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about<br>No keys. No rules. Just touch and feel.<br>Etherpad abandons the piano keyboard for a fluid, scale-based canvas. Swipe across it to glide through scales; drift up and down to shape the tone itself.

A voice per touch<br>Every touch sings on its own. Chords bloom under your hand.

Gesture is music<br>Slide for pitch. Drift for tone. Lift, and it fades like breath.

Always in key<br>Twelve scales, every key — or carve your own. You can't play a wrong note.

Everywhere<br>iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android. Even inside Logic and AUM.

Bring your own studio.

AUv3 plug-in<br>Runs as an instrument inside GarageBand, AUM, and Cubasis.

MIDI & MPE<br>Record every finger's pitch and tone into your DAW — and play it back. [Beta]

Split-screen mode<br>Two independent synths, side by side. Play a duet with yourself.

Record & share<br>Capture your performance as you play it, then share it with the world.

Jam tracks<br>Load your own songs and play over them. Loop them, layer them, mix them under your melody.

Tuning<br>Open the rack: reverb, delay, and saturation — shape the space your sound lives in.

Custom scales<br>Carve your own scales — two slots, any notes you choose, in the app and the plug-in.

under the hood<br>A real synthesizer : Sound Engine<br>Every note is synthesized live by Csound — the legendary audio engine trusted by composers for four decades. Different voices, born the moment you touch.

Ether Padwarm, weightless<br>Distorted Dreamsbeautifully broken<br>Oreliastruck gold, still singing<br>Soft Trianglepure and simple<br>Digital Monka choir of one<br>Glass Choirlight through crystal<br>PWM Padanalog heartbeat<br>Morphwavealways becoming<br>Xanpalaminfrom another planet<br>FM Bellstruck, then gone

Pitch snaps to the scale you choose — Major, Blues, even microtonal worlds like Bohlen-Pierce and the raw overtone series. The notes between the notes, always in tune.<br>Curious what's under the hood? See how the engine sings.

watch<br>Hear it. See it. Feel it.<br>What people are playing around the world.

Split mode — two surfaces, one playerEtherpad ~ The Mystical SoundEthereal pads in GarageBand with Etherpad (AUv3)Jade Starr Music experimenting with the synthSoothing play of Etherpad with RangiinThe original Etherpad, played by — Paul Batchelor

tones<br>Tones people found.<br>Every tone is a little discovery — a blend of settings and a way of moving your fingers. Dial one into your Etherpad and play it, or share the one you found.

Terror<br>by Dinesh<br>scale Overtone Slowkey Csound PWM Padoctave -2<br>Watch how it's played<br>Haunted Choir<br>by Dinesh<br>scale Overtone Slowkey Csound Glass Choiroctave -2<br>Watch how it's played<br>Midnight Bells<br>by Bard<br>scale Majorkey Csound Bellsoctave +1tuning Reverb high, delay soft

Found one?<br>by YOU!<br>scale Scaled?key X?sound Which one?octave +N?tuning What made that feel?

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reviews<br>What players are saying.<br>5.0 from reviews on App Store & Google Play

MiTcHy

Finger-painting with sound! I love this app, and so does my cat. Fun, customizable, simple or complex. 100% awesome.

Midimania

This app is unbelievable, it has a good selection of sounds and different scales. Definitely got a Tonto's Expanding Head Band vibe from the 70s.

ShankarBabaa

Magic. What more can I say?

MacPaw Gibson

The Best of sound for music brain 🎉 And new Digital Monk is awesome 😇

John

It is so easy to interact with this app and I have not had so much fun in a very long time. I really appreciate you and your work. Thank you.

Mr. Evading

Just like the old days. … Thanks for making this!

A Google Play user

Cool synths. Quite good for jamming. Would love an option to load custom samples.

Ksagosen

I've used the Android version of this app for years, the new functionality here raises it to a new level and it's just a perfect live instrument for atmospheric music!

Mike

I watched a video on YouTube demonstrating it, and I was so impressed that I downloaded the app before the video had even finished.

pyx is

Wonderful intuitive ethereal instrument. So glad this came back to the app store. Excellent for background ambience as well as haunting melodic bits. Choose your key and jump in.

Guilhaume CAPMAL

Thank you so much for updating this fantastic musical instrument that I loved and was still using on stage via the old APK! The new features are great! We finally have visual feedback when selecting settings, and the new Monks sound, in particular, is very inspiring! It's wonderful that you stayed true to the philosophy of the original version.

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