SyntoniaRituals is a tactile musical space for iPhone and iPad: play responsive singing bowls, shape their character, arrange evolving sequences, and let sound become movement and light.
It is made for slow listening and small gestures. Strike a bowl. Trace its rim. Leave a moment of silence. Build a ritual and allow it to unfold.
An instrument shaped around you
Begin with a focused Free experience. Expand your collection and creative range with a one-time Pro purchase, whenever you are ready.
Bowls with a living voice
Discover the warmth of bronze, the clarity of quartz crystal, and the character of brass, copper, steel, aluminium, glass and ceramic. Material-inspired synthesis brings shifting overtones, gentle beating and naturally fading resonance to every bowl.
Free
Bronze Reverie and Ceramic Earth.
Pro
All eight material presets.
Expression at your fingertips
Strike, circle and pinch to shape sound as you play. The interactive rim-pad follows your circular speed; optional position controls vary strike strength and rubbing pressure. Choose Resonant, Aurora, Kinetic or Minimal visuals to accompany each gesture.
Free & Pro
Touch expression and all four rim visual styles.
Your own space to play
Build a personal arrangement of resonant voices, each with its own pitch, colour and character. Play by hand while a Ritual unfolds, adding a spontaneous response to the sequence.
Free
One playable Live Rig bowl.
Pro
Layer up to four Live Rig bowls.
Comfort for either hand
Place your instruments where they feel most natural. Swap the Live Rig and sequencer sides in landscape, or bring the bowls closer by placing the Live Rig at the bottom in portrait.
Free & Pro
Both layout options, for left- or right-handed playing.
Apple Pencil expression
On a compatible iPad, a pressure-sensitive Pencil adds nuance to strike brightness and rubbing. Pro lets you assign supported pressure, tilt, direction, rotation, hover and squeeze inputs to expressive sound controls. Available gestures depend on your iPad and Pencil model.
Free
Pencil playing with the default pressure response.
Pro
Advanced Mapping with adjustable sensitivity.
Compose your own Rituals
Arrange single or repeating strikes, continuous rubbing and silence. Choose each step’s duration, bowl and frequency, then let tones fade naturally, dampen or overlap as the sequence progresses.
Free
An editable Default Ritual with up to five steps.
Pro
Named Rituals with up to 64 steps each.
Shape every resonance
Move from a gentle change of character to detailed sound design. Explore strike attack, brightness, overtones, beating, drift and rim friction, or introduce the shifting colour of a fluid-filled bowl.
Free
Character, Bloom and Motion controls, plus six voicings.
Pro
Full sound editing, fluid simulations and saved personal bowls.
Space, echoes, atmosphere
Give each gesture room to linger. The built-in stereo FX stack combines natural-sounding reverb and delay, with adjustable room size, decay, damping, echo time, feedback and tone.
Free & Pro
The complete reverb and delay controls, with remembered settings.
Frequencies with context
Explore five curated categories: Astronomical Cycles, Solfeggio, Astrology, Tuning Forks and 12-TET Tuning (A440). Informative text accompanies every entry, offering musical, historical or cultural context for your listening choices.
Free
Browse every description and play six curated references.
Pro
Full selection, frequency readouts and custom presets.
See the sound unfold
Follow your music through luminous ribbons, unfolding geometry and flowing colour. Personalise palettes, motion, glow and audio response; Reduce Motion brings a calmer visual presentation.
Free
Harmonic Spectrum and Resonance Mandala.
Pro
All ten fullscreen visualizers.
SyntoniaRituals grows from the instrument-design and acoustic-synthesis work behind SyntoniaLive, with its own focus on expressive singing bowls, personal rituals and sound in motion. SyntoniaLive is coming to the App Store, come back checking soon!
Syntonia Virtual Instrument
A playable Live Rig
SyntoniaRituals Live Rig
A playable Live Rig with eight singing bowls on iPad for layered, resonant gestures.
The Free version begins with one singing bowl in the Live Rig; the permanent Pro unlock expands the surface to as many as eight. Choose a pitch, colour and acoustic character for each bowl, then bring it to life with a touch.
Strike a bowl for an immediate resonant response.
Rub around its rim to let the sound gather and bloom.
Move between bowls while a Ritual continues to play.
Pinch to gently dampen a ringing bowl.
Every voice is synthesised in real time, responding to the movement of your hand with a changing blend of attack, overtones and resonance. A strike gives way to shifting overtones; a circular gesture lets the tone gather and sustain.
