January

January is a generative music tool. You walk around and lick snowflakes with your tongue, and the tool uses a set of rules to make choices about what the next note (or notes) will be. It also gives the player freedom to play various types of chords, and choose when and how notes will be played. There are a bunch of advanced features, which you can explore below. It was made with Flixel and Flash/AS3.

Advanced Controls
H - Toggle HUD, which shows note information.
M - Save your performance to a MIDI file!
+- - Plus and minus will increase or decrease the amount of snowfall.
P - Pedal Point Mode. Adds a note underneath every regular note (not chords).
= - Pentatonics Mode! Turn whatever the current scale is into a Pentatonic scale.
[ ] - Use Brackets to Toggle Through Game Modes.
"Write" - default mode
"Repeat" - repeat up to the last 8 notes from Write mode.
"Detour" - Generate notes freely without effecting your Repeat sequence.
\ - in Write mode, resets the sequence you're creating for Repeat mode. In Repeat mode, starts the sequence back at the beginning.
K - Change the Musical Key!
< > - Toggle through modes (Ionian, Dorian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian)
I - Improv Move - January will periodically change things for you!
0 - Auto Pilot, if you want to see/hear the tool play itself!
CTRL - Hold this to move really fast! (aka cheat)