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TOPLAPapp app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 7424 ratings )
Music Games Music Puzzle
Developer: Op 133 Studios LLC
Free
Current version: 1.2, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 27 Jul 2009
App size: 476 Kb

TOPLAPapp is a sonic puzzle based around a virtual machine for sound synthesis. This machine accepts a few valid instructions represented by the letters T, O, P, L, A, and p, and you control it by placing each command letter within a grid, along with setting some associated parameter sliders. The machine rushes through the instruction set to create output sounds, which are usually of a somewhat noisy character, hopefully interestingly so. The historical antecedents include instruction synthesis as pioneered at the Institute of Sonology in the 1970s, and the live coding movement, of modifying a running program as it acts. This app is intended for those interested in more experimental sonic art: dont download unless you are open to stranger computer music sounds ((http://www.toplap.org).