Pegboard - Wavetable Synth

Semitune

In-app purchases

About this app

Pegboard is a mobile synth designed to make playing music more intuitive. The app is a full-featured mobile subtractive synthesizer with a virtual analog filter. Use it as a melody writing app, music scale finder, or just as a MIDI keyboard controller. How you use it is completely up to you.

The keyboard is arranged in a harmonic table layout. Scales you choose are highlighted for easy improvisation. Each chord has a simple shape that is the same in every key. This layout greatly simplifies playing chords, borrowing chords, and modulating between keys.

Music theory apps tend to impose constraints and can be uninspiring. Pegboard will give you an intuitive feel for harmony and allow you to come up with your own amazing riffs all through improvisation. Most of the app features are free. The synth is fully playable and programmable in the free version.

Included in the free version:
• Over 400 unique scales.
• 70 factory presets.
• 8-voice polyphony.
• 4 oscillators.
• 7 effect modules.
• 16-row modulation matrix.
• Unlimited use, no ads.

Included in the pro version:
• Unlimited saved presets.
• MIDI over USB.

The pro version is available as an in-app purchase. It will allow you to use the app as a MIDI controller. You can then connect the app to your DAW or another synthesizer.

Ratings and reviews

This is a really amazing synth and it's great to have a mobile isomorphic keyboard! My only gripe is that, as far as I can tell, this only has two notes of polyphony? I can't find a way to get more than that, and it's kinda frustrating... you give us all these cool pads and stabby synths and parameters and you just... can't play chords with them... :( Please add a setting for more voices of polyphony cause right now it might as well just be monophonic with a harmony gimmick

For something someone put up for free. You can't argue with that. However, I found most presets take anything from 5 to 20 seconds to start sounding/loading. Also, there appears to be a lack of sequencer (unless I'm mistaken). And many of the presets sounded too similar. It is difficu to tell if it actually generated initial source itself or is, as usual, actually sample based. I may try it thru a decent audio system to see if it can deliver punches, kicks, and pressure throbs to the body.

I was disappointed to find out that USB MIDI is only a PRO purchase. I thought perhaps other features would be limited like voices, etc. but at least have USB MIDI in the free version to let us try how it fits in workflows. I'd suggest the author change their market strategy perhaps with trial.

What’s new

• Fixed issue with coarse slider quantization.
• Fixed issue with status bar on some devices.
• Removed preset sync feature.
• Improved button interaction.
• Various other design changes.