Mazetools Soniface

Ectoplastic UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

About this app

Key Features
- Creative space to explore sound, music and geometric visuals
- Experiment with audio and visual objects and create your own scenes
- Operate controllers and play instruments via multitouch
- Motion interface to control instruments and parameters through gestures, movements and dance
- Cross-platform compatibility of project files
- Simple design for mobile devices, complex (regular) design for tablets and desktops
- Advanced in-app guide, FAQ & help function in English and German

Instruments
- Gridsynth - A generative, visual synthesizer for drones and melodies incl. sequencer & arpeggiator
- Rhythm sequencer for sample- and synth-based basses and drums
- Spatial & granular soundscape sampler incl. mic input, sample library and file integration
- Key interface for cross-instrument tonality incl. progression sequencer
- Interactive LivePad and keyboard for Gridsynth, Bass & Sampler

Automation & Connectivity
- Advanced controller automation incl. multi-touch editor, body tracking interface
- MIDI input and output
- Master FX and Ableton Link
- Normal mouse and keyboard support

Soniface is a digital space for the creative moment, an instrument, tool and through its peculiarities a work of art in itself. The app is very different from other music apps and tools. In this way it is new and open to all, whether beginners or experts.

Take some time, see for yourself and explore the instruments and presets, the controllers and visuals. Try, celebrate, fail, everything is possible in the musical process. Experimenting with sound without forcing results provides slowing down, balance and exchange.

Mazetools Soniface is free worldwide and without advertising. You can support our work, our vision and all Soniface users by purchasing Soniface Pro. In return you will receive in addition:

Soniface Pro
- Unlimited instruments (Mazes)
- Pattern mode to create unlimited scenes with different instruments and settings for songs and performances
- Visual mode with 1-3 live video outputs for performance & VJing
- Unlimited internal audio recording (.wav, up to 7.1 on desktop).

Information
We do our best to avoid bugs, often enough they drive us crazy. But after the update before the next. So feel free to write us bugs and problems, definitely also if you made a song or video.

Soniface needs access to the camera for motion tracking, the microphone for audio recording, the local files to save projects and recordings, and the network for Ableton Link.

Much more content, terms of use, credits and FAQ are in the app's guide and can be found in the app's start-up menu.

About Mazetools
Empowering creativity, democratizing musical expression and making it inclusive - how does that work? These are the questions that keep us busy. Soniface is a first step in the process. But we want to go further - with you and the community.

We are Stephan Kloß and Jakob Gruhl, Ectoplastic from Halle/Leipzig, we first met in 1999 as teenagers to make hip hop and electronic music. Since then we are fascinated by music software and sharing our enthusiasm for it with people.

More than 10 years ago we started the Maze project - a software core of instruments and multimedia interfaces. Since then we have been dedicated to audiovisual connections, sound through movement and spatial audio. Through exchanges, sessions, research and development, and public funding, Maze became Mazetools.

Our roadmap follows the goal of improving workflow, experience, energy consumption, and new features of our previous mapping tools Mutant and Soniface. We are always open to ideas and constructive feedback. In 2024, we have two new releases coming up, Mazetools Botany and Modyssey VR. We have developed these over the last three years. To make it all work, we need your support!

We wish you a great time with Soniface,
Your Mazetools Team, Stephan & Jakob

Ratings and reviews

I really want to like this synth but the user interface is unintuitive and infuriating. The font is hard to read to begin with but the font is also needlessly tiny and there's no indication it can be changed. The "help" tips are unhelpful and vauge at best. The UI is so out of the way it's hard to tell what's going on much of the time. Don't get this unless you're already somehow an expert of this particular synth layout.

I love how easy their "mutant" app is, so I have been dabbling on and off with soniface. So much power under the hood and a steep learning curve - for me. Will persevere and buy the peo version. Love these developers and want to be part of their success, by paying for their amazing work. I did not give 5⭐ because it is too complex and could be made simpler to achieve musical outcomes. Start with Mutant, by these guys

As at least one other reviewer here as said, the app is too small, microscopic, as he or she said, which makes it very fiddly and difficult to use. Found it effectively unusable on my 5" smartphone for this reason, but many functions do not seem to work anyway. Might have more success in using this app on a larger screen tablet as the app images are so small. Regards, Brent Collins.

What’s new

- New Automation Interface: Maze Connect
- Improved Controller view for automation and loop recording function
- New Trigger Env Controller within the Sampler Effects
- Improved Maze Modules Hub: Switch directly between Mazes and active Modules, get directly to the automation list of each module
- Rename function for Patterns and Mazes
- Improved Simple Design Navigation
- Bug fixes & performance improvements- Improved Rotation Visual