Syrinscape Fantasy Player Reviews

Amazing App, 2 major problems

mrlincoln

This app is so fun and crazy amazing! Great sounds, great music, but for me, almost utterly unusable. The problems are these: 1) Sound stops when exiting app! When you exit the app, the sound stops! Unlike itunes or many other apps that have it worked out to play in the background, Syrinscape does not (that I could find). That means if I want to look something up on my ipad or run my game off another app like Encounter+ or GameMaster 5, the sound quits immediately. And again, since I’ve been running enounters off of GameMaster, the great soundscapes abruptly cut off and completely spoil the mood. So that makes it unusable for me. 2) Multitasking is not enabled I tried to work around the above issue, with multitasking, but since it’s not enabled for this app (as far as I could tell), I could not add Game master 5 to the same screen. This would have been a valid work around, and in fact really nice because I could still control sound and game master 5 at the same time. (And yes, I checked, GameMaster 5 DOES have multitasking enabled. So that’s not the issue.) Again, great novelty, but without those 2 functions, I can’t use it during a campaign. I tried running off my phone, but it’s too small for me (on an iphone XsM - the big one), and I don’t want to use 2 devices at a time. Just doesn’t work for me. Again, this app is really cool, with great sounds, but if I can’t use it, it’s just a cool toy. If I’ve missed something with my able 2 problems, please let me know! And of course, I’ll update this review if I’m wrong or if the developers fix it. Thanks!

Can’t use bar at bottom of screen

ChipmunkPDX

This app is currently useless on the iPhone. I can’t hit play or start or adjust the volume. They are too far at the edge of the screen so the screen just swipes but not the volume. Great program and have to go back to using my laptop, but this app is broken!

Back ground music request

Tj93rx7

Ben - another request for allowing music to play when the screen locks :) probably harder to do than we all think but a worthy goal none the less! Still I do have a 6 ft power cord for the iPad and use it most sessions and enjoy the added immersion it provides.

No Sound

Bazinghast

Downloaded the app, registered and downloaded sounds. Tried pushing the different settings to figure it out. Restarted my phone and cleared my cache. No sound would play.

No register option in the app?

CrapDangle

There is no way to register in the app! You can submit fake log in info at which time the app asks if you have registered. How? There is no option. I did find if you go to App Store and click on the problem with the app link it takes you to a website in which you can register. Not user friendly, especially if the developers are trying to make some $. Downloading free content? Fine. Want to buy something? Jump through hoops that are not readily visable.

Great tool

3GunPete

Awesome app. Love that each sound can be individually adjusted for volume to create custom moods. Also really cool to have a few free sound sets to give users a sample and a feel for the app. Great for GM’s who want to easily set the mood in their campaigns. A couple things that would make this app more user friendly and would increase to 4 or even 5 stars. 1. The app doesn’t run in the background, so music and sounds stop when switching between other apps. Forcing me to use multiple devices to run games as I use other apps for notes, NPCs, initiative tracking etc. 2. The app has an extensive list of ALL the sound sets offered, and no way to filter that list. If you have purchased a sound set that appears at the bottom of the list you have to scroll all the way through every time. Would be great to have a filter to narrow the list making sets easier to find in game. 3. If using the app on your iPhone, make sure your silence switch is turned to the ringer position, otherwise you can’t hear anything, and turn on do not disturb mode. Admittedly this isn’t that big of a deal but took me awhile to figure out. I always have my phone on silent mode.

Needs much work

fu3zy

I LOVE this idea but it needs work. No sound on my iPad at all, plays on my galaxy but I can’t login. I try to reset my password and it does but it won’t tell me what the new password is. Hopefully they read this and fix it.

Useless

Projectkastra

Absolutely useless on the iPhone. Most of the buttons are out of screen and it is not rendered at all for the small iPhone XS plus. Good concept but needs major UI overhaul.

Great atmosphere enhancement!

626-EXP

This adds sooo much to our pathfinder games! I love that there are built in sets for different adventure paths! Just wish there was one for Curse of the Crimson Throne...

For the lazy DM...

xXD4RK1Xx

Only a good app for DMs too lazy to put any of their own work into creating a soundboard. Yes, if you take the creative cloud subscription, it may be good for using custom music (because honestly their preset things are pretty bad) but otherwise it’s useless. I’d personally just customize my own soundboard and use that since music is really all you need to create a good atmosphere for a tabletop RPG. Overall, if you want to spend a fortune on your D&D music for something that’s relatively easy to manually make? Have fun? But as for me, I’ll just stick with the AudioBoard app and use my own music and soundboard without a need for a subscription.

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