EtherpadNo 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, on one iPad. 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.
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.
Hear it. See it. Feel it.
What people are playing around the world.
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.
Terror
by Dinesh
Haunted Choir
by Dinesh
Midnight Bells
by Bard
Found one?
by YOU!
What players are saying.
Finger-painting with sound! I love this app, and so does my cat. Fun, customizable, simple or complex. 100% awesome.
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.
Magic. What more can I say?
The Best of sound for music brain 🎉 And new Digital Monk is awesome 😇
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!
Just like the old days. … Thanks for making this!
Cool synths. Quite good for jamming. Would love an option to load custom samples.
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.
I watched a video on YouTube demonstrating it, and I was so impressed that I downloaded the app before the video had even finished.
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.
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.
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.
Made with love, for the love of music.
Come build the instrument with us.