Syntien 4+

OSC Control Surface

Ryan Laney

Designed for iPad

    • 3.9 • 7 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Syntien is a customizable OSC (Open Sound Control) control surface for iOS. It can recognize a variety of different input types, including touch, movement, and sound.

It comes with the usual variety of buttons, labels, sliders, and knobs, but adds much more to your toolkit with a unique set of controls.
• Use an adjustable, resizable Keyboard control to send MIDI note and velocity data. Sending pitch information via OSC has never been easier!
• The Touch Pad control takes full advantage of the many touch gestures on iOS. Track five touches independently on on iPhone, and even more on iPad. Transmit data including position, force (if your device has 3D Touch), speed, and number of touches. Recognize Pinch gestures, Rotation gestures, Swipe gestures, and Long Press gestures, with unique visual feedback for each.
• The Gesture control tracks shake gestures and orientation changes.
• The Scope control uses data from your device's accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer to transmit your device's acceleration, rotation, or nearby magnetic field strength. Tie the device rotation to a smooth, continuous sound, or trigger interesting gestures with changes in acceleration.
• Use the Sound Level Meter to track audio input levels, and use the Spectrogram control to detect pitch.

Create your own interfaces and modify the behavior of controls in-app, on any iOS device, without the need for a separate desktop editor! You can use one of the built-in presets, duplicate one for a solid starting point, or build your own from scratch. Place and resize controls exactly how you want them using intuitive drag-and-drop gestures.

Modify your interfaces mid-performance with OSC messages from your computer! Add controls, remove controls, or adjust their behavior with the click of a button. Incoming OSC messages are displayed on the screen and color-coded, so you'll know exactly what messages Syntien is receiving and whether or not they're being interpreted.

What’s New

Version 1.1.1

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

- Fixes a bug where some controls are not saved sometimes when automatic saving is enabled
- Minor bug fixes and performance improvements

Ratings and Reviews

3.9 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

Higurashi_dan ,

Best sub $5 option for controlling TouchDesigner I’ve found

I use the OSC sending/receiving constantly for controlling vastly different tasks in TouchDesigner on my workstation. Sliders for my audio processing pipeline, 2D sliders for PiP coordinates control and even more sliders for the scale control. Index selectors for the PiP channels, using the multibar sliders as a real-time volume monitor for pre and post mix levels, using the labels to show render FPS, interaction counts, etc. I do wish working with OSC on this app was a bit cleaner and more consistent. My iPad has a bad habit of not reopening ports that were either previously used in a prior session, or relaunching from a crash. I’ll usually have to swap to new ports on both the client(iPad) and server(TD) ends. That’s also probably just a quirk of OSC. But about the mentioned crash, if you receive an OSC message in a format it doesn’t like or you malformed some bytes, it’ll hard crash the app instantly. I’d hope for error handling there. Lastly, a pipe dream of mine, would be some form of way to have an optional response callback when receiving a message to a specific control address. Say my server sends a message to a slider to set itself to a value such as 0, it would also send a 0 back to the server from that controller’s address as if the operator themselves set the value. As it works right now, if a slider was set to 0.5 by the operator and the app received a message to set the slider to 0, it only visually adjusts the slider in the client to 0. In my Server environment the slider value will still be 0.5 from my OSC listener. Maybe even the ability to update multiple controls with a single OSC bundle would be neat. Otherwise a great product!

Starwynd ,

Crashes

App crashes as soon as I set the correct IP and port for the OSC receiving application to communicate. Then when it restarts the details are reset to default. Can’t use the app if it crashes when connecting. Can’t save if it crashes when setting addresses.

App Privacy

The developer, Ryan Laney, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.

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