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Musical physics
Each note becomes a floating, bouncy object. Touch & motion controls let you move & spin the shapes that contain them.
Playtonik iOS musical instrument
Physics you can play.
A musical fidget app where bouncing shapes become sound, space & touch.
Playtonik is a 2025 MIDI Innovation Award-winning instrument for iPhone/iPad. Tap, Shake & Play, then connect MIDI & Playtonik Pro for deeper control.
How it feels
Every note has weight, movement and a place in space.
Playtonik turns a familiar keyboard into a small physics playground. Notes ricochet inside responsive shapes, making sound where they collide & feeding that movement back through the device.
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Spatial audio
Sounds are created where notes collide. Each voice moves through a different point in space, especially clearly on headphones.
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Dynamic haptics
Feel each bounce. Collision intensity is mapped to haptic feedback, from gentle texture to a much stronger impact.
Interaction
Tap, strum, spin & move.
Playtonik is designed for direct, expressive play. Use touch, device motion or an external keyboard, then shape the result with velocity, latching & looping tools.
Performance
Tools for finding a phrase & keeping it moving.
- Scale-mapped keyboard to keep performances in tune
- Visible velocity & expressive note control
- Strum gestures for quick note sequences
- Latched notes that keep the shapes moving
- Tap sequencing using the selected scale
- Loop recording for up to 20 seconds of playing
MIDI Input & output
Connect a keyboard, another instrument, or both.
Trigger Playtonik from external hardware, send its notes elsewhere, filter incoming MIDI to the selected scale. Note & CC input are included in every version, with additional control available in Playtonik Pro.
CC input mapping
Map a controller to Playtonik's most useful performance parameters.
| Description | CC | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Shape change | 0 | 0-4 |
| Spin impulse | 1 | +/- 63 |
| Volume | 7 | 0-127 |
| FX (Reverb) | 12 | 0-127 |
| Note hold | 64 | 0 / 127 |
| Spin lock | 69 | 0 / 127 |
Keep playing
Set it up, hear it in context, or ask us a question.
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