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The Fenophone

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The Fenophone Studio

The instrument's second room: the player conducts, the Studio layers and mixes. Free in the same browser on a desktop — one press in the player carries your session across.

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The Field — Fenophone's signature visual
Plate IIThe Field — the player's side of the bench

The instrument's second room

The player is where music happens: you conduct, the instrument composes, and the moments you love become captured tiles. The Studio is the room around that instrument — the bench where those tiles become a piece. You layer them, balance them, place each one in its own space, and keep the results under names you choose. Nothing about the player changes; the Studio is simply where its takes go to grow up.

Getting there

In the player, the Studio button carries your session across — your captured tiles, your setup, the tempo and key you set — so the bench opens with your work already on it. The Studio is desktop-only for now: on a phone the player says so plainly, and a one-tap hand-off carries your world to desktop. Share links always open the player: what you send a friend is the playable instrument, never a mixing desk, and from there the Studio is one press away.

The bench at a glance

Your own sounds

Import a recording — sing a note, tap a glass, play a phrase on anything near you — and the Studio turns it into an instrument. Any genre can be re-voiced through it, so the piece keeps the music you shaped and takes on a sound only you could have supplied. Gather a handful of samples and you can build a small pack of your own from them.

Free, and the one-time unlock

The whole Studio is free in the browser: layer, balance, place, re-voice, record, and keep three named sketches. The one-time unlock — the same single $59 unlock as the player, $29 with student verification — adds export of stems and MIDI, saving the WAV of your takes, and unlimited sketches. It is never a subscription, and your work is never held: nothing you make is deleted, and saving over your own sketches is never blocked.

On the desktop

The browser is the canonical Studio — the full bench, always current, with nothing to install. A desktop shell exists as unsigned preview packaging for its own window; the browser remains the way in today.

A five-step first session

  1. Bring your session across

    On a desktop, press the Studio button in the player. Your captured tiles and setup travel with you — the Studio opens with your work already on the bench, so you continue rather than start over.

  2. Stack a few takes

    Put two or three captured takes in the layer rack and hear them together. Mute one, solo another — the arrangement starts as listening.

  3. Balance and place each layer

    Give each layer its own EQ, pan, and space so every part has somewhere to sit, then shape the whole mix with the master EQ and effects. Small moves go a long way.

  4. Re-voice with your own sound

    Import a recording — a note you hummed, a glass you tapped — and it becomes an instrument. Play any genre through it and the piece is suddenly yours twice over.

  5. Name the sketch

    Save the whole bench as a named sketch and come back to it any time. Three named sketches are free; the one-time unlock makes them unlimited.

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