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Sound across the suite

Explanation

Zenith apps can play soft sounds as you use them. There are two layers: short cues that every Zenith app shares, and each app's own voice. One switch turns the shared sound off everywhere at once.

The suite's shared cues

Every Zenith app shares one set of short cues: tap, click, select, open, close, add, remove, complete, error, nav and ask. They sound the same in every app, so a tap feels like a tap wherever you are. Each app plays only the cues it needs. Zenith Calendar, for example, uses seven of the eleven.

One switch for every app

A single sound switch is shared by the whole suite. Turn it off in one Zenith app and it's off in all of them. It's on by default.

  • Zenith Launcher: "suite tap & nav sounds", under "suite" on Settings › system. In the launcher the shared cues also need "✧ sound — the sky's voice" on.
  • Zenith Calendar: "sound — everywhere in zenith", on Settings › the calendar's voice. There it also governs the calendar's own voice and its back sound.
  • Zenith Journal: "sound — everywhere in zenith", on Settings › "the journal's voice". The journal's own "volume" and "the scale it plays" sit under it and show only while it's on.
  • Zenith Tasks: "sound — everywhere in zenith", on settings › "motion & sound". There it switches Tasks' own chimes as well as the shared cues.

Each app's own voice

On top of the shared cues, Zenith Launcher and Zenith Calendar each have a voice of their own. It's generated on your phone as you touch things, with no recordings. It plays notes pitched by where your finger is, so moving across the screen comes out as music.

Both voices use the same five scales, with the same names in the same order, so a scale means the same thing on your home screen and in your calendar. The scale is kept per app, though. Your calendar can play in a different key from your home screen.

It plays nicely

Zenith sound never takes over the audio, so your music keeps playing underneath. Which volume it follows depends on the app:

  • Zenith Launcher follows your media volume.
  • Zenith Calendar plays on the phone's ring and system volume. Silencing the phone silences the calendar, and the phone's volume buttons set its ceiling. The calendar's own "volume" slider scales underneath that.

In each app

See also. The Zenith Suite & broker · Glossary

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