Free app turns your drawings into music

By Creative Bloq Staff
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Tunetrace is an app for iPhone and iPad that turns visuals into soundscapes. What music will your sketches produce?

There are plenty of music making apps out there but what about an app that takes inspiration from your own drawings? No matter what your ability, this new app from Ed Burton can turn any sketch into a new tune.

Using OpenCV (opens in new tab) and OpenFrameworks (opens in new tab), Tunetrace (opens in new tab) transforms photographs of drawings into music. OpenFrameworks first finds the edges in your photographs, then reduce them to polylines and uses them as paths for different tones.

Created for iPhone and iPad, Tunetrace is the latest music-making app to be developed by QApps (opens in new tab), which aims to turn research and expertise into useful and exciting smartphone technology.

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Creative Bloq Staff

The Creative Bloq team is made up of a group of design fans, and has changed and evolved since Creative Bloq began back in 2012. The current website team consists of six full-time members of staff: Editor Kerrie Hughes, Deputy Editor Rosie Hilder, Deals Editor Beren Neale, Senior News Editor Daniel Piper, Digital Arts and Design Editor Ian Dean, and Staff Writer Amelia Bamsey, as well as a roster of freelancers from around the world. The 3D World and ImagineFX magazine teams also pitch in, ensuring that content from 3D World and ImagineFX is represented on Creative Bloq. 

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