Words
Turn Text into MIDI
Words turns text into MIDI. Type a phrase and each word becomes a musical event. You don't pick the notes. You don't play anything in. You just type, and discover what your words sound like.
Words puts distance between you and the output. That distance is the point. You'll make things you simply could never have arrived at by playing or drawing the notes yourself. Delightful melodies and rhythms appear that only exist because you weren't in direct control of creating them.
See Words in action
Type Words, Hear Music
No piano roll. No step sequencer. Just type. Each word becomes a note – pitch from letters, rhythm from syllables. Phrases become melodies. Sentences become songs.
Instant Polyrhythms
A 5-word line against a 7-word line. They phase, interlock, drift apart, reunite. Complex generative patterns that would take hours to program by hand – here in seconds.
16 Channels × 5 Voices
Stack independent patterns across every MIDI channel. Add up to 4 harmony voices per line. What emerges sounds composed, not random – lively, organic, always surprising.
Productive Alienation
You can't predict exactly what "the quick brown fox" will sound like. That constraint breaks your habits. You'll write things you'd never find clicking notes into a grid.
99 Scales
Change the root or scale and every pattern transforms together. Same text, completely different mood. From major to Phrygian dominant to Japanese Hirajoshi.
Ableton Link Sync
Lock to your DAW, drum machines, other apps. Sample-accurate timing that holds over hours.
Customer Reviews
5.0★from 3 reviews
I often find myself playing the same old chords and melodies. Again and again. Words has really helped me break free from these patterns and come up with some genuinely surprising sequences I would never have programmed or played in myself. Nifty bit of kit this.
Get Words
$49
- ✓Standalone macOS app
- ✓Lifetime updates
- ✓30-day instant refunds
macOS 14.0 Sonoma or laterApple Silicon or Intel
Technical Specifications
Core
Scales99 across 17 categories
Simultaneous loopsUp to 64
Polyphony5 voices per loop
MIDI channels16
MIDI Output
Virtual sourceAppears as "Words" in DAW
Hardware routingDirect to device/IAC
Clock resolution24 PPQ
Ableton LinkTempo + transport sync
Playback
ModesForward, Reverse, Palindrome, Random
Speed control÷8 to ×4 per loop
Tempo range20–300 BPM
Randomization
Per-loopGate, Pitch, Velocity, Octave
Per-voiceGate, Velocity, Octave, Duration
Bloom filterHarmonic density control