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ISEM Synth-Your thoughts....
I missed the boat on the special price for iSEM, but do you guys think it is worth the regular $9.99. I already have tons of synths, and wondered if having Thor, Z3TA, Poseidon, etc, if this synth adds something new to the table, or should i hold off and get it when it returns to special price. What are your thoughts on it and if you have any special sound clips to share, especially for PAD sounds, or strings, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
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Don't have any clips to share and no time to make any this evening either, but it is definitely one of my most used synths. I would say it is worth $10, then again if you have all the other synths mentioned perhaps you don't need to rush out to get it. It depends on how you are with synths. I am mainly a preset tweaker who get off on fiddling with a new (or newly remembered) app, so many synths is a good thing for me.
I love that it is AU. I have had lots of fun with iSEM and midiLFOs. As it is AU I can be a bit more sloppy with selecting what sounds I pick from it, as I can always add another track with something else, unlike a few other synths where I have to pick my weapons carefully, for specific tasks.
Worth every penny.
Great sound
Interesting voice programming modulation
AU ready
Interesting filter and signal path
All of Arturia's trio of iOS synths offer something unique, of course there are similarities in synths but there's enough in iSEM to dig on its own.
I bookmarked this site called AppShopper.com last year and it has proven itself invaluable. Of course, news and announcements of all the sales has cost me dough, it can be hard to pass up a sale.
A really cool thing is that the site lists what an apps precious sale price was and when they were. For iSEM, it shows that in 2015 Arturia ran several sales, every few months or so. I'd wait until another sale comes along and then pick it up...be cool.
Good , solid synth and I use this a lot more since I got aum . Up there with Thor and Nave for me
Easily my favorite softie on the iPad. Whether you need it with a bunch of synths already, don't know. It's great at basses and leads though. AU, as mentioned, and has a lot more behind it than the typical synth options: modulation matrix to add 8 different modulation possibilities; voice programming where you can change the freq, res, filter mode, VCO tuning, envelope settings, pulse widths, etc per voice; (not seen on many soft synths, but adds a lot to the depth of the sound) a few effects and an arp on a performance screen where you can mess with a number of options.
Denis it have a decent manual?
@Tones4Christ I think the AU thing puts it over the edge and, yes, you will, probably should, have it in your locker, but if it's sometimes on sales you won't go hungry while you wait etc.
Worth $20 to me. Easily my favorite iOS synth. I think it does beautiful pads.
Kind'a slow to load, but it's the only standalone synth I use on iOS.
Absolutely worth it. Yep!
If you use AUs - definitely get it.
Otherwise maybe wait?
It's great for pads, and arpeggios. Lots of weird sounds, but I love it for is warm 80s synth sounds it can make. I think ur can be used for anything. Like others have said, the AU puts it in another league.
Top synth. Probably my favourite out of the vintage analog emulation category.
For less than the price of a movie you can entertain yourself for like a bazillion hours. It'll take you longer than a movie just to go through the presets.
More seriously, though ... Its an AU man! You can load it up multiple times if you want (and you have something like AUM that hosts AUs). Oh yeah, definitely worth full price.
+1
Works fairly stable I as AU loaded in DAW which makes changing sounds easy on a whim.
It’s a nice sounding generic subtractive synth with a relatively powerful matrix patching ability.
I’m mostly of the opinion that matrix patching is a tidier cleaner more sensible method of patching than having discrete modules and handfuls of patch cords — especially if like 90% of synthesists you’re only ever going to stick to a normalised subtractive architecture.
Modules and modulars are more tactile and visual, though, and this is supremely impressive to everyone else (but if you’re the synthesist, they seriously get in the way, hindering usability). On the other hand, modulars are not actually there for making playable sounds, they’re there for disposing of excess time. And in the case of hardware modulars, excess money, too. They’re a legal drug for the owners, and a socioeconomic signal to others. Matrix patching achieves most of this within normal limitations, without the willy-waving and with sensible playability.
The downside of the SEM/iSEM is the stunted envelope. It’s more primitive than the usual Attack;Decay;Sustain;Release most people are familiar with, being a transient generator more akin or at least more related to the VCS3/iVCS3 arrangement. On the SEM the decay is also the release time. The matrix patching on the SEM is limited — there’s a lot of possible destinations that are not available (which a true modular synthesist would obviously like to have). But, it makes good sounds.
It's one of only 2 AU synths I know of on iOS unless you count Auria's inbuilt FabFilter synths. So it's must.
Worth a lot more, IMO. Get it!
3
NS-1 and Viking
Both very useful and make some fat sounds.
http://downloads.arturia.com/products/isem/manual/iSEM_Manual_EN.pdf
Highly recommended
I’ve still yet to understand or even experience any of this AU stuff, until the technology matures enough to run on my iPad 2. What difference does it make to the synth? Is it the same user interface, features etc, or different (or better)?
I like the sounds in iSem a lot, but am bothered by the inability to change presets via MIDI. This seems to be typical of all Arturia apps, so probably not likely to change. This makes it hard to use live, at least for me in my workflow.
Where is the tempo when loaded as an AU? I loaded it in AUM and opened an arpeggio preset. Hit play in AUM, and iSEM is not aware of the tempo set in AUM.
I remember someone wrote somewhere on this forum that he's running the Blamsoft apps on an iPad 2 with no problems.
here, 7th from the top:
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/12421/blamsoft-audio-unit-effects-bundle-now-available/p2
iSem = highly recommended
I bought iSem, imini and iprophet, I think as a bundle? I like them all. They don't get great reviews on the app store, so I was hesitant. I think they are 5 star synths.
The only competition it has for classic synth bass is iMini.
Well, I’ve already got iSem, but how do I make it be an AU as opposed to normal?
KEEP IN MIND THE SAME PEOPLE WHO MAKE ISEM, DID NAVE AND N-LOG.
IF I had to buy two synths that really run the table for "house" music in the 1999-2004 sense, IProphet and ISem do it very well. 2 distinct yet critical sounds.
The other plus with ALL Arturia synth apps is this STABILITY STABILITY and CONSISTENCY.
MIDI works fine and is easy to use also.
Interfaces are multipage, but not at all cumbersome. They are done in a thoughtful manner.
I was going to make a sound sample of ISem for the OP but I got caught in a loop with IProphet and ran out of time.
ISem is also one of those synths that EASILY can be used to make entire songs. I have done it.
IProphet and ISem are MUST haves.
After I read my own post I always end up feeling why DO I NOT USE THESE MORE! UGH