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Is there an iPad app like EHX's Superego pedal?
The Superego is a kind of freezing effect, which also turns your guitar sounds into synth sounds. It's a pretty unique effect, and I wondered if there is anything similar for iOS? I'm most interested in the freeze part of it.
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Echo-Pad by Holderness has a 'Hold FX' button that should do this (I don't have a guitar at hand to check atm)
For guitar to synth sounds you may check Sparkle by Apesoft.
It's a different approach as it modulates the instrument's spectrum with a sample.
Apefilter by the same developer is also cool, here's an example where all sounds come from a Telecaster modulated by the filter.
one track is the guitar processed with a wah like sound, the synth part is from snippets of the same original recording with heavy processing.
Ipulsaret
It does granular stuff (freeze)also with live input
Turnado has freezeverb(dunno if thats similar to what you are looking for), and loads of other effects
Great! Also, nice track @Telefunky. I love how the slides on the guitar work with the synth-y sounds.
I shall check it and see.
If you have some computer daw, you can download the demo of the desktop version here to test it out http://www.sugar-bytes.de/content/download/demo/index.php?lang=en . Ipad version is the same, but the ipad version comes with the four xy pads for controlling it, but can also be controlled with knobs from midi controller
Oh and you should also check if effectrix could do what you want(from sugarbytes as well, so demo at the same place). There is no freeze, but the loop thing seems to be quite similar to freeze, and i think(go double check) that you could use it with a midi foot pedal, which would be rather handy with a guitar. Its a step sequencer really, but if you had one effect over the whole sequence, it would be more of on/off thing rather than sequencer + you could make it do all sorts of other cool stuff besides just one thing all the time due to sequence thing. At least the desktop version can be controlled by midi notes.
Great stuff. I just found out I already bought Holderness' EchoPad in a bundle.
thanks - but sorry, I forgot to mention those synth-y sounds are 'extended' by a certain echo effect by Valhalla-DSP's Übermod.
It's based on a tape algorithm with high feedback, so comes out more like a reverb.
Actually I use this Plugin almost exclusively for this effect. It's very dense and airy...
The Holderness stuff sounds great, no doubt. The quality to $$$ ratio is insane compared to boutique pedals. But for total weirdness, you want Turnado. And for true synth type sounds, I finally just ponied up for MIDI Guitar 2 to use actual synths; it's the most fun I've had as a musician in 25 years.
MIDI Guitar 2 is absolutely amazing for playing synth apps with your guitar. Fast riffs get lost in the tracking process but slow to moderate speeds sound amazing. Pads sound amazing using this app. Brass , strings , organs, oh hell, what am I saying . MIDI Guitar 2 is just rediculous fun no matter what synth patch I use with it.
Grainproc can be used as an ehx freeze type effect. It is dead simple, and very smooth, when you add enough voices to blur out the little seams in the tiny samples.
And maybe fluxfx
Am waiting for a sale myself.
Boy is it. Just bought it yesterday for something to have fun with. After adjusting my play style a bit, turns out I can actually use it seriously!
Tip on midi guitar: mix your guitar signal in with the synth/organ/horn/etc. It gives me the attack I need so that I don't have to alter my playing too much.
A quick update. I bought a Superego and I don't like it at all. There's a latency thanks to the fade in of the synth sounds which makes it tricky to play. I know you can adjust that, but I couldn't find a setting I like. Also, the auto mode needs a very loud signal to trigger. I usually play with my amp turned up and my guitar volume down, so I have to crank the guitar while using the effect, which throws everything off.
In short, I didn't get along with it, and I'm returning it. Instead I tried MIDI Guitar, like you recommended, and it's amazing. I lost a few hours playing into the Moog Model 15 with it yesterday, running the result through a Deluxe Memory Man and into a looper. Amazing. It's everything I expected from the Superego, and for just €30 in IAPs.
The lack of IAA in MIDI Guitar is a pain, as I'd like to route my clean guitar signal through some other FX, but a splitter box should take care of this I guess.
you can split via Audiobus and add Mimix to the end of the chain if you want to adress dedicated hardware outputs.
I use Multitrack DAW to record dry and fx channels separately that way.
IAA sucks in this context, slows the whole thing down if present in more than 1 channel.
The problem is that MIDI Guitar takes its input direct from the hardware, not from Audiobus. Unless I'm missing something, there's no way to split the input and send it on to MIDI Guitar.
in IOS you can feed an input to several destinations
But the destinations have to work with AB right?
Not necessarily. I leave MG open and it catches the clean input outside of AB and delivers virtual MIDI out to synths. I use Tonestack for guitar modeling and effects in AB simultaneously. I use MiMix to mix and mute channels.
Nice. I'll give that a crack.