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Notes are selected automatically by default so that you can start quickly, but if you need more control you can manually select one for each track from a full-size piano keyboard. sonogrid comes with many built-in instruments but you can also send notes live to other apps if you want to have custom sounds.  Use sonogrid 's powerful features for beat making, ear training, keeping time, performing, and creative exploration.  No musical experience is necessary to enjoy sonogrid , and that's what makes it fun, but certain features might feed your creativity if you already make music.  No mystery-meat navigation. sonogrid is designed as a creative tool, with a screen that's mostly a blank canvas for your ideas.  Specifying simple and complex rhythms is completely effortless without western classical music notation - you have never felt anything like this.  The interface is similar to multi-track recording software so you can mute, solo, move, stretch, and manage tracks intuitively.  You can use it like a drum machine, an advanced metronome, an ear trainer, compositional sketchpad, or just to have fun with sound and music.  For teachers, a clear way to represent time and help students understand the space between beats.  The familiar step sequencer has been transformed to be more flexible, but the idea of turning notes 'on' and 'off' is the same.  The main concept is to put looping rhythms on the screen in a way that they all relate to each other.  You can send MIDI out (maybe to a synthesizer app like Audulus, or a DAW on your computer like Ableton Live).  For composers, a way of exploring complex rhythmic ideas and layering without heavy symbolic language.  For musicians, there are new time signatures, polyrhythms, scales, and the possibility to combine any of them in new ways.  The powerful transformations on each track are easy to access and understand.  Transform rhythms visually by shifting, stretching, and snapping.  You can also export your project to a standard MIDI file which can be played back on any device.