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Single Cell Mastering App coming to iOS
New mastering app from Single Cell coming to iOS soon, see video.
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Instead of o a mastering "app", of another Ozone-like FX suite to iOS, I'd love a dedicated mastering DAW such as Audition or SoundForge, with support for AU, IAA and thus third party effects.
Until then, I'll simply keep using AP, which comes really close and has Desktop grade hi-end plug-ins.
Excellent. Superb. Wonderful. Great. Fabulous.
It looks like a useful mastering tool with adjustable parameters that give you control over your mastered track in reasonble detail.
Is it everything it could be? No.
Is it the same as a suite of desktop tools and outboard gear? No.
But. does it provide a number of common FX applicable to mastering? Yes.
Is it usable as a mastering tool ? IMO yes - at least to a reasonably good degree, and it looks like it gives a good amount of control over what you can do.
There are definitely things I would like to see added or enhanced. But, what's there is immediately accessible and deployable in a mastering role.
Helpful video that, along with all the caustic videos (one-person "team" right?) demonstrates the tool and how to use it - and also acknowledged for what it is and what it isn't by the author - limitations and all. Honesty. Integrity.
Fantastic.
Watching the vid, it seems to offer the same degree of flexibility as Ozone itself. The quality of the effects is what matters if they don't want to fall short like Final Touch (which has a superb interface but mediocre FX).
iPhone version? We can hope!
Cool! Can't wait to try it out!
Does it let you do fade ins and fade outs? That's the one reason why I, sadly, never ever use Final Touch. I want control over the levels at the very beginning and end with fades. I can't believe Final Touch, with everything it has, doesn't have that key feature used in mastering.
Auria is my go-to for mastering/finalizing on iOS, but it'd be cool to have some good competition in that area from other apps.
Yes, please!
That developer is awesome, and Caustic is an amazing product. At the same time, for as much as it offers, even fans of Caustic will tell you that "finished" sound quality is not one of its strengths. Maybe a lot of that is due to the quality of the synthesis itself, but I don't consider the individual components of that app to be particularly special compared to Gadget or stand alone instruments and FX app that do what it does. It's just a damn cool app anyway because it's so much STUFF for $10, it's universal, and it totally flows.
But all that said would I buy a Single Cell mastering app? Probably. On the first day of release.
I agree that there's a certain rawness to Caustic's sound and approach: the dev seems committed to keeping things inexpensive and multi-platform, and as free from 'imperial entanglements' as possible.
That being said, it's just silly how much goodness is packed in the app, and it's capable of producing great sounding stuff, especially when you take advantage of the very-affordable 3rd party sound libraries.
Though I don't really need it, I'll likely be buying the Mastering app the first day of release as well. (The simplicity of the controls (especially the stereo imager and exciter) would likely help the app find a place in my workflows that focus mainly on speed and spontaneity: like stuff I'm spitting out of AUM).
I've mentioned this before, but I'll say it again. I truly believe that the "rawness" of the sound is due to the fact that the generators (synths/samplers) don't have built-in effects. Effects are separately patched in Caustic. For this reason, patches don't automatically have effects, which gives the final sweetness/polish to patches. So, the patches sound raw. It doesn't mean that the sound isn't good, but it means that you have to treat the instruments in a more "old-school" or modular way, by adding the effects you want, to the patches you choose. Effects are already built into the patches of Gadget, so it is really unfair to compare the two when there are no effects patched into the Caustic patches. That said, I prefer Gadget's way of doing things.
That's an excellent point. I'm sure that did occur to me as I was using Caustic (I recall adjusting reverb and other FX adds per channel on my projects with it). I've also made that same comment about BIAS (the original one) for guitar - it has a Room Reverb baked into that you can turn on/off, but you could easily look right past. So people fire up a Fender amp in BIAS and think "wow, does that sound nice", when really, you could get pretty close to that sound with some of the other apps plus an on-board or FX slot reverb.
So you are absolutely correct that raw synth sounds (software, hardware, whatever) can be extremely harsh and abrasive without effects and proper mixing. I still think that the quality of Korg's effects (across their library of apps and in Gadget) is a clear level above what Caustic offers. But, as I'm sure we'd both agree, the value in Caustic isn't really the quality of what's offered, it's the flexibility it offers with a huge library of sounds (in an amazingly small file footprint), it's capability as a compositional tool, and the almost open-source nature of it across multiple platforms. Not only does he have a community area on his website for downloading free user-submitted patches, but I've created .beatbox files on the PC version (since all my samples are saved there), uploaded them to DropBox, and then imported them into Caustic iOS - that's pretty cool.
I agree with you completely!
Caustic is a great value for the money for what it does and offers and its community and openess provides a lot of value. Gadget is more polished (and a great value too). I guess it just depends on what the user is needing/wanting. 
One of Caustics great features is it's built-in FTP server. I can access all Caustic files and dump them to Dropbox very easily by using Readdle Documents app. I wish other apps would do that. The app itself is easily in my top 5 at all times and if I had to choose just one app I'd take Caustic.
I'm greatly looking forward to Single Cell's Mastering app. I already own a couple (which I love, especially Igor Vasiliev's Audio Mastering app) and can't wait to compare / contrast / use this one as well -- the preview video looks completely appetizing.