About HighC - Draw your Music
In HighC, users draw sounds on a continuous time-frequency diagram that looks like a musical score. They use purely graphical operations (such as move-resize, copy-paste, group…) to produce rapidly complex audio effects or full compositions.

HighC draws on 20 years of a world class user interface design experience to provide immediate usability. Complete novices and children understand its base features in a matter of minutes. For instance, novices have used it to create original and unique ringtones and fun “audio pictures”.

HighC is foremost a tool of choice for musicians who look for new sound effects or for an alternative approach to music composition. Its integrated interface encompasses the role of synthesizer, sequencer and mixer. The simple and unified synthesis model underpinning HighC gives access to the most common sound synthesis techniques in a graphical, intuitive and uniform framework: Additive synthesis, Waveshape, various noise-based models, but also FM synthesis, Ring modulation and granular synthesis.

With HighC, musicians are rid of the complex panels of knobs, dials and connectors, whose effects become rapidly unpredictable. Instead, all audio parameters are continuous curves placed on the time line, augmented with visual cues that depict their function and influence on the auditory experience. Thanks to its structuring functionalities: tags, patterns and libraries, HighC has the potential power of a music programming language, while not requiring mastering abstract programming concepts.

What’s New in this Version
- focused on user requests, specially from registered users
- Piece Overview on multiple lines: see menu Tools > Overview
- The keyboard view shows the current position (in groups:bars:beats:ms)
- Snapping to precise time boundaries is much easier, this allows entering rhythms easily. (see the Alphabet sample in the forum)
- Current window configuration and settings are fully preserved from one session to the next.