about
No keys. No rules. Just touch and feel.
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
Every touch sings on its own. Chords bloom under your hand.
Gesture is music
Slide for pitch. Drift for tone. Lift, and it fades like breath.
Always in key
Twelve scales, every key — or carve your own. You can't play a wrong note.
Everywhere
iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android. Even inside Logic and AUM.
Bring your own studio.
AUv3 plug-in
Runs as an instrument inside GarageBand, AUM, and Cubasis.
MIDI & MPE
Record every finger's pitch and tone into your DAW — and play it back. [Beta]
Split-screen mode
Two independent synths, side by side. Play a duet with yourself.
Record & share
Capture your performance as you play it, then share it with the world.
Jam tracks
Load your own songs and play over them. Loop them, layer them, mix them under your melody.
Tuning
Open the rack: reverb, delay, and saturation — shape the space your sound lives in.
Custom scales
Carve your own scales — two slots, any notes you choose, in the app and the plug-in.
under the hood
A real synthesizer : Sound Engine
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
- Distorted Dreamsbeautifully broken
- Oreliastruck gold, still singing
- Soft Trianglepure and simple
- Digital Monka choir of one
- Glass Choirlight through crystal
- PWM Padanalog heartbeat
- Morphwavealways becoming
- Xanpalaminfrom another planet
- 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.
Curious what's under the hood? See how the engine sings.
watch
Hear it. See it. Feel it.
What people are playing around the world.
tones
Tones people found.
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.
reviews
What players are saying.
5.0from reviews on App Store & Google Play
developers
Made with love, for the love of music.
contributors
Stefan HasselmannSound designCrafted four of Etherpad's voices — Nebula Drone, Crystal Rain, Deep Orbit and Quantum Pulse.
Wanna contribute?