Features
Synchestra allows you to rehearse and play in the best possible conditions. With a wide variety of customizable settings, you will enjoy the best quality of the sound as well as the comfort of playing with an app which can adapt to your needs.
Audio you won’t find elsewhere
All music is rendered thanks to the best audio libraries, combined with our innovative technology that allows a fantastic experience at any tempo.
You can mute/unmute any solo or individual or group of orchestra instruments. That means you can have different roles in the composition: for example, as a violinist, you could play the solo part of the violin concerto, but also the Violin I or Violin II part, and even choose between the different divisi sections. As a horn player, you can choose which part (e.g. from 1 to 4) you wish to play.
You can change the individual volume settings per individual instrument (e.g. , Violin solo, or Oboe 2), or instrument group (e.g. the four Horns) or instrument section (e.g. the Woodwinds). In 2026, you can even add a volume envelope to each instrument or group of instruments.
When you play, ask a friend to adapt the tempo of the orchestra tapping the tempo on a touch screen. You can also use an external midi controller to change the tempo while you play.
When you set the orchestra as the follower (and you are in the lead), it will listen to you and join back in when you finish a solo musical sentence, your cadenza, or get a cue when to join back in after a fermata. This feature will be available in fall 2026.
Each work comes with a default "tempo map", that outlines the overall tempo changes through the composition. You can customize it by adapting the overall tempo (for example: "play everything 10% slower") or just a segment of the work (for example: "play that difficult section at 80 bpm, even it is written at 100 bpm").
In the app, you can choose your listening spot:
- as a member of the audience; you hear what the audience hears when listening in the best seats;
- as (one of the) the soloist(s);
- as the conductor;
- as a member of the orchestra. For example, if you are an oboist, you can choose to play the Oboe I part. You are looking at the conductor, therefore the Flute II will be sounding at your right, Flute I a bit further to your right; Oboe II will be sounding to your left, then the Clarinets, then the Bassoons; Violins II are sitting before you, and the Horns are behind you. You hear the instruments around you very well, those far way (like the Double Basses) will be less audible. (You will need an audio system with more than two speakers to get this effect.)
You can transpose the music up or down by up to 5 half tones, for example when your voice is not in good shape and you want to sing higher or lower; or when you are playing a concerto in A on a B flat instrument, because you don’t own an instrument in A.
You can tune the orchestra to 415, 440, 442 Hz, or whatever other tuning, for example when playing a church organ with changing pitch depending on the church temperature.
Record your rehearsal with the orchestra.
Scores you won’t find elsewhere
Synchestra is absolutely unique in bringing you the conductor scores for your work. Now you can really see the musical dialogue between your instrument and the full orchestra!
When you buy a work, you get access to the instrument parts of not only the solo instrument(s), but of all the orchestra instruments as well.
The layout is fully responsive and makes it effortless to play on any type of screen. You can zoom in/out to accommodate to the distance from your electronic device, and your personal preferences. Furthermore, the user experience is optimized by an auto-scroll feature avoiding the need for manual page turns.
Our scores contain the rehearsal points that you can find in printed versions of other music editors (like A, B, C, ..., AA, BB, CC, ...).
The app can display different windows with different scores simultaneously, on the same or on different monitors. For example: your laptop of desktop monitor shows the conductor score, and your tablet on your music stand shows your instrument part. That way, the laptop/desktop screen shows you the visual cues that, in real life, would come from the conductor.
The conductor score can be printed and is optimized for standard paper formats (A4/Letter; for very complex scores we use A3/Legal format). However, your annotations will not be visible. This feature will be available in fall 2026.
Each instrument part can be printed on standard A4/Letter format. The layout is adapted to make it "music-friendly" to play from paper scores. For example, page breaks are preferably inserted where the musician has at least one hand free. However, your annotations will not be visible. This feature will be available in fall 2026.
A study experience you won’t find elsewhere
You can also add your own custom rehearsal points (like "the second bar before rehearsal point D", or "bar 247".
This allows you to repeat a certain part of the work you wish to study. Set locators anywhere you want on the score (not necessarily at start/end of a bar). For example: if the musical sentence contains an upbeat, the upbeat can be included as well in the loop. The app remembers the different loop sections that you create; you could start your daily practice going first through your difficult loops to practice them intensively, before enjoying the complete work movement.
You can select a specific change of speed for a specific looped section of the work (for example, to exercise a difficult section).
You can skip a range that you specify; for example if you have a multi-bar rest from bar 41 through 79, you can decide to skip from bar 41 until 77.
For keyboard instruments, you can exercise hands separately, while the app plays the other hand. Organists can as well exercise the pedal part separately, or in combination with only one hand.
All the classic features
Of course you will be able to use all the classic features any musical interface would offer. Check out a few of them in the video.
