synthmate

polyphonic synth for ipad


: Features

  • real-time control, low latency
  • multi-touch interface, change anything while playing
  • 5 note polyphony
  • 1 oscilator unit per touch: control pitch, volume
  • 1 lfo unit per touch: control speed, amount
  • 1 delay unit : control time, feedback
  • Y axis assignable control
  • edit scales, range, portamento and micro-tune
  • record and playback performances
  • load/save all settings

 : Control Surface

This elegant and responsive control surface is used to play the polyphonic synth. Using a simple design, the user can use 1 hand (5 or less fingers) to play the synth while with the other hand, control the synth by picking between Presets, Scope, Scale or Parameters panel. Working in both landscape and portrait modes, with the x-axis assigned to pitch and y-axis as user assigned.

surface2



back to top


: Scope

Scope allows the user to control the root note, octave, number of octaves (range), micro tune and portamento.


back to top

: Scale

WIth this panel the user can either select a Scale from a list of preset scales or make their own. When the Patch is saved, unique Scales are automatically added to the scale preset list.


back to top

: Parameters

This panel exposes the synth parameters available for editing and assigning to the y-axis. These include a selection of wave types for both the source oscillator and LFO, volume, delay time and feedback, LFO destination (amp or frequency), LFO frequency and LFO amplitude. The user can also assign the y-axis of the control surface to control one of these parameters (except for LFO destination).


back to top

recordbadge : Record / Play

Make recordings and playback performances. Sound files are saved as .wav files and accessible through iTunes file sharing.

recordingsPanel

back to top

: Load / Save Patches

Users can load and save patches even while playing the synth.


 : iPod music

Synthmate works while ipod music is playing so users can play along with their favourite music.

 back to top