Etherpad

Etherpad — Music, at your fingertips

Play ethereal music with your own touch. Every touch is its own voice — slide, hold, lift… the music follows your gesture in real time.

iOS / iPadOS Mac Android
about

No keys. No rules. Just touch.

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.

Ten voices

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. You can't play a wrong note.

Everywhere

iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android. Even inside Logic and AUM.

under the hood

A real synthesizer. Not samples.

Every note is synthesized live by Csound — the legendary audio engine trusted by composers for four decades. Nine voices, born the moment you touch.

  • Ether Padwarm, weightless
  • Distorted Dreamsbeautifully broken
  • Xanpalaminfrom another planet
  • Soft Trianglepure and simple
  • Digital Monka choir of one
  • Morphwavealways becoming
  • PWM Padanalog heartbeat
  • Glass Choirlight through crystal
  • 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.

Open engine, open heart: see how the engine sings.

watch

Hear it. See it. Feel it.

Shared by players around the world.

Split mode on iPad — two surfaces, one player
Etherpad ~ The Mystical Sound
The original Etherpad, played by its creator — Paul Batchelor
Ethereal pads in GarageBand with Etherpad (AUv3)
Jade Starr Music experimenting with the synth
reviews

What players are saying.

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.
Guilhaume CAPMALGoogle Play
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.
pyx isGoogle Play
The Best of sound for music brain 🎉 And new Digital Monk is awesome 😇
MacPaw GibsonGoogle Play
Just like the old days. … Thanks for making this!
Mr. EvadingGoogle Play
Cool synths. Quite good for jamming. Would love an option to load custom samples.
A Google Play userGoogle Play
community

Made something beautiful? Let the world hear it.

Share your creation

This site exists so people across the world can share what they make with Etherpad. Send us a recording — just an email, nothing else. We listen to every one, and the loveliest live here.

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The stage is set. Your recording could be the first.
developers

Made with love, for the love of music.

Paul Batchelor

Paul Batchelor

He teaches computers how to sing. Dreamed up Etherpad and built the very first version.

PaulBatchelor
Dinesh Yadav

Dinesh Yadav

Rebuilt Etherpad for modern devices and new platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Android.

HumbleBee14

Etherpad is open source. Come build the instrument with us.

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