The best part of the app, imho, is the cumulative challenges. and telling a saw from a square with different filters applied is tricky too. Setting a delay (because I do it a lot for guitars) is pretty easy, but adjusting synth only parameters like the filter cutoff and envelope are trickier. The filter cutoff and envelope tend to be two of the items I have the hardest time setting. Another interesting find is how a saw and narrow pulse sound similar. Ok, no big deal, but it's interesting to see that as I try to match these, I have trouble telling them apart. In order to have those first sounds stronger without having the later sounds audible, you shorten the feedback setting. If the sound of the item fades beyond audible, then the real difference is in the volume of the first delay sounds. So, in the example of the delay setting, I learned that I'm most likely to trade Feedback and Mix Volume.

After you do your best to make your sound match the challenge sound, you click submit and it shows you which parameters you set correctly and gives you the opportunity to go back and try some more. For example, you get a sound and you have to match the delay in time, mix volume, feedback and stereo spread. Next, it challenges you to match 5-6 sounds using the parameters from the lesson. Next, it opens the synth so you can play with it. The way the app works, it gives you a short video talking about a set of parameters. Syntorial comes with a Synth that you could use in Sonar if you want, but it's not on par with the other producer synths. I like to play with Synths myself, although it isn't how I spend most of my time. So, I bought it yesterday and I've completed 38 of the 203 lessons so far.

There's a $30 discount through the store. So, Syntorial is this new thing you can get through the Cakewalk Store to try to learn to program synths better. SynthTronica takes full advantage of iPad's multitouch capabilities and delivers a powerful, clever and flexible way to make music.Things I've found interesting in Syntorial SynthTronica is the unique and revolutionary synthesizer for iPad. 'Synthtronica really is a marvelous technical achievement.' 'SynthTronica takes you to places that other iPad synths don't and is well worth getting your hands on.' Computer Music magazine 'Possibly the best iPad synthesizer.' 9 to 5 Mac

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