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What, no love for modular or jasuto? Audulus is very cool and VERY flexible, and the only one of the three that runs on the iPhone.
The building blocks are simpler than that, but you could certainly build whatever kind of waveshaper you wanted, and use it over and over. The math ("expression") module is where all of the cool stuff happens with building your own effects. There are some nice saturation/overdive modules the developers built, but are you thinking about something like the Serge waveshaper, that folds the wave up, as the amplitude increases?
I made a old time 60's octave distortion (see French Toast Pedal on the AnalogKit swap meet), which is a wave folding effect, that takes the negative half of the signal, and flips it positive.
Love Analog Kit, never gotten on with Audulus, too complex.
What I’m wanting is a controllable wave shaper that can have, for example, bezier cubic sections or simple curve points where each control point is controllable by a CV value generated by something like an LFO or arpeggiator or env or combination of all those, in both the X and Y directions. More than one point at once, of course, and all controllable.
That way you could transition from a linear pass through to delinearised even to clipping, to folding, or ringing, or overshooting the edges, or even just straightforward symmetry controlling, dynamically shiftable during the note according to CV, to partial folding and partial starving, or partial ringing and partial clipping, or, well, lots of things. It needs actual parametric control over the X and Y of many points along a transfer curve.
Vote from a newbie modularist.... Analog kit! I want adulus though. But it looks too advanced. For some reason the app "modular" seems perfect but has not been too fun or sounding good for a newbie. I like the wiring on modular and analog kit so far
Yeah Analog Kit is really fun, and accessible. Pulsecode Modular, while a little bland, is super powerful. The modulation rates go pretty high, the filters sound good and it feels like working with real modules.
My suggestion would be either of those two
Oh the only thing I found with Analog Kit is that it sometimes produces very loud pops, irrespective of the volume setting of the device. I mean so loud that I can feel my Air 2 thud/vibrate in my hand. I keep thinking one day it's just gonna kill the speaker!
I think that might be what happens if you inadvertently put DC on the output in Analogkit, it's like testing a speaker with a 9v battery. Sometimes I notice the meter is pegged even though no sound is coming out, I think that is when some CV is hooked up to the audio output.
That seems pretty elaborate, the cool thing about these modular programs, is you can build stuff like that. I love Analogkit, because you can either just use it as a synth, or circuit bend things by hooking them up weird, or use it in depth, as a visual DSP environment, for building your own instruments and effects.
And any news from analogkit guys? They were here everyday
I was just thinking about AnalogKit today, and found this old thread.
The developers of AnalogKit were amazing when the app was released, but it hasn't been updated since October 2015. Hope that doesn't mean what I think it means.
Similarly, Modular Synthesizer by Pulse Code hasn't seen an update since January 2015.
And Jasuto? December 2014 for a last update.
So, long story short. Stick with zMors Modular or Audulus if you are looking for a modular experience on iPad. Both of these developers have been around for a long time, and are dedicated to maintaining their apps.
Audulus update coming
Indeed, where are our AnalogKit guys?
Re the modulars, update wise some interesting stuff is in the pipeline in zMors modular
First the the 1.7 update: a few surprises
When looking inside the AU module to make a selection, included in the list of the latest AU instruments and fx available in-device there are 17 items that appear in plain type:
Most of the 17 are fx like these, but also included are "AUMidi synth" and "AUSampler"...
Some of the new Christian C Thompson presets are using these modules.
(The presets are so very good, and handy for reverse engineering self-tutorial use)
Very curious about that sampler. There already is a sampler module, wondering if there's something like a standalone unit in the works like his EQ AU
Edit: emailed the dev about these additional AUs, he said they're AU2s, accessible in app (except sampler and synth at this point because an AU3 wrapper is still needed, and is on his update roadmap for all of these listed in plain type...which sounds like all 17 will be accessible indevice rather than just In-app)
If I understand this correctly, that means that 17 AUs are in his pipeline, including a sampler, and a synth built inside ZMors...hello?!
Those 'extras' look like the standard Apple Audio Units?!
It would indeed be nice to be able to use them in all AU-X enabled apps... (I guess it's also up to the 'host' to expose what is already present in the OS. The OS X 'AU Sampler' can already read *.dls, soundfonts and exs24 files).
I'm using the 'System AUs' with Renoise to play soundfonts
That's what the dev called em, "Apple AU units"...which I guess means they're inside there already, and ZMors as host is reading them...
and he says that making AU3 wrappers is part of his roadmap, that next is to make an "AUv3 wrapper" for the "AUv2" plugs, and that's what will be needed to make the MidiSynth and Sampler happen...
Yeah, those AnalogKit guys seemed to bail real quick after the release of the application.
I have all 3, and to date, Audulus has taught me the most and so has been my go to for learning.
I have tried to contact them about getting locked out of my account, but I've never gotten a reply.
modular synthesis is generally a bit difficult on a tablet. Because for modular synthesis you need a user interface for easy selection and connection of modules. Then you need some kind of controller to actually play the instrument. All these apps mentioned try to meet these requirements, but mostly they only provide a playground for simple multi-sound patches that are difficult or impossible to play as an instrument.
There are a lot of discussions in the modular community whether a patch is self-running, or a playable instrument. For me, these self-running patches are only interesting if they are playable/editable, and I'm rather interested in single-voice playable patches.
Therefore I prefer to use semi-modular apps like iVCS3, Model 15, Tera, etc. because they have a compact, recogniseable user interface with good control of single parameters. With them I can play and perform with ease. For custom modules the mentioned apps are great, but mostly I use them for single tasks like custom filters.
Upcoming Audulus 3 Update:
"The update includes hundreds of new modules, including some never-before-seen sequencers and effects. The new Audulus module library is also designed to be much easier to understand; inputs and outputs have been standardized to work well with modulation and audio outputs, so there’s no more guesswork about what type of signal goes where." (From Synthtopia)
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