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Softify

Mohan Kumar M P

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Your coding session becomes a live music performance. Every keystroke plays a note — melodies, scales, and rhythms that react to how you type.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Softify

Your coding session becomes a live music performance.

Every keystroke plays a note. The rhythm of the music follows the rhythm of your typing — fast typing creates fast melodies, slow contemplative typing creates sparse, breathing music.

Features

  • Keystroke-driven music — each key you press plays the next note in a musical scale
  • Character-aware sounds — different sounds for letters, brackets, semicolons, Enter, Space, and deletions
  • Language-based scales — each programming language maps to its own musical key and scale
  • Velocity dynamics — typing faster plays louder notes, slow typing is softer
  • Error dissonance — chord shifts when your code has errors
  • Debug mode — slower, more contemplative music when debugging
  • AI flourish — ascending arpeggio when you accept an AI autocomplete suggestion
  • Zero dependencies — no audio files, no external packages, fully procedural sound generation

How It Works

Key Type Sound
Letters / Numbers Warm plucked note, walks up and down the scale
Enter Deep resonant thud — phrase ending
Space Soft fifth interval note
{ } ( ) [ ] Bright accent note
; , . Short staccato pluck
Deletion Muted lower note, walks back down

Language → Music Mapping

Language Key Scale
JavaScript A minor Pentatonic minor
TypeScript A Dorian
Python C major Pentatonic major
Rust / C / C++ B♭ Blues
Go B Pentatonic major
CSS / HTML F Pentatonic major

Getting Started

  1. Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P)
  2. Run Softify: Start
  3. Start typing in any file

Toggle: Ctrl+Alt+S (Windows/Linux) / Cmd+Alt+S (Mac)

Settings

Setting Default Description
softify.volume 0.6 Master volume (0–1)
softify.autoStart false Start automatically on VS Code launch

Requirements

  • Linux: aplay (part of alsa-utils, pre-installed on most distros)
  • macOS: afplay (built into macOS)
  • Windows: PowerShell (built into Windows)

No additional installation needed.

License

Copyright (c) 2026 Mohan Kumar M P. All rights reserved.

You may install and use Softify freely. You may not copy, modify, or redistribute the source code.

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