Monoglyph is a software company in England. We make Monoglyph Audio, a line of plugins that read rhythm as text, and MidiSlayer, a sight-reading trainer for anyone with a MIDI piano. Both are sold outright, and beyond a daily licence check, neither phones home.
Monoglyph AudioPlugins that treat rhythm as a language.
Small, focused audio plugins, each built around one idea. Strand, the first, is a gate you program in one line of pattern notation: Euclid, alternation and probability are a symbol each. Lattice, Cadence and Tick are next.
x ~ [x x] <x ~> x(3,8)
MidiSlayerThe sight-reading trainer that judges every note.
Plug in a MIDI piano, play what is on the staff, and get told the truth in real time. Nine training modes, graded reading from Initial to Grade 8, a timed exam mode, and an arcade wing for the days practice needs a scoreboard.
Everything we sell is held to the same rules, and each one is something you can check.
mono: one idea per product, carried all the way through. Not a suite, not a platform, not a bundle of things that half-work together.
glyph: the smallest unit of meaning. A character in a codebase, a note on a staff, a symbol in a pattern. Software is thousands of them, and they all matter.
Most of our time goes into the products. Between releases we take on a small amount of client work, usually in one of four shapes.
Software that needs to exist: a desktop app, a web platform, the pipeline behind it. From first sketch to signed, auto-updating release, unglamorous parts included.
Desktop apps, web apps and sites, real-time audio and MIDI, CI/CD and cloud.
A codebase nobody trusts, an architecture call that keeps getting deferred, a quiet “is this a terrible idea?” Audits, system design, and a second pair of eyes that has seen things.
Code audits, architecture review, technical due diligence, second opinions.
The report someone assembles by hand every Monday, the spreadsheet that is secretly a database, the five tools that refuse to talk to each other. Scripts, integrations and small internal tools that take the chore off a person.
Workflow automation, integrations and APIs, scripting, LLM-assisted pipelines.
A risky idea made testable in days, AI included where it genuinely helps and skipped where it doesn’t. With an honest report at the end, even when the honest report is “don’t”.
Prototypes, feasibility spikes, LLM integration, internal tools.
Not sure which shape yours is? Describe it in an email and you'll get a straight answer, not a sales call.
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