Syrinscape: Tabletop RPG Sound

Syrinscape

About this app

Syrinscape creates immersive sound design and a movie-like Soundtrack for tabletop games.

For Android Tablets and phones!

Syrinscape will transform your next role-playing or tabletop gaming session. Syrinscape is a revolutionary sound design app created in Australia by tabletop role-playing aficionados. The app conjures every aural landscape imaginable, from ethereal forests or dank, vermin-filled dungeons to the spooky depths of the underworld. Try it out for FREE and then Register at www.syrinscape.com to buy more content.

Unlike other soundboard-style apps, Syrinscape uses editable and adaptable libraries of sound files – SoundSets – to 'improvise' soundscapes, allowing users a great degree of control over what they are hearing, while requiring almost no interaction while the app runs.

The Syrinscape Fantasy Player app is optimized for Android Tablets, giving users the ability to playback Syrinscape SoundSets with a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. The Syrinscape Fantasy Player comes with two free SoundSets ready to download, then you can purchase additional SoundSets as you need. All the fantasy SoundSets you buy from the Google Play Store or the Syrinscape Store will be available across all devices you own, so you can pick up whichever device is to hand and immerse yourself in whatever sound world you desire.

Ratings and reviews

Overall this works fine, and I like the ability to use it from my phone to a Bluetooth speaker I have in my table. That said, having to leave my phone on and unlocked, and not being able to switch apps, is rather unacceptable in 2024. If I need to look up something for the game, the audio stops, until I return to the app. The UI is okay, but I wish it would open to a default I set instead of whatever's first I'm the list (currently Vecna, which I have no use for).

I've been using this program for ten years - amazing variety and control over your sound effects and music. No ads, new sound sets monthly, with lots of one-shot sounds to add surprise to an encounter. Sounds can be added, dropped, or changed with a click. Marvelous at the gaming table, it's also great for just listening to something interesting or calming when reading, writing, doing things around the house, or working out. (Ever gone for a run when it sounds like a dragon is chasing you?!)

Great in a lot of ways, but hard to actually use in your game, since it means you can't get any text messages or look up anything on your phone. I do appreciate the fact that the sounds are layered and complex, allowing fine-tuning with any particular that you desire, while also having really good defaults.

What’s new

No longer require SoundSets to be manually installed, required sounds will be downloaded on demand.
"Download Everything" setting. Downloads ALL SoundSets automatically.
Add Now Playing auto campaign, that is populated with SoundSets that have some playing Elements.
Do not adjust element volume while scrolling.
Respect screen safe areas.
Allow 8 (up from 2) overlapping instances of the same sample.
Upgraded to Unity 2022.3.15f1 (latest LTS).