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@Coloobar said:

Yep, I've got all their synths, all good. Look forward to their next one!

mkell424

As far as synths not mentioned I really like Terrasynth. Its got a very full rich sound.

RUST( i )K

@funjunkie27 said:
Although Different Drummer gets a fair amount of coverage, a lot of it is less than positive. It's still one of my faves, but the other one I enjoy a lot is Guitar Toolkit, which is rarely discussed. It's by the same dev as AmpKit, and you can even use the Ampkit tones with it. With the IAP, you get a more sophisticated metronome, but most importantly, to me, is the chord sheets. I'm not sure if that requires the IAP or not, but well worth it, if that's the case. What it does is allow you to pick a scale, select matching chords, then add those to a chord sheet. You can then play the chords from the sheet, print out the chord sheet, or email it. For boning up on theory, its great, but I enojoy it for getting a quick composition together (play the chords from the app with the metronome in the background, while I struggle through the lead bits, using the scale I started with.)

Different Drummer excites me and I don't even have the handle on it to really feel confident.

Any other app with such a slow learning curve for me would have been retired to the background status of deleted apps.

Different Drummer is potentially the most amazing app to date if I just can get it 100%.

I actually have used some of your presets to fiddle with.........................

RUST( i )K

@knewspeak said:
For me SynthX by WayOutWare, such a pity this lies dormant, has the expressive control of Thumjam, with a simple, but deceptively deep, and nice sounding synth. Such a joy to waste time with this app.

Never heard of it.

knewspeak

@RustiK said:
Never heard of it.

No AB or IAA I'm afraid but SynthX by Way Out Ware, Inc.
https://appsto.re/gb/RZ4hz.i

funjunkie27

Cool @RustiK....I hope they help. I've used other shared presets on the DD community and learned a good deal from them. Good luck getting to 100% though. I've used it for some time and would guess I'm around 65%. There's always something new I find.

funjunkie27

Agreed that SynthX and Oscillab deserve more praise.

animal

noatikl, very nice mixture of control with generative-ness, inspires the hell out of me...

Coloobar

@knewspeak said:
For me SynthX by WayOutWare,

The 80's called and they want their UI back.

Jocphone

BitWiz. Pure genius.

JohnnyGoodyear

@animal said:
noatikl, very nice mixture of control with generative-ness, inspires the hell out of me...

I first got wet in iOS with Mixtikl, but still don't understand how it works. Very cool however

u0421793

midiTTS

Vio

Littlemidi

Springsound

and should Quincy be in there too?

Redo1

Yeah synthx is fun to play with. Great sound too. A bit limited sonically? Don't remember. Fiddly preset menu and parameters. I remember that.

eustressor

Have to agree on Oscilab - let's hope the dev is sticking with it. Such a fun and explorative sonic playground that creates useful sounds with wild variants.

My own choice for undersung, if not unsung (I know Doug loves it) app is easily Omenie's M3000. I use it on almost every recording I make. And not a bit sounds like "Strawberry Fields" or "Nights in White Satin," although you can go that route if you like. Especially once you get all the tapes with all those horns, voices, the lot. Definitely amazing to have a loaded Mellotron at your fingertips for $75 all told.

ScratchDisc for runner up unsung app - a cheap and easy way to add some nice DJ scratch/effects to your recordings without, y'know, going all in for DJ apps

gkillmaster

@knewspeak said:
For me SynthX by WayOutWare, such a pity this lies dormant, has the expressive control of Thumjam, with a simple, but deceptively deep, and nice sounding synth. Such a joy to waste time with this app.

O yeh! I forgot about that. I agree!

Littlewoodg

@knewspeak said:
For me SynthX by WayOutWare, such a pity this lies dormant, has the expressive control of Thumjam, with a simple, but deceptively deep, and nice sounding synth. Such a joy to waste time with this app.

+1
Might see revival with Musicio? I think it has core midi...?

JohnnyGoodyear

@eustressor said:

My own choice for undersung, if not unsung (I know Doug loves it) app is easily Omenie's M3000. I use it on almost every recording I make. And not a bit sounds like "Strawberry Fields" or "Nights in White Satin," although you can go that route if you like. Especially once you get all the tapes with all those horns, voices, the lot. Definitely amazing to have a loaded Mellotron at your fingertips for $75 all told.

For shame. I bought this and deleted it for space before wrestling with it much and now you tell me I might have had Catherine Deneuve on my doorstep, but turned her away because of being already full up with random noise. Story of my life etc.

oat_phipps

@Peanutcram said:
Remember Earhoof or sqrt, anybody?

The Earhoof ear mortars preset was the only one I ever used, but it ruled. Got my dollar's worth for sure.

RedSkyLullaby

Samvada and earhoof

knewspeak

@Coloobar said:

Hey this is Asteriods vs Synth, guess that's why it's Way Out Ware, in a way would love to see Animoog's keyboard have an option to take over more screen space, similar to the iPhone version, apps that allow you to vent your expression through touch and motion, with a UI that's functional but fun, that's a buzz, to me.

JeffChasteen

@RedSkyLullaby said:
Samvada and earhoof

Samvada ++++!

firejan82

WerkBench and SynthX - good calls, I love those too. I also always loved Tabletop even though there were always some ugly issues with it.

RUST( i )K

What about SYnthQ?

Kind of cool in a way.

Great for dub stuff if that is your thing.

JohnnyGoodyear

@firejan82 said:
WerkBench and SynthX - good calls, I love those too. I also always loved Tabletop even though there were always some ugly issues with it.

Tabeltop is a wasteland choked with endless possibilities etc.

kobamoto

@knewspeak said:
For me SynthX by WayOutWare, such a pity this lies dormant, has the expressive control of Thumjam, with a simple, but deceptively deep, and nice sounding synth. Such a joy to waste time with this app.

Littlewoodg

@firejan82 said:
...I also always loved Tabletop even though there were always some ugly issues with it.

Me too, love me some Tabletop. Unsung to say the least, more like hatesongs around here lol

Audiojunkie

Crystal Synth XT is a fantastic unsung monosynth. To this day, Crystal synth is still considered one of the best synths of the desktop world (a forerunner to Absynth), and regularly is included in top-synth lists today, despite having been released years and years ago. The developer ported it to iOS and because of the power usage chose to make it a monosynth rather than a polysynth, but it is the exact same engine as the desktop version, and patches can be traded back and forth. It is very cool to have it on iOS, but it almost never gets any mention.

Audiojunkie

Oh, and did I mention that it also works on the iPhone? ;-)

Audiojunkie

Another really great one is Audulus, which doesn't get mentioned as much as it deserves to be.

JohnnyGoodyear

@Audiojunkie said:
Crystal Synth XT is a fantastic unsung monosynth. To this day, Crystal synth is still considered one of the best synths of the desktop world (a forerunner to Absynth), and regularly is included in top-synth lists today, despite having been released years and years ago. The developer ported it to iOS and because of the power usage chose to make it a monosynth rather than a polysynth, but it is the exact same engine as the desktop version, and patches can be traded back and forth. It is very cool to have it on iOS, but it almost never gets any mention.

Give you two points for that one. It does have a formidable sound.