A keyboard where every note is decided by a small crowd. You play; voters cluster around your pitch; the system picks one and plays it.
How to play
- Press a key on the keyboard.
- The simulated voters each cast a vote. Most cluster around your choice; some scatter to nearby notes.
- The chosen note plays.
Controls
VotingMode voting: the most-voted note wins. With Voices set above 1, the top-voted notes are played together as a chord.
VotersCrowd size, 3 to 24.
VoicesHow many sustained voices the synth holds.
TempoFor visual feedback only: the speed at which votes settle.
MIDIOn the tape module: ↓ MIDI downloads the recorded tape as a standard MIDI file — one round per beat at the chosen tempo. ↗ Enable streams every vote and tape-playback note in real time to a virtual MIDI port (IAC Driver on Mac, loopMIDI on Windows), so Piano feeds directly into Live, Logic, or any DAW.
What this demonstrates
The simplest case in the project: one decision (which note to play) shared among many. Mode voting rewards distinct preferences and produces stranger collective harmonies: clusters of taste, not averages of them. With more voters, the result drifts further from your individual choice. The same patterns play out at every scale.
For a comparison with mean voting (where all the votes are averaged together, usually toward something flatter), see the Mean Mode prototype.