre, each a different job for the bass, each shown with a preview of its line. Pick one and it starts playing.
3 · Play
THE LINE shows every note, with each bar's chord when you've picked a progression. DILATE bends it live. SPARK throws a new idea. − and + move it down or up.
Undo
Up to 256 steps back — genre, part, voice, a single note. Undo and redo sit on the PLAY screen.
Voice
34 voices, five families.
All synthesised by 30P. SHAPE IT opens the envelope (attack, decay, sustain, release) and a three-band EQ with level.
Played
- Upright
- Fingered
- Fretless
- Slap
- Driven Pick
- Fuzz
- Brass
Sub & 808
- Dub Sub
- 808
- Pure Sub
- Surdo
- Log Drum
- Dusty
- Wobble
Synth
- House Pluck
- Saw Sequence
- Square
- Chip
- Rubber
- Donk
- Hollow PWM
Heavy
- Reese
- Liquid Reese
- Neuro
- Growl
- Metal
- Acid
- Too Cold
Character
- Velvet
- Fat Mini
- Organ
- FM Bell
- Synthwave
- Vox
Key, chords, tempo
Always in key.
Twelve keys and eleven scales: major, natural minor, Dorian, Phrygian, Mixolydian, Lydian, harmonic minor, both pentatonics, blues and chromatic.
Chords give one chord per bar, from dark minor progressions to bright major ones — or AUTO, where BRACE moves the bars itself.
With STRICT off, BRACE may lean into a strong beat from a semitone outside the scale, the way a player does. With STRICT on, it never leaves.
Tempo: tap it, nudge it by 1 or 10, or pick 90, 120, 140 or 174.
Create & edit · with the unlock
Down to the note.
Getting it out
Every way out.
- Copy MIDI (unlock) — the notes as a MIDI file, on the clipboard.
- Copy Audio — the bass as a WAV, ready to paste.
- Share — GarageBand, AUM, AirDrop, Messages.
- Save — the WAV to Files, in a BRACE folder, plus the MIDI file with the unlock.
- MIDI in (unlock) — plug in a USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard; hold a key and the line follows it, in key.
- MIDI out (unlock) — play your own synths from BRACE's line on channel 1, drums on channel 10.
The small things
Made for a phone.
Speaker mode
A phone speaker can't play a low sub. Speaker mode rebuilds the low notes so you can still hear the line without headphones.
Click
A metronome under the bass, when you want to play along or record against it.
Landscape
Built sideways on purpose: THE LINE gets the whole width, controls are full-size buttons, and settings open full-screen.
Specifications
At a glance.
- Devices
- iPhone and iPad — one app, landscape
- Price
- Free to download. One-time unlock, shown in your currency by the App Store. No subscription, no account.
- Genres
- 10, with 4 parts each
- Voices
- 34, all synthesised by 30P
- Harmony
- 12 keys, 11 scales, chord progressions, STRICT key
- Export
- WAV (free) and MIDI (unlock), 1–16 bars; copy, share, save to Files
- MIDI
- All MIDI comes with the unlock: MIDI in (USB and Bluetooth), MIDI clock in, MIDI out, MIDI files. Full details in the Deep Dive.
- Audio input
- None. BRACE never uses the microphone.
- Processing
- All on your device. No cloud, no tracking of your music.
- Mac
- AU / VST3 plug-in and standalone follow the iPhone and iPad release
Coming to the App Store
Be first to play it.
One email, the day BRACE is out. Nothing else.
Contact
30p@alonetees.com