Real components, real physics
Resistors, capacitors, transistors, and op-amps simulated with the same math that runs inside a real pedal — live, at audio rate, on your phone.
Every level is a genuine synth or pedal circuit, simulated live. Move the faders, watch the trace, and listen your way to the target sound. No electronics knowledge needed — the game trains your ears as you play.
A target tone plays on the scope in gold. Your circuit sings in cyan. Every fader is a real component — a filter cutoff, a fuzz bias, a resonance — and the sweet spot is somewhere in between. Find it and the traces lock.
Resistors, capacitors, transistors, and op-amps simulated with the same math that runs inside a real pedal — live, at audio rate, on your phone.
Open the circuit behind any puzzle, pinch around the board, and tap any part to learn what it does. You'll leave knowing how a synth works.
Every circuit you beat becomes an instrument — a free-play keyboard and a pocket-operator-style step sequencer are one tap away.
The Circuit Editor wires the way you'd point: tap a pin, tap a gold target, and the parts connect — you hear the circuit live as you build. Share anything you make; friends play it free.
ONE-TIME PURCHASEImport a MIDI song and the generator turns it into a songbook of playable levels built on your circuits.
ONE-TIME PURCHASEYour creations run as an AUv3 audio effect inside GarageBand, Logic, and any other AUv3 host.
ONE-TIME PURCHASE
No ads. No tracking. No accounts. The whole game works offline, and your progress syncs privately between your iPhone and iPad through iCloud. Read the two-minute privacy policy.
Act I closes with a two-transistor fuzz you tune entirely by ear. Nine more acts take you through tone stacks, wah tanks, op-amp filters, and vintage germanium — then five Encore acts of real repertoire: ragtime, nocturnes, toccatas. Public-domain music, wired into circuits you tune your way through.
Circuit Piano is free on the App Store.
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