How to play the Fenophone
The player's guide: the Field, the dials, conducting a layer, tempo and key, and capturing and sharing what you make. No theory needed.
Documentation
Three ways in: play the instrument in your browser, plug it into your DAW, or embed it as an adaptive-music engine in your game. Start wherever you are.
Play it
The Fenophone Studio
The instrument's second room: layer your captured takes, balance and place them with per-layer EQ, pan, and space, re-voice a genre with your own sound, and keep named sketches — free in the browser.
Plug it in
The same instrument as a VST3/AUv3 plugin: it follows your project's tempo, every control automates from the host, and its state saves with your project. One-time purchase — the browser stays free.
Fenophone in your DAW
What the plugin is and what it costs: project tempo sync, host automation, genre switches on the bar, state saved with your project — one-time purchase.
From Fenophone to your DAW
The round-trip guide: export per-voice MIDI and stems from the browser and drop them into Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Reaper, or Bitwig.
Build with it (game developers)
The engine embeds in games as an adaptive-music runtime: gameplay drives the score, and the score can drive the game back. Free for game jams and prototypes with a credit; a one-time, per-title license to ship.
Fenophone in your game
The game music engine in plain terms: what it does, how it ships, and what a title license costs.
Game developer start-up guide
Zero to a live adaptive soundtrack: pick your engine, map game state to the controls, handle save games, and license it.
Adaptive runtime reference
The concise API reference — the game-state → control mapping, the bar-quantized musical transition, and reading the score back.
Engine bindings (Unity, Godot, Unreal, C++)
Thin, idiomatic bindings for each engine over one C ABI — a drop-in component in Unity, Godot, and Unreal, or a header-only wrapper for any C++ engine.
Licensing
The instrument is free to play and export needs only a one-time unlock. The plugin is a one-time purchase. Embedding the engine in a game is a separate, per-title license — free for jams, own-it-forever to ship, with no royalties and no DRM. See the runtime license terms, or head back to guides & genres.