A Bowl's Focused View
A single bowl focused interactive view for maximum expression.
Shape a bowl of your own
Begin with one of eight material-inspired Singing Bowls and explore six voicings. Character, Bloom and Motion offer an immediate way to shape the sound, from a softer presence to a brighter, more animated resonance.
Free includes Bronze Reverie and Ceramic Earth, with sound adjustments you can keep in your Live Rig. Pro opens the complete material collection, detailed sound controls and fluid-filled bowl simulations, and lets you save a personal collection in the Library.
Explore the Frequency Catalogue for a new listening direction. Browse the stories and reference notes in either version, play the six curated Free choices, or unlock the complete catalogue and create custom references with Pro.
Bowl Editor
A complete sound design panel to shape each bowl’s tonal and physical characteristics.
Compose time, gesture, and silence
The Ritual sequencer turns a listening idea into an ordered performance. Each step can hold a duration and one of three actions:
Timed Strikes repeat a bowl at a chosen interval, or sound it once.
Continuous Rubbing sustains the gesture around the rim.
Silence gives resonance and attention room to settle.
Choose a bowl and frequency for each sounding step, adjust the timing and transitions, and drag steps into the order you want. Play, pause or move between steps, and add your own gestures in the Live Rig while the Ritual progresses. The Free version provides an editable Default Ritual with up to five steps. Pro extends a program to 64 steps and adds named Rituals with their own colour and notes.
Ritual Sequencer
Program your ritual with up to 64 timed steps, with access to the extensive frequency catalogue.
See the sound take form
Audio Visualisers
Observe the generated sound shaping up into configurable background, particles, fractals and more.
The fullscreen visualizer turns your playing into a changing field of light. Choose an atmosphere to match the moment:
Harmonic Spectrum and Resonance Mandala are included in the Free version. The permanent Pro unlock makes all ten visualizers selectable.
Harmonic Spectrum
Luminous ribbons reveal the changing balance of your sound, tracing low resonances and bright overtones as each bowl rings out.
Resonance Mandala
Layered rings unfold with each strike, drawing your listening into a calm centre of symmetry and light.
Harmonic Orbit
Glowing lines weave through loops and changing orbits, leaving delicate trails as the music evolves.
Flowing Light
Streams of light drift, curl and shimmer with your sound, like a current made visible.
Orbital Field
Luminous particles gather, circle and scatter, answering each new gesture with a gentle shift in motion.
Infinite Bloom
Intricate branches and flower-like forms unfold slowly, inviting you to follow the finer details of a sustained tone.
Luminous Ink
Translucent colour stretches and mingles like ink suspended in water, carrying each new sound into the next.
Fluid Dynamics
Broad currents fold luminous colour into flowing patterns, bringing a more energetic movement to your music.
Digital Marbling
Layered colours ripple and turn like marbled paper in motion, reshaped continuously by the sound.
Lava Lamp
Soft, glowing forms rise, drift and merge in a slow-moving play of colour and light.
Make the view your own with colour palettes, backgrounds, motion, glow and audio response, alongside controls suited to each visualizer. Your choices are remembered for the next session. With Reduce Motion enabled on your device, movement becomes gentler and visual activity more restrained.
Designed for listening and performance
Make room for quiet listening, sound exploration, creative work or an intimate performance. SyntoniaRituals invites you to follow the resonance, choose your own pace and leave space between gestures.
No account is required.
No microphone recording is used.
Your sounds, Rituals and preferences are stored locally, with no in-app cloud sync.
VoiceOver labels, adaptable text and Reduce Motion settings support a more comfortable experience.
Listen at a comfortable volume, especially during long sessions.
Librarian
Your organiser for bowl patches, rituals and frequencies.
Frequency Catalogue
An extensive factory list of curated frequency values taken from Physical, Cultural and Musical backgrounds is at your fingertips.
Frequency Catalogue
Frequency value cards with interesting derived sources and connections between physical phenomena observations, astrology, solfeggio and western music provenance.
Apple Pencil Support on iPad
SyntoniaRituals offers support for the Apple Pencil! You can tilt, press, rotate, yaw and configure each gesture to a specific bowl generator parameter for unsurpassed interactivity.
Advanced Mapping
Interact with the Live Rig using your Apple Pencil, so that every gesture interacts in real-time with the sound.
Complete support for all parameters depends on your iPad and Apple Pencil specific models.
Availability
The Free version is a complete playable experience; an optional one-time Pro purchase expands the instrument, Library, Ritual sequencer, and visualizer selection. There is no subscription.
