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Lavarn Studio designs and builds mobile apps that musicians and music students use in their daily work. Each one came out of something we kept missing on stage or in the lesson room.
Lavarn Studio — Apps for Musicians
Lavarn Studio — Apps for Musicians
OUR FIRST APP - BEAT TITAN METRONOME
A metronome that does not assume 4/4
A metronome that does not assume 4/4
Turkish usuls, aksak metres, polyrhythm, and a setlist that remembers every song. Five modes on one sample-accurate engine.
For people who play for a living, and for the students learning to. Simple enough to use without reading anything.
STYLE MODE
Turkish usuls, written the way they are counted
Turkish usuls, written the way they are counted
Nim Sofyan 2/4. Türk Aksağı 5/8. Devr-i Hindi 7/8. Devr-i Turan 7/8. Düyek 8/8. Each one plays with its own strong, medium and weak accents.
Balkan, Latin, African, pop and jazz patterns are there too. But the usuls are the reason this app exists.
NO TEMPLATES
You decide where the weight falls
You decide where the weight falls
Beat Titan does not hand you a ready grouping for 7/8 or 9/8. It hands you the beats and lets you set each one: strong, medium or weak.
So 9/8 can be 2+2+2+3, or 3+2+2+2, or whatever the piece actually asks for. The screen here is a song in 10/8 — Curcuna — grouped by hand.
ON STAGE
Your setlist, with every tempo already in it
Your setlist, with every tempo already in it
Each song keeps its own tempo, time signature, subdivision and accents. Tap the next song and start. Count-in gives the band its bars before the song begins.
Five Modes
Five Modes
Simple
Simple
Fixed tempo and time signature, with subdivisions.
Stage
Stage
Setlists in song order, for live work.
Dynamic
Dynamic
Tempo rises or falls on its own.
Polyrhythm
Polyrhythm
Two layers at once 3:2, 5:4 split across your ears.
Style
Style
Ready patterns: usuls, Balkan, Latin, jazz.
UNDER ALL OF IT
An engine that counts samples, not milliseconds
An engine that counts samples, not milliseconds
Beat Titan writes its own audio buffer sample by sample rather than waiting on a timer, and the interval between beats is kept as a fraction instead of being rounded to whole samples. This is the part of the design meant to keep long sessions and awkward divisions — nine, ten, twelve — from slowly pulling apart.
The on-screen flash is delayed by the buffer length so that the light and the click line up on wired output. On Bluetooth the sound carries its own extra delay, which the app cannot see.
Products
Products
Beat Titan Metronome
Beat Titan Metronome
Five modes, Turkish usuls, setlists. Phone and desktop.
Google Play - Microsoft Store
Segno
CODE NAME
Segno
CODE NAME
For the people who carry a folder of paper to every gig. Same rules as the first: one job, no ads, no accounts, no internet.
Not announced yet
Volta
CODE NAME
Volta
CODE NAME
It starts with a question we get in almost every lesson. For now: a plan and a pile of notes.
Not announced yet
Who makes these apps
Who makes these apps
Lavarn Studio comes out of twenty years of teaching and playing music. That is where the problems come from — the ones we ran into on stage, and the ones our students kept describing in lessons.
Every app starts in a lesson room or at a rehearsal, not at a desk.
Found a bug, want an app in your language, or want to build something together?
Found a bug, want an app in your language, or want to build something together?
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