Ecliptic · Prototype 0.5
Scales on the sun's road
Chart scales and modes across a keyboard. Pick the controller under your hands, shift octaves to match it, and the scale is drawn across the keys with the root on the sun. The same figure repeats every octave, like the sun crossing the same twelve signs.
Playing in · scale picker
What key is the song in?
Pick the key and Ecliptic lists the scales that fit it, closest to home first. Each one carries its character (somber, eastern, mellow…); hover any scale name here or in the Scale menu for a description. Click a scale to chart it.
Charted scale
Scale
The wheel
Twelve signs, twelve keys
The sun sits on the root. The lit signs are the scale; selected notes keep their colors; a chord draws as a figure across the wheel. In fifths order the scale gathers into one arc, and the neighbouring keys sit beside it.
Click any sign to select that note on the chart. MIDI-held notes ring the sign in white.
Harmony · explore around this scale
Modes, neighbours and chords
Everything here starts from the scale that is charted above: its sister modes, the scales one note away, and the chord on every degree. Clicking any of them changes the chart.
Sightings · scale finder
Which scale has these notes?
Tap the notes you are playing, send the notes you have selected, or collect them from MIDI in. Every scale that holds all of them is listed, closest fit first; click one to chart it with your notes lit.
Riff Map · riff generator
Write a riff from this chart
A riff is written from the scale, the key focus as the register, and your selected notes as anchors it starts and ends on. No rhythm: the map is the path, you bring the time. Click a step in the strip to lock it and regenerate the rest.
Observer's notes
What this prototype proves
Every key is stored as a real pitch. Choose the controller under your hands and shift octaves to match it, and Ecliptic charts the scale across exactly the keys you can reach. The PDF is drawn from the same list of keys as the screen.