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Synthia for iPhone


I meant to post this yesterday. Synthia is a small but powerful polyphonic synthesizer for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

A bank of cascaded-triple-oscillator frequency modulation (FM) synthesizers provides a broad palette of sounds from percussion to strings with over 170 million variations.

The keyboard can be scrolled across the full 88 keys of a piano from A0 to C8. You can even change the size of the keys to suit the size of your fingers. The keys are touch sensitive - the harder you tap a key the louder the sound.

There are 14 synthesizer controls:
  • Amplitude attack
  • Amplitude decay
  • Register (octave) shift
  • Portamento (for "sliding" from note to note)
  • Modulator 1 attack
  • Modulator 1 decay
  • Modulator 1 frequency ratio
  • Modulator 1 modulation index
  • Modulator 1 and dynamic modulation
  • Modulator 2 attack
  • Modulator 2 decay
  • Modulator 2 frequency ratio
  • Modulator 2 modulation index
  • Modulator 2 and dynamic modulation
The FM frequency ratio defines the harmonic frequencies, modulation index controls the number of harmonics, and dynamic modulation defines how the harmonics change in time.

Synthia at the app store:
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2 comments:

  1. jaybry842:34 pm

    This looks pretty good but even at a dollar I can't justify buying a music app anymore without pasteboard support. There should at least be .wav export but I don't see any mentioned.

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  2. ashley12:37 am

    I know what you mean, stand alone apps have to really shine now

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