Musical Translation
Visual structures become tonal or harmonic systems. Map image data to musical scales, generate harmonic textures, and create ambient compositions from visual patterns.
Distorted grid
Listen for changes in pitch and emphasis as the grid narrows and widens.
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Each translation interprets a 64 × 64 image sample over 8 seconds. Download your sound before leaving.
How this mapping works
Image columns become notes. Brightness and color balance select scale degrees and velocity. Scale Mode selects pentatonic (below 33⅓), minor (33⅓ to below 66⅔), or major (66⅔–100). Rhythm Density changes event count; Texture Weight changes note length. MIDI uses the same note events as playback.
Mapping inspector
Inspect the sampled image at the playback position. Drag below to seek and inspect another moment.
Column 1 / 64 · time 0.000 s · brightness 55.8%
Event 1 / 25: MIDI 57, 220.0 Hz, velocity 61, length 0.148 s.
Brightness and color balance select the pitch; brightness controls velocity. Pattern symmetry blends mirrored column brightness for velocity. Image-to-sound translation does not preserve all visual information.
Sound character (advanced)
Adds brighter, more complex tones.
Duration stretches the image scan and note spacing. Use Audio finishing for channel placement, output gain and loop edge fades.
Higher values raise the pitch range.
Higher values make the sound louder.
Higher values strengthen the added upper tone.
Higher values add more notes in the same duration.
Higher values lengthen each note.
Audio finishing
Edge fading brings both ends to silence without changing duration. It softens the join but may create a rhythmic dip. MIDI and note diagrams describe the original sequence before audio finishing.
Mono · 8.0 s
M peak -25.6 dBFS · RMS -39.5 dBFS
Boundary step 0.00e+0
Waveform and spectrogram show the mono fold-down. Meters measure the rendered channels.
Export
WAV: native 48 kHz / 24-bit, matching playback. PNG shows the mono fold-down waveform. Left/right WAVs split the stereo channels. JSON records the mapping and source fingerprint.