

He was inspired to make Syntorial based on his struggles of learning musical synthesis: DevelopmentĪ 2003 graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Joe Hanley had been a professional musician for 17 years, a teacher for nine years, and a composer for six years before he began work on Syntorial.
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Syntorial uses controls and features that are the most common in many synthesizers, including subtractive synthesis, three oscillators, saw, pulse, triangle and sine waves, an FM parameter, noise oscillator, oscillator sync, band-pass filter with resonance and key tracking, ADSR envelopes, an AD modulation envelope, LFO, monophonic and polyphonic voice modes, portamento, unison with voice, detune and spread controls, ring modulation, distortion, chorus, phaser, delay, reverb, mod wheel, pitch wheel and velocity. Once the user finishes all the lessons, he/she will have programmed 706 patches. A total of 39 quizzes are included in-between lessons.
As the user progresses, more controls are added in each topic. Once the user corrects the mistakes, they can try the challenge again or move on to the next lesson. After the user is done programming the sound, they will submit the patch to the program, with the user shown what controls they used correctly and what controls they used incorrectly. Each lesson starts with a video lecture teaching a control or a group of controls, followed by a challenge a patch is heard, but the user is not shown how the patch is programmed, so that they can try to program the patch to sound like the hidden patch.

Syntorial includes a total of 199 lessons and 129 interactive challenges, where the user programs sounds using a built-in synth called Primer.
