Sonic Moves Creator

Arrange sounds, software instruments and effects, and connect them to real-time body tracking input. Everything happens in an efficient graphical interface with no coding required. Share your creations directly from the app with players.

Sonic Moves Creator is available for iPad and Mac.

Sound

Sonic Moves includes a wide range of sounds and effects for you to get creative with:

Interactive Sounds

Flat audio files for playback or grain sampling Generators for waveforms, noise and more Drum machine with a large variety of samples Customizable synths Sampler with built-in sample sets and support for your own samples

Interactive Effects

Reverbs Delay Flanger Auto-Wah Chorus Tremolo Bitcrusher Decimator Ring Modulator Guitar Distortion String Resonator Time-pitch Varispeed Several Filters

Interaction

The core principle of Sonic Moves is to connect sound parameters to body tracking. This means that you can change almost all of them in real-time. Musical parameters of software instruments like note onsets, velocity, octave and transposition can also be made interactive.

Live Testing

You can test your composition interactively through various methods:

Using internal and external cameras
Loading prerecorded videos
Using built-in body-tracking example data
Sending quick exports to a device via Airdrop and play them in Sonic Moves Player

Publishing

Sonic Moves compositions are meant to be played in the Sonic Moves Player app. Export your piece as a single file which you own and can distribute. This gives you complete control over your work. You can upload it to a website or file hoster, share it for free, or sell it through platforms like Gumroad. We are not involved in the distribution process of your works.

More Features

Binaural Sound: Select and arrange up to four sound sources around the player for binaural spatial audio with optional reverb.
Interactive 3D Audio: Headphones like Airpods make it even more immersive through head tracking.
MIDI Out: Send MIDI CC Events and Notes to other apps, internally or over Bluetooth
OSC: Send tracking data and mapped values
Use visualizations to illustrate movements and inspire interactions

Roadmap

We are continuously developing Sonic Moves Creator to add more features and capabilities. Here is a sneak peak of what you can expect in the future:

Timeline
Ableton Link integration
Gestures and higher order interactions
More audio effects

Available for iPad and Mac

The iPad version is optimized for touch input, and the macOS version has Mac-like features like keyboard shortcuts and easy file system access. Projects made on either platform are completely compatible with the other.

Prices

Sonic Moves Creator can be downloaded fro free. Usage is subject to three different licenses.

Free License Get all the features, limited to: Only two sounds in each composition, and not data out functionality (MIDI & OSC).

Unlimited License: All features for a one time purchase at 60$ or 40$ if you already own a Connect License (see below).

Connect License: If you need only data out out functionality (MIDI & OSC), for 20$. There is also an uprade path from Connect to Unlimited for 40$.

All licenses are permanent, there are no subscriptions.

Why Sonic Moves is a Platform

Case Study: The Making of the Sonic Moves Trailer

For our trailer, Jakob composed the piece “White Mountain” on his iPad in Sonic Moves Creator. He used synths, samplers, pre-recorded loops, drum machines and a number of effects. For the interactive part, he focused on the hands.

In Berlin, we met with performer Tomoko Nakasato, and videographer Clemens Jurk. We put an iPad on a stand and used Sonic Moves Creator for live body tracking and sound output. For the live sound we had a bluetooth speaker connected. At the same time, we captured audio and video from the iPad to use it in the trailer later.

Just listening to the interactive sound, Tomoko completely improvised her movements which you can see in the video.

Ultimately, we were happy and pleased with how well the process went and how smooth the workflow was.