About MusicMatMaker

Two Tools

MusicMatMaker can generate blueprints in two ways: the Composer and the Free Blueprint Tool.
In both tools, you can place sounds and use playback to check pitches and listen to the song while you work.

• Composer
  For people who want to focus on composing and generate blueprints automatically
• Free Blueprint Tool
  For people who want to freely place rails, sensors, and music mats for detailed layout design

Composer

The Composer is a piano-roll style tool where pitch runs vertically and time runs horizontally.
Click cells on the grid to place notes.

Its main strength is that you can focus on composing without worrying too much about the detailed rules of Pokoa Pokemon or music mats.
Your composition is automatically converted into a blueprint, generating a straight-line layout.

It works for beginners trying songwriting for the first time and for advanced users who want to create blueprints efficiently.

The desktop version also supports keyboard shortcuts.
Once you get used to it, check the operation guide and try playback, stop, range selection, copy, and paste.

Free Blueprint Tool

The Free Blueprint Tool lets you freely place rails, sensors, and music mats, similar to building directly in Pokoa Pokemon.

You might wonder why not build in Pokoa from the start, but this tool has a few advantages.

• You can check sounds immediately after placing them
• You can edit efficiently with copy and paste
• You can capture ideas quickly before forgetting them
• This makes it useful when you want to improve production speed or test ideas before building them in Pokoa.
  It requires a little understanding of sensors and music mats, but you can also loop playback by placing the start and end of the rail next to each other.

Presets

In the Composer, you can use song data created by SOTA56 as presets.
Preset songs can be edited, and you can build the performance in Pokoa Pokemon while looking at the generated blueprint.

Presets are recommended if you want to:

• Try what the Composer can do
• Start by playing a familiar song in Pokoa

Layers

Music mats can play sounds when placed in 11 positions: to the left, right, and back of a sensor, above and below those positions, plus above and below the sensor itself.
To handle the three planes MID / HIGH / LOW, MusicMatMaker uses the idea of layers.

Both tools start on MID.
Songs with up to three-note chords often work with MID only, while songs with four or more notes may also use HIGH and LOW.

Direction Rotation

Music mats change pitch depending on the direction they face, so you need to decide the reference direction while designing.
Direction rotation can rotate the blueprint for the direction you want to move, and it can also rotate only the music mats in 90-degree steps.

This is useful when you start from a straight blueprint made in the Composer and then bend the rail into a zigzag layout.

Loading and Saving

Song data created in each tool can be saved on your PC or phone.
Loading saved data restores the state from the previous save.

This is useful when you want to:

• Keep backups of song data
• Work on multiple songs in parallel

Image Export

Blueprints can also be saved as PNG images.
This is useful when you want to share blueprints with friends.

Try MusicMatMaker

• Open Composer
• Open Free Blueprint Tool
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