Developer · Dad
Frank Delporte
Java Champion, author of "Java Programming for Raspberry Pi", host of the Foojay Podcast and maintainer of open-source projects like Pi4J. He designs the architecture and writes the Java and JavaFX code.
webtechie.be →// About Us
About Us
A father-and-son project born from a love of music and code.
// Made by people
Two people. One band.
MelodyMatrix is not a product from an anonymous AI factory. It's built, tested and supported by a father and his son: a developer and a musician who wanted to see what's happening in their music.
Musician · Son
Vik Delporte
Pianist, drummer and composer, behind the drums since he was three. Vik decides how MelodyMatrix should look and feel for a musician, tests every release with his own playing, and keeps the app honest.
vikdelportemusic.be →How we use AI
AI is a tool that lets us build more, and faster. We treat it like a colleague in the team: it works within strict guidelines, and every design decision, line of code and release is reviewed and tested by the two of us.
Questions, ideas or a problem? You'll reach us, the real us, at hello@melodymatrix.rocks
Who We Are
MelodyMatrix is a project by Frank and Vik Delporte, father and son, under the umbrella of CodeWriter bv, Frank’s software company based in Belgium.
Frank is a Java Champion with a deep passion for JavaFX and desktop application development. He has been writing Java for years and loves pushing the boundaries of what’s possible on the desktop.
Vik is a 16-year-old musician with a big music talent and a growing interest in combining that musical background with computers and AI-assisted coding. MelodyMatrix is his playground as much as Frank’s.
A Bit of History
It started with a simple question: why is it so hard to visualize and understand what’s happening in a MIDI file? Frank and Vik began experimenting with Java, JavaFX, and Kotlin to build their own viewer, one that would show the music in a way that actually makes sense to a musician.
Over time, that experiment grew into MelodyMatrix: a multi-view MIDI tool with multiple ways to “look at music”. We kept adding features we actually wanted as musicians, and kept the codebase clean enough that we could share it with the world.
We open-sourced the viewer components, hoping to inspire more developers to explore desktop application development with Java and JavaFX — and to invite contributions that make MelodyMatrix even better.
How Sales Work
All purchases and license management are handled by Polar, which acts as our Merchant of Record. This means Polar handles payment processing, VAT and tax calculations, license issuance, and compliance. We can focus on building the app, they handle the administration.
If you have any issue with a purchase, just reach out, and we’ll work with Polar to get it resolved. We don’t store your payment details.
For full details, see our Legal page.
Privacy
We are not interested in your data. We collect almost nothing:
- If you buy a license: Polar stores your purchase data so we can help with license issues. We store the email so we can send you the license key, now and in the future. That’s it.
- In the app: we only count the number of license checks. No usage tracking, no telemetry, no analytics.
- On this website: we use Clicky with anonymized IPs and no tracking cookies, just to get a rough sense of visitor numbers.
Your music is yours. We don’t spy on what you play or how you use the app.
For full details, see our Privacy Policy.
Disclaimers
MelodyMatrix is in no way endorsed by or affiliated with the MIDI Manufacturers Association, Creative Technology Ltd., E-mu Systems, Inc., or any other organization mentioned on this site. SoundFont® is a registered trademark of Creative Technology Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.