A pocket instrument for lo-fi producers.
Twelve moods, chords that lead themselves, and four bars you can turn into a whole song. Made to be played, not configured.
Matcha began with a small wish: to make a lo-fi loop feel like sitting down and playing, not opening a session. No timeline, no plugins, no theory. A few chords that fall into place, and an ink that moves when you do.
Tap a quality, drag the voicing open or closed. Every change is voice-led, so a progression holds together without you thinking about it. The keyboard lights the notes as they sound: one octave on iPhone, two on iPad.
Rhodes, pads, bells and organ, plus a sampler. Bass that walks or holds the root, drums with real swing, reverb and chorus to soften the edges.
Export a video where the ink blooms with every chord, and save it to Photos or send it on. Recording your own four bars is part of Studio.
A reactive ink-wash background that moves with the music, a dark room that stays out of the way, and a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
Each pack fixes the synth, bass, drums, swing, tempo, chord palette and colour. Choose a mood and begin — change it whenever you like. Eight to start with; four Signature Packs come with Studio.
In Studio · Rainy Taipei · Dusty Cassette · Bedroom R&B · Night Train — each with its own chords, sound, groove and colour.
One purchase, yours forever — no subscription and no account. Try it before you buy: the app plays a built-in demo song, and Matcha Magic will arrange your own four bars into a whole track as many times as you like. Studio is for keeping it.
Pick a mood and Matcha lays out an intro, verses that build, a lift and an outro — drums, bass and ink all following the energy of each section. Listen to as many takes as you like; Studio saves the one you want.
Reorder, duplicate and rename sections, set how hard each one hits, and swap the loop underneath. Playback crosses section boundaries without a gap.
Three directions from wherever you are — stay chill, add tension, or take me home. Pick a feeling instead of a chord name.
Rainy Taipei, Dusty Cassette, Bedroom R&B and Night Train — each a complete kit with its own curated progressions. You can hear any of them before you buy.
Record your own four bars, then export a MIDI file (chords, bass and GM drums on their own channels), audio stems, or the whole song. Matcha also installs as an AUv3 instrument — Matcha: Chord Synth — so you can play the same voices inside GarageBand, Logic, AUM or Cubasis.
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