LAP-SYN

A playing instrument modelled on the lap steel guitar. Please hold the phone in landscape orientation. Adding it to the home screen and launching it as a web app is recommended.

https://lap-syn.netlify.app

Controls

To begin: Turn the phone sideways. Drag up and down across the strings to sound them, and sideways on the scale at the left to bend the pitch.
The rows of strings: Drag up or down and the strings you cross sound in turn. The left column speaks softly, the right column sharply.
The scale on the left: This is the position of the slide bar. It moves to wherever you touch, and dragging left or right bends the pitch continuously. Lifting your finger damps the sound.
The right edge: Damps all the strings while you touch it.
M1 to m3: Chord pads, towards the right of the screen. Which side you touch changes how they speak. They appear in C6 tuning only.
MENU: Tuning (C6 / E7 / A6 / G6 / D), arpeggio shape (UP / DOWN / UPDN / RAND), eleven voices, and three knobs specific to each voice.
OCT: Raises everything by an octave.
RV / DL / DT / FB / COMP / ARP: Reverb, delay, detune, feedback, compression and arpeggio. Drag each one sideways to set the amount.

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