App Profile: Syrinscape Fantasy Player

tjgavlick

Rating: 2/5

It’s easy to tell this app has … seniority, to use a polite term. It faithfully recreates the look, feel, and functions of the web version, bringing the powerful sound triggering and mixing and editing capabilities to my phone. My soundsets and campaigns are synced well, and it’s impressive how much flexibility is packed into this small form factor. But in the end, I can’t use it. Whatever system APIs they had to contort and bend to make all of this sound engineering go are either not modern or not standard. Sound does not persist in the background; pulling down my control center or locking the screen unceremoniously cuts off whatever is playing. More crucially, sound is not routed in such a way to let iOS know anything is actually playing, meaning I can’t AirPlay my soundscapes to my TV / sound system, or cast them to my DM’s chromecast, or punt them over to a bluetooth speaker. And there’s no Apple TV app on offer, so in the end there’s no way to get these lovely noises to my speakers. While running this system on a phone is impressive and neat, actually using it in a real world setting is not something I can do right now.

Celeb0rnz

Rating: 2/5

Why can’t the audio continue to play when i switch apps.

jkalish

Rating: 3/5

Some fun atmosphere for games. Hard to navigate, and the app does not save my customized soundscapes.