Synthgarage Terms of Service

1. What the app is

Synthgarage is a librarian for hardware synthesiser patches. It reads SysEx files, organises the sounds in them, and sends sounds back to instruments over MIDI. It is a tool for managing data you already have.

2. Your licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, as permitted by the App Store terms and your purchases. You may not copy, sell, rent, sub-licence, or distribute the app; reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by law; or remove any proprietary notices.

The app, its interface, and the synthesiser definitions bundled with it remain our property or that of our licensors. Nothing here transfers ownership.

3. Your content

Your sounds are yours. Patches you import, create, convert or generate, and the files they came from, remain your property. We claim no rights over them, and we do not receive them.

You are responsible for having the right to use the patch data you import. Some patch banks are sold or licensed commercially, and importing a bank does not change its terms. You agree not to use the app to infringe anyone’s rights, or for anything unlawful.

4. Purchases

Some synthesisers require a one-time in-app purchase to unlock sending and exporting their sounds. Importing, browsing, tagging and organising are never withheld.

• Purchases are sold and processed by Apple. All payments, taxes, refunds and billing disputes are handled by Apple under its own terms; we cannot issue refunds.
• Purchases are one-time unlocks tied to your Apple Account, restorable on your devices through Restore Purchases.
• Which synthesisers require a purchase, and what each purchase covers, may change for future releases. What you have already bought stays unlocked.
• Prices may change, and promotional pricing may be offered at any time.

Apple’s refund policy.

5. Hardware, MIDI, and the risk of overwriting your instrument

Read this one.

Sending a patch to a hardware instrument writes to that instrument’s memory, and can permanently overwrite sounds stored in it. Some instruments accept a bank dump that replaces every sound they hold. Synthgarage cannot read what is currently in your instrument, cannot undo a transmission, and cannot warn you that a slot you are about to write to holds something you wanted.

Back up your instrument’s own memory before sending anything to it. You are responsible for what you transmit and to which instrument.

The app depends on synthesiser definitions describing each instrument’s data format. Those definitions are derived from manufacturer documentation and from real data, and manufacturer documentation is frequently wrong. A definition may be incomplete or incorrect for your particular instrument or firmware revision, and a sound may be decoded, converted or transmitted other than as you expect.

We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any synthesiser manufacturer. Manufacturer and model names are used only to identify the instruments the app works with.

6. Backup is a convenience, not a guarantee

The optional cloud backup copies files to a storage account you connect. It depends on that service being available, on your account being in good standing, on having space, and on a working connection. It may fail, lag, or stop working if you revoke access or change your password.

Keep your own independent backups. Do not rely on Synthgarage’s copy as the only copy of anything you cannot afford to lose. We are not responsible for the availability, integrity or retention of data held by Apple, Dropbox, Google, Microsoft or any other provider, and your use of those services is governed by your agreement with them.

7. Third-party services

Connecting a cloud storage account creates a relationship between you and that provider. Their terms and privacy policies apply, and we are not a party to them or responsible for their acts or omissions.

8. Pre-release builds

Any pre-release or test build is provided as-is, may be unstable, and may lose data. Do not rely on one for a library you have not backed up. Pre-release builds are distributed separately and carry their own terms and privacy notice.

9. Privacy

Our handling of information is described in the Synthgarage Privacy Policy.

10. Availability and changes

We may update, change or discontinue the app or any feature, and may change these terms. Material changes will be posted at https://www.synthgarage.com/synthgarage-terms with a new effective date. Continuing to use the app after that means you accept the revised terms.

This licence continues until terminated. It ends automatically if you materially breach these terms, and you may end it at any time by deleting the app from your devices. Sections 3 (your content), 5 (hardware), 11 (no warranty), 12 (limitation of liability), 13 (indemnity) and 15 (governing law) survive termination.

11. No warranty

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the app is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, that patch data will be decoded, converted or transmitted correctly for every instrument, or that any defect will be corrected.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded. If you acquire the app as a consumer in New Zealand, the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and the Fair Trading Act 1986 apply and are not affected by these terms. Where you acquire the app for the purposes of a business, the Consumer Guarantees Act does not apply, and sections 9 and 43 of the Fair Trading Act 1986 are contracted out of, which the parties agree is fair and reasonable. If you are a consumer elsewhere — including in the UK, EU or Australia — the mandatory consumer protections of your country of residence continue to apply.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, nor for loss of data, loss of patches, damage to or loss of sounds stored in a hardware instrument, loss of profits, or business interruption, arising from or related to the app, however caused.

Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the app is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the app in the twelve months before the claim arose, or NZ$50.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

13. Indemnity

If you use the app other than as a consumer — for business purposes — you agree to indemnify us against claims arising from your misuse of the app, your breach of these terms, or your infringement of a third party’s rights, including in patch data you import or distribute. This section does not apply to consumers, and nothing in it affects rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

14. Apple

You acknowledge that:

• These terms are between you and Bucket Brigade, not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the app, including product liability, legal or regulatory non-compliance, and consumer protection claims.
• Apple is not responsible for investigating, defending, settling or discharging any third-party claim that the app infringes intellectual property rights.
• You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand, and the New Zealand courts have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, you keep the right to bring proceedings in your own country of residence, and this clause does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws that apply there.

16. Contact

Bucket Brigade

Publisher, Synthgarage

Email: support@synthgarage.com