kan! listens through your microphone and follows the notes you play. No buttons, no plastic controllers: just your ocarina and a song you love. A calm way to learn an instrument with a game.
Free, no ads. An early version, made for calm practice.
Each note travels on the lane of its pitch, so you can read the melody as it comes. Play it on your instrument when it reaches the line: kan! checks the pitch and the timing as you play, on your own computer.
It is forgiving by default. A little early or a little flat is still a good note, and nothing pushes you to keep a streak.
Bring a song from your computer. kan!forge listens to it, writes the notes for your instrument, and lays them over the music so you can see every phrase.
Then fix what it got wrong in a piano roll: draw, move and snap notes to the beat, set the tempo, and test the level before you share it.
kan! can separate a recording into stems, so you can take the melody out and play it yourself while the rest of the band keeps playing.
The separation runs on your computer. Nothing is uploaded.
Mods change how a level plays. The gentle ones help beginners learn; the strict ones are there when you want a challenge. You choose, nothing is forced.
kan! is built for any instrument, but each one needs real players to test it. This is where it stands.
Developed and played daily on a 12-hole alto C ocarina.
A4 · B4 · C5 … E6 · F6
Other instruments and chords will come as the community tries them and helps polish them. If you play something else, your feedback shapes what comes next.
Unzip it and open kan!. You need a microphone; the one in a laptop works.
kan-win-x64.zip
macOS, Apple siliconM1 and newerkan-osx-arm64.zip
macOS, IntelOlder Macskan-osx-x64.zip
Linux64-bitkan-linux-x64.zip
On macOS the app is not signed yet, so the first time macOS will say it cannot check the developer. Control-click kan! and choose Open.
Windows and macOS builds are new and still being tested on real machines. If something goes wrong, tell us on GitHub. All versions are on the releases page.
kan! listens only while you play. The sound is analysed on your computer and is never recorded or sent anywhere.
You can play and make levels without one. An account adds level downloads and leaderboards; create it inside the game. Your email is never shown to anyone, and kan! sends no email.
No ads and nothing to buy. The code is public, so anyone can read what the game does.
Yes. kan! is free, with no ads and nothing to buy. The code is public, so anyone can read what the game does.
kan! is tested today on the ocarina, including a 12-hole alto C ocarina, and on instruments that play one note at a time. Other instruments and chords will come as the community tests them.
No. kan! listens only while you play. The sound is analysed on your computer and is never recorded or sent anywhere.
No. You can play and make levels without one. An account adds level downloads and leaderboards, and you create it inside the game.
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), macOS on Apple silicon and Intel, and Linux (64-bit). You need a microphone; the one in a laptop works.