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Tunody, ComposerFlex and PianoFlex
Three ways to create and play piano songs. Each is best at something different.
Tunody is the quick way in: free to create songs, for now, nothing to install, in your browser.
ComposerFlex is the one to build songs with: your own recipes, tempo, key and scale, songs up to 3 hours long, no limit on how many.
PianoFlex is the one to shape and play the piano: sliders for the sound, your own presets, live playing, and any MIDI file.
| What | Tunody | ComposerFlex | PianoFlex |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting started | |||
| Where it runs | In your web browser. Nothing to install. | On your Windows PC. | On your Windows PC, or as a VST3 plugin in a DAW. |
| Account and internet | Sign in with your email or Google. Needs an internet connection. | Works offline. No account. | Works offline. No account. |
| Cost to try | Free to create songs, for now. | Try the free demo; a license key unlocks the full program. | Try the free demo; a license key unlocks the full program. |
| Creating songs | |||
| What you choose | A song type, a piano, a length, a title, Key, Tempo and Scale (each Auto or set), Dynamics and Song variation, or Random style. | A song type, or your own recipe: up to 96 ingredients from more than 200, each with its own Mix and Strength. Tempo, key, 30 scales and the start phrase. Dynamics and Song variation. Random at any level, then edit it. | Plays songs rather than creating them. ComposerFlex creates them. |
| Length and how many | Set by Tunody. The limits are shown on the Create page. | 30 seconds to 3 hours. No limit on how many songs. | No length limit and no credits. |
| The sound | |||
| Pianos | Auto, which picks a piano to suit the song type, or a list of pianos, each a PianoFlex sound. | Has no sound of its own. It plays through PianoFlex, PianoFlex Player or a MIDI port. | Piano, Style and Space lists, eleven panels of sliders, your own presets, and up to five pianos layered. |
| Playing | |||
| Playing live | Not offered | Plays as it creates, through PianoFlex, PianoFlex Player or a MIDI port to any synthesizer or DAW. | Play from a MIDI keyboard, with a Velocity Curve for each keyboard. Record what you play. Hear ComposerFlex live. Send MIDI out. |
| Your files | |||
| What you get | A MIDI file and an MP3 audio file. | Standard MIDI files in the Archive (full version), named songs in the Song Library, and your own presets. | Opens any MIDI file. Renders audio to a 24-bit FLAC at the level you choose. |
| How long they are kept | The audio for 7 days, and you can create it again for 1 credit. The MIDI until you delete it, or after 12 months without signing in. | On your own computer, with no expiry. | On your own computer, with no expiry. |
| Using your songs | Songs created on a free account are for personal use only. | Music you create with it is yours to use any way you want, including commercially, under its license. | What you create and record with it is yours to use any way you want, including commercially, under its license. |
| Song videos | Not offered | Yes, in the full version. Falling-notes videos, tall for phones or wide for YouTube. | Yes. Falling-notes videos with your own picture and note colours. |
| Under the hood | |||
| The same engines | Tunody uses the same music and piano engines as ComposerFlex and PianoFlex. Songs are created from ComposerFlex’s rules and played on PianoFlex’s piano engine, and each piano in Tunody’s list is a PianoFlex sound. | ||
ComposerFlex and PianoFlex are Flex Music Labs programs for Windows. Details, listening samples and downloads are on flexmusiclabs.com.