Build, Listen, Compose
Easy to start, deep to master: draw a line, hear it play and grow it into a song.
LAY BELTS, BUILD MACHINES
- Find veins of the 12 pitches and timbre beds of Wood, Strings, Brass, Glass, Bell and Bass on the map; far-off regions hold Choir, Organ and Synth beds.
- Put an Extractor on a vein and drag belts with your finger; bridges are built automatically where lines cross. Pan with one finger, zoom with two.
FROM NOTE TO WORK
- Raw Tone → Note → Timbre Note → Chord → Motif → Phrase → Section → Work: every tier makes your line a little deeper.
- Everything that reaches the hall is actually played; as orders progress new voices join your song: a glass arpeggio, hi-hats, a string answer phrase, a choir and tower bells.
SCORE ORDERS
- The hall commissions you: "30 Do per minute", "a C major chord with a Wood timbre", later the exact motif shown on a staff, then phrases, sections and whole works.
- After 40 commissions come endless seasons, side orders and a fresh Order of the Day every day; keep your streak going for a bigger reward.
LIVE CONCERT
- Some orders need an item to reach the hall exactly on the beat: belt length is latency, and the phase of the Metronome Gate sets the timing.
- For every item that misses you get a clear hint such as "5 ticks late, raise the phase by 5".
Why Tone Foundry?
A factory-building game where the thing you produce is music: every line you build is heard.
20+ MACHINES
- Tuner, Octaver, Chord Press, Timbre Cauldron, Filter, Splitter, Merger, Counter, Buffer, Delay, Sequencer, Phrase Binder, Opus Binder and more unlock as you complete orders.
- Undo and redo, select an area to copy, move or delete it, and save a line as a plan you can share with a code.
RESEARCH
- Spend Applause and Pages to raise the tempo, extractor and machine speed, buffer size, bridge range, map limit and hall applause.
- The metronome starts at 60 BPM; research raises it up to 180 BPM.
NOTEBOOK AND CHORD CATALOG
- The red button on the strip writes your factory's last 4 bars into the Notebook.
- Every chord you first play in the hall is added to the Chord Catalog (10 types × 12 roots = 120 chords).
THE COMPOSER
- Place pieces on a grid; with Backing on, bass, choir and drums join on their own. Make a one-tap song, write your own motif and name your piece.
- Share it as a MIDI file or an audio file.
Composer Mode
No orders, every machine and research unlocked: build freely and just make music. An internet connection is required to play.
Free to play
Tone Foundry: Music Factory is free; it contains optional ads (an optional short ad can give you +1 Page every 30 minutes) and an optional in-app purchase to remove ads.
Screenshots
A factory that plays, a map that keeps growing, drawing a line with an automatic bridge, a Chord Press, a score order, the Sequencer, a live concert and the Composer.
Start your factory!
Tone Foundry: Music Factory is free. Download it now, lay your first belt and hear it play.