App released on OSX Mac App Store: microsynth

May 10, 2012

While most software synthesizers give little or no control over tuning, I'm pleased to announce the release of a new app that's different than the rest. It's a microtonal SoundFont synthesizer simply called microsynth, now available on the OSX Mac App Store in two versions: 16-tracks multi-timbral, and single-track mono-timbral. This synthesizer gives you exactly the tuning control you need. Tuning features are the same in both versions. Some features include the following:

• unlimited tunings, any key to any pitch
• individual tuning per track
• supports MTS real-time Sysex messages
• supports .scl .tun .hz .csv .mtx .gly and .tonex tuning files
• supports single channel tuning tables of 128 tones
• supports OMNI-channel tuning tables of 2048 tones
• allows real time transposition and remapping of scales
• unlimited user-defined MIDI CC tuning switches and tuners
• supports pitch bending of microtonal pitches
• comes with GM/GS Soundset
• built in reverb
• loads .sf2 soundfonts
• unlimited MIDI connections
• one virtual MIDI input and output
• records wav audio files
• loads and saves scenes
• multiple Undo

Here's a look at the mini version:

The 16-track version can also send pitch-bend microtonal output to external devices. This is the first H-Pi Instruments app to be sold exclusively through the OSX Mac App Store. Want to know more before you buy? Check out the full documentation PDF.

Special thanks to John Reed for commissioning the initial version of microsynth and doing a lot of beta testing.

For now, microsynth is Mac-only, but send me a note if you're interested in a Windows version.

Thanks everyone, for your continued support!