What people usually ask

A modular music studio that runs entirely in the browser. You build your rack with the instruments you need —synths, sequencers, drums, sampler, amps, vocals—, each one in its own window like a plugin; you record them in the multitrack, which sits at the centre of the screen, and with the Tab key you switch to a proper mixer to mix them and, if you play live, add visuals that react to the sound.

No. It opens in the browser and that's it: no installer, no plugins, no developer account. Once it has loaded it keeps working offline, so you can work on a train or in a rehearsal room with no wifi.

Yes, there's a real Free plan, not a demo with a countdown: almost all the modules, amps and vocals included, the multitrack, the mixer, saving projects and publishing takes. Below you'll find exactly what separates Free from Pro.

With the guided tutorial: every module has its own, with voice-over, and it points at each control as it talks about it. It's behind the ? button in the module's header, and in the Help menu you'll find the welcome tutorial and the tutorials on how to work in the multitrack, the mixer and the control bar. Start with BEAT (the rhythm) and BASS (the bass line); with those two you already have a foundation.

If you'd rather watch it on video first, SYNZ Academy has the whole course by section; the first one, “Start here”, takes you from the interface to your first loop.

Almost everything: 19 modules (synths, sequencers, drums, sampler, the guitar and bass amps and Vocals with autotune), the multitrack with unlimited tracks and its MIDI editor, the mixer with EQ, sends and master, recording your whole performance (Take mode), saving projects, five takes you can publish to the community, your phone as an instrument and controller, and working offline.

€9 a month. Everything in Free, plus: multitrack recording (each instrument on its own track), export to WAV and MP3, the mixer inserts, the amps' pedalboard and the Keys Mood, Strings, Harmonium, Visuals, Mapping and Modular modules. Every new module that comes out is added to your Pro at no extra cost.

Yes, from your account, with no calls and no forms. When you cancel you don't lose anything you made: your projects are still yours and open just the same; what gets locked are the Pro modules and features.

It deliberately uses a wide audio buffer: it prefers a few extra milliseconds of delay over a click when the processor is under pressure. The graphics —needles, VU meters, waveforms— slow down on their own if the system is running late, to leave room for the sound. The recorders don't exist until you record. And for playing with a mic or an instrument, the amps and vocals run on a separate engine with the buffer at its minimum, with the real delay measured on your machine in plain sight.

The multitrack is where the song is put together: each instrument on its own track, to cut, move and mix. It's the default recording mode. A take is 30 seconds of a real performance, unedited, to publish to the community: the end of the road, not the place where you work.

In the .synz project file, which you save wherever you like. Everything goes in there, including the audio recorded in the multitrack.

Separately there's an emergency autosave (what you get back with “Recover last session”), and this one lives inside the browser you're using, not in the cloud: if you open SYNZ in another browser or on another computer, there'll be nothing there to recover. To take your session from one place to another, save the .synz.

Yes, to WAV or MP3 from the multitrack, with the master exactly as you hear it. It's a Pro feature; the 30-second take is free on any plan.

The guitar and bass amps and the vocal channel run on a separate engine with the buffer at its minimum, so you hear yourself instantly —and on vocals, already in tune if you have autotune on—. In the amp's header you'll see the real milliseconds measured on your machine, not a made-up number. If your machine can't handle that mode, SYNZ tells you and goes back to the stable mode instead of breaking up.

With the computer keyboard or a MIDI keyboard playing a synth, the delay is that of the general buffer, which is deliberately wider. It's next on the list.

It shouldn't: when recording, the output latency your machine reports is subtracted, and there's a fine adjustment (“Lat MIDI”) for whatever the hardware doesn't declare. If it still comes out shifted, write to us with the example: it's a bug and we want to see it.

Yes. You plug it in and it plays whichever module you have selected, not a fixed one. You can also map MIDI controls to the rack's controls to work them with your wheels and knobs.

The computer keyboard plays. Every instrument —the bass included— responds to the keys when you have it selected, and the key map can be changed.

As a remote instrument for the studio, over the same network: a continuous ribbon, chord pads, effects, mixer, an XY pad and the transport. It's the way to play standing up, without being in front of the laptop.

Yes, once it has loaded. What needs the internet is signing in to your account, publishing takes and browsing the community.

Thirty seconds of a real performance, unedited. You record it by playing, pick the section by dragging a 30 s window over the waveform, give it a title and a cover, and publish it. The point is what was played, not what was produced.

Five on the Free plan, three of them featured on your profile. With Pro, no limit.

If whoever published it shares their session, yes: it opens in your Studio and you can keep playing on top of it. It's the part of SYNZ TAKES we like most.