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SynScape

A New Way to Make Music.

Shape movement and hear melodies, rhythms, and harmonies take form. Stay in flow and discover ideas you would not have written on your own.

  • macOS & Windows
  • MIDI Out & Clock Sync
  • Works with Your DAW
Synscape visual music instrument with polygon, pendulum, orbit and piston motion patterns playing across four canvases

Making music should feel like discovery.

For many musicians, composing begins with an empty timeline, familiar habits, and the pressure to sound original. Synscape offers a different beginning—one shaped by movement and curiosity. Every project becomes an exploration. Every pattern becomes a performance.

Creative Flow

Instead of facing an empty piano roll, you begin with movement and let ideas arrive on their own.

Original Ideas

Discover melodies, harmonies, and rhythms you might never have found any other way.

Stay in Control

Synscape never composes for you. It offers possibilities; every decision stays yours.

Synscape interface with pattern parameters open beside a green pendulum trail and blue orbit motion

Meet Synscape

Synscape is a visual music instrument where movement becomes composition.

Its name comes from synesthesia—the quiet connection between sound, colour, shape and movement. You don’t need to experience it to play Synscape. The instrument simply invites you to see music differently.

It doesn’t compose for you. It gives you a new way to compose.

Movement becomes music

Shape motion and hear musical ideas take shape in real time.

Shape the result

Guide scales, notes, timing, instruments, dynamics, and more.

Take it further

Record your performance, or carry the MIDI into your favorite DAW.

How It Works

Instead of programming every note on a piano roll, you shape movement and hear it become music in real time. Sometimes your ears guide your eyes. Sometimes your eyes guide your ears.

  1. 01

    Create Movement

    Build visual systems using motion patterns.

  2. 02

    Discover Music

    Listen as movement turns into melodies, harmonies and rhythms.

  3. 03

    Shape Your Composition

    Guide the result using instruments, scales, note sets, timing and musical controls.

  4. 04

    Export Anywhere

    Record audio or export MIDI to continue inside your favorite DAW.

See Synscape in Motion

The fastest way to understand Synscape is to see it creating music.

Features

Everything you need to turn movement into music composition — and to take it wherever your production goes next.

Close-up of Synscape polygon, pendulum, orbit and piston patterns generating musical events as they move

Visual music instrument

Composition you can see

Patterns move across the canvas, and every crossing, collision and orbit becomes a musical event you can hear the moment it happens. You watch the music as much as you listen to it.

  • Movement-based composition
  • Music that unfolds in real time
  • A calm, focused interface
Nine different Synscape motion systems including cellular automata, mandala, flocking, DNA helix and tree growth

Multiple motion systems

Fifteen ways to move

Polygons, pendulums, orbits, spirals, flocking, cellular automata, DNA helixes, tree growth and more. Layer up to twelve motion systems and let them play together.

  • Fifteen pattern types
  • Layer patterns per channel
  • Independent musical behaviour
Synscape musical panel with instrument, root, scale, note set, velocity, probability and note length controls

Musical control

Scales, note sets and instruments

Keep everything in key. Choose scales and note sets, assign custom instruments per channel, and shape timing, velocity, probability and note length until the music is unmistakably yours.

  • Musical scales and note sets
  • Custom instruments per channel
  • Timing, velocity and probability
Synscape channel list with per-pattern MIDI channels alongside the global, MIDI and instrument settings

MIDI and audio

Straight into your DAW

Record audio, video and MIDI files, or send MIDI live directly into your favourite DAW for arranging, producing and mixing.

  • MIDI export and MIDI out
  • Audio and video recording
  • DAW integration

Who is it for?

Synscape suits anyone looking for a different way to begin a piece of music.

  • Music Producers

    Step outside familiar habits with ideas you did not plan.

  • Composers

    Sketch motifs and harmonic ideas before touching a score.

  • Ambient Artists

    Build slow, evolving textures that never repeat exactly.

  • Electronic Musicians

    Shape rhythmic patterns and sequences that stay musical.

  • Sound Designers

    Play your own instruments with motion that surprises but obeys.

  • Beginners

    Create music with no musical background required.

  • Educators

    Show scales, rhythm and harmony as something visible and moving.

  • Meditation Creators

    Compose calm, continuous soundscapes for long-form listening.

Pricing

Try everything for 30 days. Keep it for life.

30-Day Free Trial

Everything included.

  • Access every feature
  • Audio, video and MIDI recording
Download Free Trial

Early Access

Limited Time

Lifetime access to Synscape.

$39.90$19.90

Early Access price

  • Lifetime license
  • Free updates
  • Everything in the trial, permanently
Buy Early Access — $19.90

Frequently asked questions

See Music. Shape Sound.

Ready to Discover a New Way to Make Music?