Kyma

Free and open source

Music, the simplest way.

Kyma is the easiest way to make music for the content you post every day. Hum it, pick a mood or drop in your video. It runs in your browser and costs nothing.

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What it does

Hum a melody and it becomes a part. Pick a mood and Kyma deals the next idea. Drop in your edit and the music lands on your cuts.

Made for
  • Reels
  • Shorts
  • Vlogs
  • Podcasts
  • Streams
  • Tutorials

Meet the band.
Each one found a studio.

Cue, Woofer and Lo make things for the internet. None of them trained as a musician, and all three needed a soundtrack by tonight. This is how each of them gets it done in Kyma.

Cue, a monkey in an orange Cue jacket and mirrored glasses, crouching and pointing a drumstick at the camera
CueCreator and rapperHas the beat in the head long before it is on the laptop.Cue hums and beatboxes
Woofer, a golden retriever in headphones and an orange jacket, reclining with a tablet beside a studio microphone
WooferCreator and founderRecords one video every morning and wants a new track for each.Woofer uses Magic
Lo, a cow in headphones, sunglasses and an orange jacket, singing into a microphone on a stand
LoHobby artist, aspiring singerPaints at night and needs a soft room to practise singing in.Lo builds an atmosphere
Cue crouching in an orange jacket, pointing a drumstick at the camera
“I write a verse a day. The beat shows up in my head on the bus, and by the time I’ve dug through loop packs for something close, the bars have gone cold.”

CueContent creator and rapper

So Cue stopped hunting. Now the hook gets hummed and the drums get beatboxed straight into the mic, and both are on the timeline before the bus reaches the stop.

01Hum and beatbox

Cue hums it. Kyma writes it down.

Sing a line into your mic and Kyma hears the notes. Beatbox a groove and it hears the kicks, snares and hats. Both land on the timeline as parts you can edit.

  • Hum a melody or beatbox a beat.
  • Notes snap to your song’s key, so a wobbly take still sounds right.
  • Play it back as cello, choir, bansuri, sax or a drum kit.
Try the Hum studio
Hum studio · 20 seconds
Woofer reclining on a lounge chair with a tablet, headphones on, a microphone and a small camera set up beside him
“I post one video every morning to get people moving. The talking takes ten minutes. Finding a track that isn’t already on everyone else’s reel takes an hour.”

WooferContent creator and founder

So Woofer treats music like any other part of the business and delegates it. Pick the feeling of today’s message, press once, post.

02Magic, in the Compose studio

Woofer picks a feeling. Kyma deals the idea.

Choose a mood like Dreamy and a style like Lo-fi. Kyma deals cards for drums, chords, bass and melody. Keep the ones you like, or ask for a whole track at the length you need.

  • Moods and styles from Ambient to Raga.
  • A full track in one press: 15 seconds for a story, a minute for a vlog.
  • Melodies are written like tunes: an idea, its answer, and a way home.
Try the Compose studio
Magic · 20 seconds
Lo standing at a microphone in headphones and an orange floral jacket, singing
“I paint in the evenings and I’m teaching myself to sing. I wanted something soft to practise over and to sit under my process videos. Every rain loop I found ran out after thirty seconds.”

LoHobby artist and aspiring singer

So Lo builds the room instead: rain on glass, a low drone, a few chords to sing against. It plays for as long as the painting takes and never repeats the same way.

03Atmosphere studio

Lo sets the scene. It stays in key.

Pick a scene like Rain on glass, then raise the layers you want: drone, shimmer, wind, rain, birds. Tap a chord strip and the whole bed moves with it.

  • Scenes for nature, city and space.
  • A bed for singing practice, a voiceover or a study stream.
  • Export it, or lay it under the song you are making.
Try Atmosphere
Atmosphere · 20 seconds

04Learning agent

Teach it your taste. Share it with anyone.

Drop in a few tracks you love. Kyma measures their tempo, key, swing and energy and keeps them as a taste. Use it as a style in Magic, or share the small file so a friend can write in your style.

  • Reads tempo, key, groove and energy.
  • The taste file holds numbers and credits, never the audio.
  • Anyone can import it into their own project.
Learning agent · 20 seconds

05Video and DJ studios

Two more rooms.
Same easy controls.

The Video studio with a clip loaded, its cuts and speech detected, ready to score

Drop in your edit.

Kyma finds the cuts and the speech, sets a tempo so cuts fall on the beat, and lowers the music while people talk. Your video never leaves your browser.

Try the Video studio
The DJ studio: deck A plays your song, deck B a demo or an audio file

Mix it live.

Two decks, a crossfader and pads for repeats, sweeps and tape stops. Play your song against any audio file and record the take.

Try DJ

Three steps.
No manual.

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  1. Pick a studio.

    Compose, Hum, Video, Atmosphere or DJ. Start from a demo song or a surprise.

  2. Make it yours.

    Hum a line, pick a mood or drop in your clip. Change anything on the timeline. Undo is always there.

  3. Export and post.

    Download the audio or the finished video and post it wherever your audience is.

Free.Open.Yours.

Free

No plans, no paywall and no watermark on what you export.

Open source

Built in the open by an independent studio, and free for anyone to use.

Royalty-free

Every sound is synthesised live in your browser. No sample packs, so what you make is yours to post.

Nothing to install

Kyma runs in a browser tab. Projects save as you work, on your own device.

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Credits

Designed and built by Ishan Upadhyay.

Creative technologist and industrial designer. Kyma is one of the instruments he builds under Experign, a studio of purpose-built creative tools.

ishanexperign-cpu.github.io/IU.E
Studios
Compose, Hum, Video, Atmosphere, DJ
Sound
Synthesised live on the Web Audio API
Type
Plus Jakarta Sans by Tokotype
Status
Beta, free and open source

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