Syntorial 2 4+

Synthesizer Training App

Audible Genius

    • 4.9 • 53 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Master synthesis and start bringing the sounds you hear to life

Syntorial is a synthesizer training app, that will teach you how to program synth patches by ear. By combining video demonstrations with interactive challenges, you’ll get hands on experience programming patches on a built-in soft synth, and learn everything you need to know to start making your own sounds with ease.

"Syntorial is the most direct route between hearing a sound in your head and knowing how to bring it to life." - Electronic Musician Magazine

"The most comprehensive and fun tool for learning synthesizer programming, hands down." - Keyboard Magazine

“The best training in synth sound-design we’ve come across. A unique and fun way to train your ears in re-creating synth sounds.” - MusicTech Magazine

* Electronic Musician Editor's Choice 2014 *


HIGHLIGHTS

• Interactive Learning: Syntorial doesn’t just show you how synth programming works. It engages you in Interactive Challenges in which you program patches on a built-in synth. You aren’t just learning how to design sound, you are becoming a sound designer.

• For Musicians, Not Physicists: Instead of talking about the science and physics behind synthesizers, Syntorial will show you how each control effects sound, as well as when, why and how you would use them when designing sounds. This is information that you can immediately apply to real-life situations.

• It's All About The Ear: One step at a time, Syntorial trains your ear to recognize how each control shapes and manipulates sound. By the end of the program you’ll be able to take the sounds you hear and re-create them, completely by ear.


WHAT'S NEW IN V2?
• Brand new look
• Learn modulation easier with the Visualizer
• Revamped videos with faster pace and face-to-face guidance with Joe Hanley
• Randomizer mode for endless practice
• Remapped parameters and more nuanced scoring
• Shorter group challenges, and optional bonus rounds
• And more...


LESSON SPECS

• Challenges: Learn by doing! Complete challenges by programming patches with Syntorial’s built-in synth.

• Videos: Everything is taught through video demonstrations using the same synth that you’ll use in the challenges.

• Patches: Program, program, program. After all, that’s what it’s all about, right? By the end you will have programmed tons of patches, from simple to complex, familiar to strange.

• Quizzes: Multiple choice questions to help you retain and remember everything you learn.

• On Your Own: Syntorial will give you periodic tasks to be carried out on your own with whatever synth(s) you use.




SYNTH SPECS
• Three Oscillators (Two with Waveform, Pitch, Pulse Width, and Mix controls, and a Sub oscillator with Waveform and Volume controls)
• FM knob
• White Noise
• Oscillator Sync
• Filter (Low, Band and High Pass) with Resonance and Key Tracking
• ADSR Filter Envelope
• ADSR Amp Envelope
• AD Modulation Envelope
• LFO with four waveforms, seven destinations, rate, amount, trigger, and mono/poly modes
• Mono and Poly Voice Modes
• Portamento
• Unison with Voice, Detune and Spread controls
• Ring Modulation
• Distortion, Chorus, Phaser, Delay, and Reverb effects
Mod Wheel, Pitch Wheel and Velocity controls


FREE VS UPGRADE

The free app comes with the first 22 Lessons, additional Lesson Pack samples, as well as Syntorial's fully featured synth. Upgrade to get:

• All 197 Lessons, including 128 Challenges, 148 Videos, and 706 Patches covering the most common synthesis parameters.

• Additional Lesson Packs covering Serum, Massive, Sylenth1, andmore, each containing 30+ videos.

• Pay once and get access to all of the above on iPad, Mac and PC. Sync your progress across all 3 platforms. Train where you want, when you want, and how you want.

• Plugin version of Syntorial's synth, Primer. Program, record and play Primer in your favorite desktop recording software. VST (Mac/PC) and AU (Mac).


Syntorial: A New Way To Learn Synthesis

What’s New

Version 2.1.002

New Feature: Japanese translation!! If it's your first time opening the app, you'll be given the option to choose your language. Otherwise go into the Menu at the top left -> Language -> Japanese

New Feature: English subtitles.

New Feature: Update notifications

Minor bug fixes

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
53 Ratings

53 Ratings

kdnull ,

Best way to learn synth!

I’ve tried (and failed) several other approaches to learn synth - this is the best method I’ve come across. The guy has the heart of a teacher and presents concepts in an easy-to-learn way, with video tutorials, demonstrations, and challenges that test knowledge. The app is everything it needs to be for this material. Cannot recommend highly enough!

ACozz333 ,

Great but knobs are hard to move on v2

This is a great app. The education you will get and the demos/challenges make the real life usage of a synth clear to anyone. V2 has great features…however on a newer iPad Pro, the knobs are so difficult to get to move that it mostly renders them useless which makes the program also useless. I’m going back to v1 for now, so disappointed. Hopefully a fix will come soon.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the feedback! Regarding the knobs, please see this help doc: https://syntorial.helpdocs.com/troubleshooting/im-having-trouble-turning-the-knobs. If you still have trouble please reach out to us at support@syntorial.com so we can investigate further.

benonemusic ,

Superb app for learning synthesis

This is a thorough, authoritative, easy to use, and fun way to learn synth programming. The lessons are clear, and the challenges are doable yet rigorous. Comprehensive and applicable to any other subtractive synthesizer out there I can’t recommend this enough.

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