Standalone version: Download the zip file and unzip → Double click the html → Write your music

Install on iPad: Open https://sing.weebpaint.com/ → Tap Share → Add to Home Screen

Latest Update: https://sing.weebpaint.com/

Source Code, Bug Reports and Nightly Builds: https://github.com/fangzhangmnm/moonsinger


Moonsinger: A revolutionary DAW (digital audio workstation), not like any competitor on the market. Free, open source, no sign-up. For anime songwriters, video game music makers, and everyone.

DAW = where you write songs or make video game music. A fancier version of a ringtone editor, but for production-ready game assets and albums.

🌕🌕🌕Why MoonSinger is different🌕🌕🌕

🌙 1. Sing first -- but if you don’t want to, we can do it for you

The human voice was the first instrument. It was there on the sixth day of creation.

We are empathy animals. When we hear an instrument, we hear the body behind it and how it feels right now. One short cry from a baby bird is enough to tell us how it's doing.

All good tunes start with a human humming, not with music theory. That's why so many beginners get blank canvas syndrome in front of a music-making app. It asks you to program the final version before you've even hummed a rough sketch.

But not everyone is born to sing freely. Maybe it's a disability. Maybe you're shy, or you don't like standing in the spotlight. Maybe you just don't like your own voice and want to sing through an avatar, like a VTuber.

So a new song in MoonSinger doesn't start with a default piano, or with a silent track and an $899 sample library. It starts with Tsukuyomi-chan, a synthesized singer: like Miku, but with a generous, free-to-use license. Write a few notes and she hums them back. Add lyrics and she sings them.

Even if you're writing an instrumental piece, try your first motif with her, before the little bird grows into a full Beethoven-style orchestra.

Live recording is coming soon. If she makes you feel like singing too, just do it.

🌙 2. Play it like an ocarina -- on the sofa, on the train, or hanging under a paraglider (not recommended for safety reasons)

Good tunes show up in real life, not when you sit down at a desk.

So MoonSinger has a touch keyboard for your iPad or phone. It's modeled on the Donner MEDO and the Ocarina app on iPhone: hold it in both hands, press and babble. That feels closest to a wind instrument, and so closest to the human voice.

It's fast. For simple nursery rhymes and medieval folk songs, we're close to realtime, as you can see in the video. So you can catch an improvisation or a passing idea as it happens, instead of memorizing it and painfully translating it into a "programming language" on a mainframe.

It also comes down to muscle memory. Different ways of playing lead your fingers to different tunes. The tune you find on a piano isn't the tune you find on an ocarina.

On a PC, plug in a MIDI keyboard or use the one you're typing on.

🌙 3. Write music like a real musician -- without being a tech geek

We want to be the Procreate of music software: when you're thinking about art, you shouldn't have to switch to your engineer brain.

We believe staff notation is a more intuitive picture of music, because it has a shape. One glance, and you can tell a march from a lullaby and see how each instrument is being played.

And when you want a note to feel different, you write an expression mark. You don't tweak MIDI numbers or draw curves. Write an f, and the piano plays harder while she sings louder. Swap the instrument and the mark still means the same thing.

Numbered notation (jianpu) and piano roll are coming soon. And if an AI wants to make music, we can give it a math-and-code DSP interface too. Everyone has the right to sing in their mother tongue and write in the notation most native to them.

🌙 4. Lightweight, nimble, just good enough -- not for the concert hall, for your game and your favourite song

Most music apps aren't built for melody-driven music: anime songs, J-pop, game and film scores. They're built for the dance floor and for soundscapes. Chiptune tools come close, but they only make chiptune. Notation software does start from acoustic instruments, but it's built for writing the music down. In the end you still need someone to play it, plus the gear and the room to record it.

MoonSinger is a DAW. It has a mixer, so you can finish a track right here, then drop it straight into your game or send it to a friend.

The music of our childhood is wood and steel. These instruments are old enchantments: a few bells and a clarinet can conjure a whole fantasy world. If you just want that very instrument, pick it. You don't have to hunt for it by turning synth knobs. And the magic isn't only in the sound: every instrument has its own logic, the melodies it likes, its texture, its rhythm, its articulation, even its scale.

We're synthesized too, and so was a lot of the game music we grew up with: one person and a Roland sound module, pretending to be an orchestra.

After the American Civil War, surplus army band instruments flooded the market, and Black musicians in New Orleans turned them into jazz. MoonSinger wants to be that second-hand army drum you can find in any junk shop. You don't have to go looking for it. It's already there in your browser. Under 150 MB, with an ordinary GS sound bank. No need to buy and download hundreds of gigabytes of sample libraries for your first note.

A real orchestra takes time, space, people and endless organizing, plus years on an instrument. This won't fool a conductor. It will ship in your game. You don't need ten years, and you still deserve to write something traditional and beautiful, not only something edgy and rebellious.

🌝 Promotions

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🌜 Credits

Instruments: GeneralUser GS 2.0.3 by S. Christian Collins

Illustration: fangzhangmnm

本ソフトウェアの音声合成には、フリー素材キャラクター「つくよみちゃん」（© Rei Yumesaki）が無料公開している音声データを使用しています。
■つくよみちゃんコーパス（CV.夢前黎）
https://tyc.rei-yumesaki.net/material/corpus/

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