If there’s a single belief that’s guided the development of FlowFrame, it’s this:
There is no one right way to make music.
Not in how you compose it.
Not in how you teach it.
Not in how you practice it.
Music is shaped by bodies, communities, values, traditions, physics and always by personal taste. The goal of FlowFrame isn’t to enforce a method. It’s to provide a structure that helps you pursue your own.
That means building a tool that adapts to what you need, whether you’re grounding yourself in the overtone series, navigating tempo curves, or improvising with harmonies that fall outside Western tuning.
Here are some of the ways FlowFrame supports that idea.
Flexible Time and Pulse
- Metric Modulations: A quarter note from a quarter note triplet can become the eighth note of the next measure, no math required.
- Tuplets and Nested Tuplets: Build rhythmic structures as intricate (or simple) as the music demands.
- Subdivisions up to 12: Layer up to five different subdivisions on a single beat to mirror complex rhythmic feels.
- Beat Groupings: Customize how measures are grouped and accented—useful for everything from Bulgarian dance music to expressive rubato.
Pitch, Drone, and Harmony—Your Way
- Drones: Pitch-stable practice with variable A tuning (adjustable in cents).
- Preset Harmonies: Select from built-in chord types or stack your own.
- “Any Note” Drones: Choose from four octaves to create exactly the harmonic environment you want.
- Just Intonation (and other temperaments) + Reference Pitch: Tune every note relative to any pitch center you define.
- Overtone Series-Tuned Drones: Build practice tools aligned to the physics of sound.
- Quarter-Tone Support: Explore microtonality and expressive intonation without needing external synths or plugins.
Time-Event Music? There’s a Frame for That Too.
Some music isn’t measured in beats at all—it’s structured by seconds, not measures. For that, there’s FreeFlow, FlowFrame’s time-event framework.
Use it to:
- Rehearse or perform works coordinated by stopwatch instead of barlines
- Trigger cues with clock precision
- Synchronize players in pieces where pulse is irrelevant or intentionally absent
So What Is FlowFrame, Really?
It’s not just a metronome.
It’s not just a tuner.
It’s not just a tracker.
It’s a practice framework, designed to grow with you, not to tell you how to play.
Whether you’re a classical flutist fine-tuning your vibrato to a just-tuned drone, an experimental violinist redefining pulse, or a teacher building patterns for your students, the point is this:
You don’t need to change your music to fit the tool.
The tool should meet you where you are and open new possibilities from there.