Learn synths by making sounds.
PatchPond is a worn-steel patchbay holding a pool of sounds. Five outcome tracks — Bass, Pluck, Pad, Lead, Arp — each producing a sound a musician would actually keep.
Knobs are explained by ear, over a looping musical bed, not by manual. The order through the tracks teaches the whole subtractive chain: oscillators, envelopes, filter, modulation, effects, arpeggiator.
Web studio for desk practice. iOS app for the bus. Same patches, both directions.
The PatchPond studio is online at /studio/. Web MIDI in, on-screen keyboard otherwise. Patches save locally and load back into iOS once the beta lands. Same patch format, same curriculum, both directions.
Open the studio, pick a lesson from the BS, PK, PD, LD, or AR track, and start by ear over the bed.
Open studio →The PatchPond curriculum lives at /learn/. Five outcome tracks (Bass, Pluck, Pad, Lead, Arp), each ending in an exportable loop. The concept glossary defines the 15 atomic ideas the lessons build on; the waveform catalog covers the six oscillator shapes a subtractive synth starts from.
The iOS build goes out on TestFlight. Leave an email and which device you want, and you'll get an invite when the first build lands. No newsletter. No tracking pixel. One mail, one invite.