Gesture Synth mobile: play on phone or tablet.

01 / BROWSER → TOUCH → SOUND

Start Gesture Synth mobile with touch

You can try Gesture Synth for free on a phone or tablet in the browser, without downloading an app or creating an account. Start with Play without camera. Touch and hold the playing area to sound a note, drag horizontally to change pitch, and move vertically to change brightness. Release your finger to end the note.

Touch lets you check sound and note control without camera permission or AI tracking. Try an ordinary Safari or Chrome tab on your device. Camera mode is an optional next experiment; its performance and browser capabilities need checking on that device.

1. Open the instrument in a normal browser tab

   Open Gesture Synth. Use your device's regular browser rather than relying on a social app's embedded browser. Keep the tab open while you practise and save anything you want to keep before leaving.

2. Set a comfortable listening volume

   Start at a moderate device volume. Check where sound is routed, especially if headphones or a Bluetooth speaker are connected. Raise volume gradually after your first audible note.

3. Choose Play without camera

   This opens the touch path. You do not need to approve a camera request for it. Begin in Melody with the current musical settings and focus on one sound.

4. Hold inside the playing area

   Keep one finger down on the stage. Listen for the note, then lift your finger to stop it. Try another hold before dragging so you can separate the start gesture from movement.

5. Move in one direction at a time

   Hold and drag left or right for pitch. Next, hold near one horizontal position and move up or down for brightness. Select Stop when you finish the session.

02 / ONE FINGER, THREE SMALL EXERCISES

Make touch control predictable

First practise hold and release: make a short sound, lift your finger, pause and repeat. The silence between notes is part of your performance. A long uninterrupted drag can make it harder to hear where one note ends and the next begins. Deliberate pauses help you learn the stage before adding a melody.

Explore pitch with a slow horizontal drag through discrete scale notes. Settle and listen before moving again. Then move vertically near the same horizontal position to hear brightness change. Up and down are not a volume gesture.

Use one active touch pointer for this path. Do not expect a phone's multi-finger touches to become the two independent hands available in camera Melody. A short, controlled phrase is a better starting task. The songs page offers practice ideas when you are ready, and the complete tutorial explains the modes.

03 / HANDS IN THE AIR, DEVICE AT REST

Try camera mode after touch works

Choose Start Camera if you want to try hand gestures. Allow camera access when the browser asks. Put the device somewhere stable, keep the full hand in view and use enough light to see the fingers clearly. Trying to hold the phone and perform with the same hand makes framing unnecessarily difficult.

In camera Melody, pinch your thumb and index finger to start a note. Move horizontally for pitch and vertically for brightness, then separate the fingers to stop. The AI and sound explanation describes why hand recognition and musical controls are different steps. Camera mode does not require your voice or a microphone.

Tracking can vary with hardware, browser, lighting and framing. If touch sounds correctly but camera playing is hesitant, work on the camera view before changing musical settings. Mobile camera performance has not been verified across physical devices here. You can keep using touch while deciding whether the camera experience suits your setup.

04 / CHOOSE A COMFORTABLE SETUP

Phone and tablet tasks are different

A phone is convenient for a quick touch phrase: keep it secure, make room for a slow drag and avoid starting at the very edge of the screen, where device gestures may interrupt you. Pause between exercises to check whether your touch is still inside the playing area. Moving beyond it is different from the synth choosing a wrong note.

A tablet offers more touch space and can be easier to position for camera experiments. Choose by your task, rather than assuming a larger screen guarantees faster tracking or native sharing support.

Settle on the orientation before recording. Narrow screens use portrait automatically; desktop layouts use landscape. There is no frame picker. Test in your intended orientation, then check the saved picture.

05 / A PREVIEW IS NOT A SAVED FILE

Record a mobile performance and keep it

Once you can play audibly, choose Record 15s and perform a short idea. The clip records the instrument's synthesized audio, not a microphone or room sound. The Stop clip · Ns control ends the clip early, with the remaining seconds shown in place of N. The separate Stop button ends the playing session.

Preview the result, select Download and open the saved file to check both picture and sound. A phone's narrow layout records in portrait, automatically using a 9:16 frame. Keep the downloaded video before refreshing, closing the tab or replacing the take. A preview still in the page is temporary, and a saved Beat Jam loop also lasts only in the current tab.

Try Share clip when offered, but complete the destination's flow yourself. A canceled or failed share does not publish anything. If native sharing is unavailable, download the video, copy the caption and link when available, then manually upload and paste them in your chosen app. System sharing has not been checked on physical mobile devices in this verification.

The recording guide explains video formats, saved loops and MIDI in more detail. If you want a compact chord performance, follow the four-bar chord recipe. Download what you need before leaving; there is no account library to recover an unsaved take.

06 / CHECK ONE LAYER AT A TIME

Find the next useful action

Separate input, audio, camera and saving problems. If touching the stage changes the view but makes no sound, first check audio output and volume. If touch works and camera does not, focus on camera permission and framing. A black camera preview is not a reason to enable a microphone.

Scroll sideways on a small screen. Keyboard users can focus this region and use the arrow keys.

Change one thing at a time. Keep a working download before retrying. For help, contact Gesture Synth with your device, browser and the step that failed.

QUESTIONS / CLEAR ANSWERS

Frequently asked questions