Hexpress musical instrument Apk
Latest version 0.39.0
28 Nov 2023
Apk Infos
| Version | 0.39.0 |
| Rating | 4.2/5, based on 954 votes |
| Size | 16 MB |
| Requires Android | Android 4.0+ (Ice Cream Sandwich) |
| Author's Notes | Musical instruments on your phone |
About Hexpress musical instrument APK
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Description
Hexpress is a collection of musical instruments for your phone. You can use it for learning, playing and composing music whenever you have the time - on train, while waiting in line and during boring meetings. Using headphones (non-bluetooth) is strongly recommended for louder and better sound quality, and to not disturb others around you. The application has simple, colorful and clean interface designed to be accessible to young children.While each instrument behaves differently in some way, in general notes are played by touching shapes on the screen, and sound is shaped by tilting the phone left-right and up-down. Different instruments have different effect controls - fade in, reverb, tremolo...
Most of Hexpress instruments have unusual honeycomb note arrangement that's sometimes called "harmonic table note layout". It is identical Tonnetz layout, only rotated. It has many interesting properties compared to standard piano layout:
• effective utilization of device screen (3+ octaves range)
• note relations (intervals) are uniform across whole range; to transpose song to different key just play same patterns on different part of instrument
• most chord shapes are grouped tightly and they can be executed with single finger swipe
• in typical scale and melody runs, notes are alternated between fingers of two hands, so they can be played with speed and precision
• large intervals are as accessible as smaller intervals
Besides honeycomb layout there are also instruments with conventional fretboard, and a drum set for finger-drumming.
The app features a looper used to record repeating section. The looper is enabled from main screen and can be used in almost all instruments. Saving or exporting loops is not supported in app.
Instruments are not meant to be reconfigured within the app. One reason for this is that it gives you a chance to actually learn the instrument (you couldn't learn a guitar if the tuning was different each time). The other reason is that constraints and limitations actually encourage creativity and make it more accessible to younger users. I'd like to improve existing instruments' sounds and visuals based on your feedback, but there will most likely never be any settings/options to fiddle with.
The app is work in progress - interface, sounds and features are all subject to change. The app doesn't collect ANY information about user and cannot access internet. Microphone permission is optional and is used in single instrument for recording it's samples.
Hexpress is without ads, free and open-source. Your feedback is much appreciated.
Latest updates
What's new in version 0.39.0
A new piano instrumentAll instruments adapted to various displays aspect ratios
Sound sample fixed to reduce cracking
Small visual updates adaptations
How to install Hexpress musical instrument APK on Android phone or tablet?
Download Hexpress musical instrument APK file from ApkClean, then follow these steps:
Update Phone Settings
- Go to your phone Settings page
- Tap Security or Applications (varies with device)
- Check the Unknown Sources box
- Confirm with OK
Go to Downloads
- Open Downloads on your device by going to My Files or Files
- Tap the APK file you downloaded (com.castlewrath.hexpress-v0.39.0-ApkClean.apk)
- Tap Install when prompted, the APK file you downloaded will be installed on your device.
Older Versions
| 0.39.0 (39) | 16 MB |
| 0.37.0 (37) | 6.8 MB |
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User's Reivew
3 ★I love the app the instrument sound great I wouldn't change a lot about it but I would think it would be good if you could add recording or export with mp3 mp4 and other sayings. So we could be able to make music out of the instruments we're using.
4 ★WOW... this is my first exposure to this hexagonal way of making music and i'm blown away. 4 stars because if there is a way to change settings and turn off rotation controlling stuff, I can't find it
4 ★Very interesting. Well done. Few errors and glitches. patches/analog/analog.lua:75: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'volume' (a nil value) Traceback patches/analog/analog.lua:75: in function 'drawCell' hexpad.lua:97: in function 'draw' patches/analog/analog.lua:118: in function 'draw' main.lua:86: in function 'actualLoveDraw' toolset.lua:18: in function 'draw' [C]: in function 'xpcall'
4 ★Cons: -No recording option. -Instrumets' timbers sound bad. Pros: +Free and no ads. +The hexagonal distribution allows you to think of new interesting note choices, wich is great for composing and I think is the main point of the app.
4 ★A bit glitchy. Otherwise it's a really fun and interesting app.
5 ★I normally don't give reviews, but this one really caught my eye. This has a nice user-face and is simple to understand. Though, I do wish there would be more options, but other than that, it's pretty good. Keep up the work!
5 ★Minimal design, easy to use, no ads, and no in-app-purchases. It does one thing, and it does it well. In a perfect world, every app would be like this one. Keep it up, devs.
2 ★Animations and sounds are nice but the fixed layout of the pitches makes it highly difficult/awkward to play anything melodic, and there is no piano roll or actual music track creation of any kind. This app currently serves best as entertainment for 1-year-olds.
1 ★Sounds Bad The app went for a minimalist, easy to use interface, but as such, it has no way to change what each pad sounds like, giving it a stale, tone-deaf feel to it. This could have been such a great synth-pad app if you could change around the layout of each note, but instead you're left with this poor excuse for a musical instrument simulator.
4 ★Neat tools, had a lot of fun with it for maybe an hour, but I don't see how it would be a functional plugin for any music production with no ability to record anything.
4 ★Great interface for phone screen - however some instruments like the organ are missing most of their higher range and the low notes are too low to hear easily on phone speakers. an octave switcher would be great.
5 ★it was amazing first there are amazing sounds plus what really blew my mind that there are different sounds based on the orientation of the device!! like how crazy!!
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