Designed to be simple yet powerful, SKnote HandSynth is a new performance synthesizer app for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, offering deep algorithms, filters, full control over sounds, internal effects, and more.

HandSynth boasts easy-to-use, performance-oriented controls. Using the app's four main controls, you can set sounds and envelopes; detune and harmonize the double oscillator; further shape sounds with filters, resonance, and internal saturation; set two types of lowpass filters for classic squelchy synth sounds; choose vowel filters (male or female) for voice-like effects; and play around with the app's effects.

Internal effects include Chorus, with mono or stereo modes for ultra-wide sound; Drive, with two modes (A: soft, B: hard) for an aggressive sound; and Delay, with feedback filter useful for ambience or echo effects, with mono and stereo (ping-pong) modes.

In addition, the HandSynth app offers 30 oscillator algorithms, 100 slots for sound programs, and multitouch, continuous keyboard control.

HandSynth keeps everything in internal memory and makes your sounds ready upon startup, just as you left it. You can edit presets for a fully customized sound library, match output level from one preset to another, and transfer presets and sounds to and from a computer.

SKnote HandSynth features:

• A performance synthesizer with a simple interface and several complex oscillators and filters
• A multitouch keyboard provides direct control over the sound
• Theremin mode adds real-time modulation possibilities
• 30 Oscillator modes, from classical shapes to frequency modulation and more
• Includes lowpass filters with resonance and drive for classic squelchy synth sounds
• Includes 2 vowel filters for voice-like effects
• Internal effects include multimode drive, mono and stereo chorus, and mono and stereo delay
• 100 Slots for presets
• Sound libraries can be transferred to and from the computer for infinite sound possibilities
• Compatible with Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad
• Requires iOS 3.2 or higher

HandSynth is now available from the iTunes App Store for $5.99. To learn more about the new app, please visit the SKnote Web site at sknote.it.