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EXA: The Infinite Instrument is a virtual-reality music-making environment where you create instruments, perform and record music, and build virtual bands. You can compose songs from loops of your notes and movements, then replay and customize your performances.

Play and shape sounds

EXA’s musical shapes, called ringers, make sound when you interact with them using tools such as a mallet, violin bow or proximity tool. Their response depends on the velocity and angle of your playing. You can assign sounds to ringers using Soundfont (SF2) files or WAV, AIFF and OGG samples; EXA includes over 1,000 built-in sounds, and you can import your own. You can also set a ringer to a specific note, shift its pitch, or apply a scale or interval across selected ringers.

Create instruments

There are four ringer shapes, which you can move and resize to make custom instruments. The draw tool lets you sketch new ringers, while group and clone features help you arrange them. You can build layouts such as curved rows around you, grids, chord stacks, guitar-like strings or radial patterns, or start with the included pre-built layouts and reusable instrument bundles. Instruments you create can be saved as bundles for use elsewhere.

Record and arrange loops

The loop recorder captures both the notes you play and the motions you make. When a loop plays back, an optional robot performer repeats your movements. To record, you hit the recorder’s red ringer; it counts down to the next metronome beat, then starts recording on that beat. Recording ends when you hit the red ringer again or use auto-stop.

Once recorded, a loop can be played and adjusted: you can change its sound, volume and duration, or quantize its notes to the metronome. In the sequencer, you link rows to loops and place playback events in those rows to schedule them and assemble songs.

Perform and export

You can combine custom instruments, loops, robot performers and playback scheduling to produce virtual-band performances. You can replay and customize performances, share them, and export loops and songs as WAV audio or send live MIDI output across 64 channels. The EXA Remix package lets third-party developers load, display and customize full EXA performances in Unity-based software.

EXA also includes in-app audio-device selection, teleport and slide-based locomotion, and a high-quality display mode for recording videos or performing live.