interface / Symbolic
Grid Layout
A 2D interval grid system design where vertical and horizontal movements represent specific semitone intervals. Used as the foundation for grid-based music interfaces.
How it works
This object can carry concrete values or a musical interpretation, depending on its notation.
Written forms
Ways to write this concept
Each notation describes the same underlying object. Open an example to see it in every other notation, or load it to hear one MIDI realization in the Code Sequencer.
named
Open guideNamed grid layouts with predefined interval patterns
- aura
- chromatic-fourths
chromatic-fifths
interval
Open guideGrid defined by vertical-horizontal interval notation
Choose Load beside a convertible example to open its live player. Some catalog formats describe analysis or a display label and have no note realization yet.
Concept connections
Note setA group of concrete MIDI pitches with octaves. It specifies one voicing and can be reduced to pitch classes or a rootless point shape.Grid PositionA chord or scale position on a 2D interval grid system, where vertical and horizontal movements represent specific semitone intervalsPitch-class setA selection of the twelve pitch classes, independent of octave and order. It says which pitches are present without choosing a chord root or voicing.ScoreA polyphonic texture — several voices (temporalized lines / tracks) sounding at once over a shared timeline. The simultaneous counterpart of a note-set: where a note-set stacks single notes into a chord, a score stacks whole lines. Its `groupOf` is note-sequence. Collapse the voices at each instant and you get a chord progression (note-set-sequence) — the resulting chord qualities of the simultaneous notes; conversely, a chord progression can be voice-led into a score. Strip pitch and it becomes a point-score (key-independent counterpoint).Piano rollA 2-D pitch×time grid — the canonical symbolic ML tensor. Each cell marks whether a pitch sounds at a time step; the spatial layout of a score / note-sequence laid out on a grid. A representation, not a new structural object: it renders existing symbolic music for models and editors.Note sequenceAn ordered line of notes and optional rests. Adding durations makes its rhythmic placement explicit.