haakemusic

Thomas Haake is an independent developer and musician based in Vorarlberg, Austria.

His tools are built for musicians — not as feature demonstrations, but as focused solutions to real problems encountered in daily musical practice.

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NoteChart (in development — macOS).

A lead sheet application designed for working musicians. NoteChart fills the gap between simple chord chart tools and complex notation suites: chords, melody, lyrics and rhythm notation in one fast, intuitive workflow.

The core concept is unique: a bar equals a chord. Bar length equals chord duration. Two notation modes — a chord-focused open system and a full five-line staff — can be mixed per bar within the same chart. Audio import with automatic BPM detection and chord recognition per bar accelerates transcription workflows.

Built with Flutter and Rust/C++, using the SMuFL font standard (Bravura). MusicXML and iReal Pro import/export.

Beta access: tally.so/r/D40QR5.

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Drone Pad (macOS · iOS).

A precision drone synthesizer for musicians who depend on accurate intonation — and for anyone who experiences sound as meditation.

Drone Pad generates one or more sustained reference tones in equal or just intonation, with 16 individually controllable intervals from unison to perfect twelfth. Each voice has its own waveform, volume, and phase offset. Up to 7 oscillators per voice with continuous detune create natural acoustic beating — not through effects, but through physics.

Features: LFO with amplitude modulation and wave animation, synthesized reverb (live convolver), Lowpass filter with resonance, soft attack envelope, 10 colour themes.

Available on Mac App Store and iOS App Store.
haakemusic.com.

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PatchDirector (macOS · iOS).

A sound repository and patch manager for virtual and hardware synthesizers. Organises, tags and retrieves patches across instruments — built for musicians who work with large sound libraries and need fast access during sessions and performances.

Open source. github.com/notebynote/patchdirector.