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Hexpress musical instrument on Windows Pc

Developed By: CastleWrath

License: Free

Rating: 4,2/5 - 954 votes

Last Updated: April 17, 2024

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version	0.39.0
Size	16 MB
Release Date	November 28, 23
Category	Music & Audio Apps
App Permissions: Allows access to the vibrator. [see more (3)]
What's New: A new piano instrumentAll instruments adapted to various displays aspect ratiosSound sample fixed to reduce crackingSmall visual updates adaptations [see more]
Description from Developer: Hexpress is a collection of musical instruments for your phone. You can use it for learning, playing and composing music whenever you have the time - on train, while waiting in lin... [read more]

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About this app

On this page you can download Hexpress musical instrument and install on Windows PC. Hexpress musical instrument is free Music & Audio app, developed by CastleWrath. Latest version of Hexpress musical instrument is 0.39.0, was released on 2023-11-28 (updated on 2024-04-17). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 100,000. Overall rating of Hexpress musical instrument is 4,2. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 954 users, 76 users had rated it 5*, 626 users had rated it 1*.

How to install Hexpress musical instrument on Windows?

Instruction on how to install Hexpress musical instrument on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install Hexpress musical instrument on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Install using BlueStacks
Install using NoxPlayer

Step By Step Guide To Install Hexpress musical instrument using BlueStacks

Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
Once installed, click "Hexpress musical instrument" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to install Hexpress musical instrument on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "Hexpress musical instrument" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Download older versions

Other versions available: 0.39.0 , 0.37.0.

Download Hexpress musical instrument 0.39.0 on Windows PC – 16 MB

Download Hexpress musical instrument 0.37.0 on Windows PC – 6.8 MB

Hexpress is a collection of musical instruments for your phone. You can use it for learning, playing and composing music whenever you have the time - on train, while waiting in line and during boring meetings. Using headphones (non-bluetooth) is strongly recommended for louder and better sound quality, and to not disturb others around you. The application has simple, colorful and clean interface designed to be accessible to young children.

While each instrument behaves differently in some way, in general notes are played by touching shapes on the screen, and sound is shaped by tilting the phone left-right and up-down. Different instruments have different effect controls - fade in, reverb, tremolo...

Most of Hexpress instruments have unusual honeycomb note arrangement that's sometimes called "harmonic table note layout". It is identical Tonnetz layout, only rotated. It has many interesting properties compared to standard piano layout:

• effective utilization of device screen (3+ octaves range)
• note relations (intervals) are uniform across whole range; to transpose song to different key just play same patterns on different part of instrument
• most chord shapes are grouped tightly and they can be executed with single finger swipe
• in typical scale and melody runs, notes are alternated between fingers of two hands, so they can be played with speed and precision
• large intervals are as accessible as smaller intervals

Besides honeycomb layout there are also instruments with conventional fretboard, and a drum set for finger-drumming.

The app features a looper used to record repeating section. The looper is enabled from main screen and can be used in almost all instruments. Saving or exporting loops is not supported in app.

Instruments are not meant to be reconfigured within the app. One reason for this is that it gives you a chance to actually learn the instrument (you couldn't learn a guitar if the tuning was different each time). The other reason is that constraints and limitations actually encourage creativity and make it more accessible to younger users. I'd like to improve existing instruments' sounds and visuals based on your feedback, but there will most likely never be any settings/options to fiddle with.

The app is work in progress - interface, sounds and features are all subject to change. The app doesn't collect ANY information about user and cannot access internet. Microphone permission is optional and is used in single instrument for recording it's samples.

Hexpress is without ads, free and open-source. Your feedback is much appreciated.

A new piano instrument
All instruments adapted to various displays aspect ratios
Sound sample fixed to reduce cracking
Small visual updates adaptations

Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows an application to record audio.