So I moved my little face-maker into a new section: Toys! Not only that, but I've added a new toy! A melody-maker! I was actually looking for a way to combine my hobbies, and I thought about coding up a way to generate semi-random melodies (in key) as a springboard for songwriting... so I did! I'm using the awesome midilib ruby gem for this. It turned out to be more fun than I expected! If you set the tempo to 240 and turn on the "harmonize" option, you'll get some retro Nintendo-ish tunes.

I'm going to be messing with this more in the next couple of days... hopefully adding more scales, maybe chord progressions behind the melodies, and a simple metronome so you know where the beat is. Fun!