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Colours, shapes and emotions: David Lesage's method, the electronic Neotone handpan and tutorials to progress at your own pace.
A second handpan, acoustic or Neotone? The app asks what you want to do with the pair, shows the chords you can only play together and keeps your pairs safe.
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On an electronic handpan in Logic mode, a degree's constellation keeps the same shape whatever the key. Same gestures, different pitch — like a capo on a guitar.
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Reading the colours means answering three independent questions: what the colour says, whether shared notes split apart, and whether chords are drawn. Three settings, valid on an acoustic handpan and an electronic one alike.
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The 10-note Neotone¹ and the 19-note Neotone¹ Mutant don't serve the same project. Main instrument, voice, or a complement to your acoustic handpan: the cases where one or the other is the right choice.
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The score no longer just gets printed: it plays, lights up chord after chord, counts your repeats and goes full screen.
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A friend calls out "G minor, I-IV-V on the verse"? Three clicks and your score is ready. And if you only know the chords, the app works out the key.
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Under Logic Mode's "Sad" button, three shades of minor. Two dots rise by a semitone, and the oriental or jazz colour appears.
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Acoustic duo: when a second handpan joins the first, Handpan Constellation Studio draws each chord across both and tells you what the duo really unlocks.
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The accompaniment bar loops one chord — or a whole progression — at the tempo you choose. And when you want more, a drummer joins in.
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Handpan Constellation Studio has its world map. Every player is a star on it: a first name, an initial, a country. Everything else lights up field by field, if you want it to, and the app never knows where you are.
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Declare your pan, set a second one beside it, find your setup again on the iPad: there used to be five different paths, now there's only one. Here's which one, and what has changed.
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A D Kurd 10 gives you 6 chords and lets you accompany over 150 pieces from the repertoire. One button shows you that, before you even think about a second instrument.
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Songs to accompany, handpan pieces, your own compositions: Handpan Constellation Studio's library tells you which ones your scale can actually play.
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You have a D Kurd 10 and you're going round in circles. Set beside it, a Neotone adds exactly the notes that are missing: 2 complete keys become 24, and you can finally accompany yourself while singing.
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Drop your handpan's notes onto a timeline, listen, loop, speed up — and export as .mid. Handpan Constellation Studio's melody editor.
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Handpan Constellation Studio evolves thanks to you: from inside the app, send a bug, an idea, a question or a thought in one click. Every message is read and shapes what comes next.
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Each chord drawn as a colourful mini-handpan: notes, play order, suggested fingering. Export your chord diagrams as printable PDF or PNG.
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Song Mode shows lyrics with chord diagrams anchored above the words. Play Hallelujah or Let It Be on the handpan, no music theory needed.
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In Handpan Constellation Studio, your handpan becomes a guided surface: the app lights up the coloured note to play and walks you through, chord after chord, with sound and visual feedback.
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Export your progressions and visual scores as PDF or PNG to review, keep or pass on. Handpan Constellation Studio's visual score editor.
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The Neotone, an electronic handpan, plays through headphones: disturbing no one, in spatialised stereo sound of total purity. The discreet strength of electronic.
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Your voice doesn't sit right with the handpan? Shift the anchor note in one move and change key to sing at your natural pitch.
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A handful of chords behind thousands of songs. Discover the 4 magic chords and play them on handpan with Logic Mode.
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Deep, Bright, Wide: three Logic Mode layouts that adapt the chords to the singer's range so the voice settles naturally.
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Open-back headphones at home, in-ears on stage: my real listening setup with the Neotone — Beyerdynamic DT-990 Pro, KZ ZS12 Pro X in-ears and X-vive U4 wireless, with prices and links.
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Logic Mode turns the handpan from a meditative drone instrument into a real song-accompaniment instrument, no music theory needed.
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Play anywhere with no mains power: the Neotone and the Bose S1 Pro+ make a 100% battery-powered setup, up and running in one minute. Gear, budget and buying links.
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The Neotone has no built-in speaker: where should you place yours to be truly in the sound? My advice — behind you, at head height — with diagrams.
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Handpan Constellation Studio's acoustic mode shows YOUR scale in colour on your own handpan and teaches you chords. Free, no Neotone needed.
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Handpan Constellation Studio's Logic Mode ties each degree to a colour and an emotion. Build a chord progression and tell a story.
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Handpan Constellation Studio's Atlas lets you roam handpan scales from around the world, hear them and see them in colour. A sonic journey.
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Whether your handpan is acoustic or electronic, a chord becomes a drawing. Discover the 3 ways to trace a Constellation: Polygon, Open and Hands.
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Understand what a handpan scale is and learn to build your own, for free, in Handpan Constellation Studio's acoustic mode — then share it with the community.
Read the article → Night headphones, endless scales, effects, MIDI, studio quality: discover why an electronic Neotone handpan changes everything, and who it's made for.
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Learn handpan without music theory using ChromaKeys: every note becomes a colour, every chord a shape. David Lesage's visual method to progress fast.
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