iOS synths with Fine Tune capability

OscarSouth

I have Viking Synth and Thumbjam which can both be tuned (Viking is especially good as it can be automated). Most seem to be locked to western concert pitch however. Have got a lot of mileage out of those two but it'd be nice to have some more variation.

Can anyone suggest any other synths or sampling piano banks that can be tuned?

Does Animoog have this parameter? I found it hard to believe it wouldn't but couldn't find it on first look.

Cheers!
Oscar

hexagonsun83

I have quite a few, FM4, Nave, Sunrizer, iWavestation, iM1, ODYSSEi. Couldn't find it on Animoog either...

OscarSouth

Just spotted that EHX Mini Synthesizer has a fine tune dial. As it's pretty cheap I'm going to check it out.

theconnactic

Oscar, Twin 2 also has it, but it's in thousandths of semitones, not in Hz (which would be ideal, like a guitar tuner).

Will

I know it's not really what you're asking and it's probably not often practical but any synth that will respond to MIDI pitch bend messages can be fine tuned in 1/8192 increments, +/-.

OscarSouth

@theconnactic said:
Oscar, Twin 2 also has it, but it's in thousandths of semitones, not in Hz (which would be ideal, like a guitar tuner).

Good to know that Twin2 has this. Thanks! I do have Auria and although it wouldn't be usable live for me, I do love the sound of that synth (I've only listened to some presets, but yea..). I actually prefer the cents dial myself, as it's easier to automate (basically, the notes I've made on instruments I work with are all as 'Note +/- N cents').

@syrupcore said:
I know it's not really what you're asking and it's probably not often practical but any synth that will respond to MIDI pitch bend messages can be fine tuned in 1/8192 increments, +/-.

That's actually something I've been thinking about. I was wondering whether there's some way to lock or automate the pitch band wheel in Animoog (thinking Modstep) and achieve a rough 'global retune' function.

Moderndaycompiler

@OscarSouth said:

@syrupcore said:
I know it's not really what you're asking and it's probably not often practical but any synth that will respond to MIDI pitch bend messages can be fine tuned in 1/8192 increments, +/-.

That's actually something I've been thinking about. I was wondering whether there's some way to lock or automate the pitch band wheel in Animoog (thinking Modstep) and achieve a rough 'global retune' function.

TC-Data has a pitchbend object that could be used to do this for any synth that is connected as a receiver. Choose constant as the controller and the tune as syrupcore described. You can setup one of these for each midi channel.

OscarSouth

@Moderndaycompiler said:

@OscarSouth said:

@syrupcore said:
I know it's not really what you're asking and it's probably not often practical but any synth that will respond to MIDI pitch bend messages can be fine tuned in 1/8192 increments, +/-.

That's actually something I've been thinking about. I was wondering whether there's some way to lock or automate the pitch band wheel in Animoog (thinking Modstep) and achieve a rough 'global retune' function.

TC-Data has a pitchbend object that could be used to do this for any synth that is connected as a receiver. Choose constant as the controller and the tune as syrupcore described. You can setup one of these for each midi channel.

That is a very impressive looking app!

Moderndaycompiler

@OscarSouth said:

@Moderndaycompiler said:

@OscarSouth said:

@syrupcore said:
I know it's not really what you're asking and it's probably not often practical but any synth that will respond to MIDI pitch bend messages can be fine tuned in 1/8192 increments, +/-.

That's actually something I've been thinking about. I was wondering whether there's some way to lock or automate the pitch band wheel in Animoog (thinking Modstep) and achieve a rough 'global retune' function.

TC-Data has a pitchbend object that could be used to do this for any synth that is connected as a receiver. Choose constant as the controller and the tune as syrupcore described. You can setup one of these for each midi channel.

That is a very impressive looking app!

Indeed it is. My go to iOS controller. I expect one could create micro-tonal scales using the pitch bend object controlled from a table object where the table indices are set to precise pitch bend values. Here is the guide in case you are thinking of purchasing. The lfo object is amazing. It provides 78 waveforms (beyond the typical sine, triangle, square, pulse).

http://www.bitshapesoftware.com/instruments/tc-data/tc-data-user-guide-1.0.pdf

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@Moderndaycompiler said:

@OscarSouth said:

@Moderndaycompiler said:

@OscarSouth said:

@syrupcore said:
I know it's not really what you're asking and it's probably not often practical but any synth that will respond to MIDI pitch bend messages can be fine tuned in 1/8192 increments, +/-.

That's actually something I've been thinking about. I was wondering whether there's some way to lock or automate the pitch band wheel in Animoog (thinking Modstep) and achieve a rough 'global retune' function.

TC-Data has a pitchbend object that could be used to do this for any synth that is connected as a receiver. Choose constant as the controller and the tune as syrupcore described. You can setup one of these for each midi channel.

That is a very impressive looking app!

Indeed it is. My go to iOS controller. I expect one could create micro-tonal scales using the pitch bend object controlled from a table object where the table indices are set to precise pitch bend values. Here is the guide in case you are thinking of purchasing. The lfo object is amazing. It provides 78 waveforms (beyond the typical sine, triangle, square, pulse).

http://www.bitshapesoftware.com/instruments/tc-data/tc-data-user-guide-1.0.pdf

Tc-data has midi-pass-through, so you could f.e. play notes from a keyboard and modify the pitch of animoog through it. Same with ThumbJam and midi-thru:
In Animoog on the env/mod page define an axis for source, key-pitch for control and pitch-semitone for destination (and adjust the pitchbend range and amount knobs). Midi-learn the x- or y-axis with a parameter incoming from thumbjam ('send volume' for midi out=7, mute instrument).

Will

@OscarSouth said:

@syrupcore said:
I know it's not really what you're asking and it's probably not often practical but any synth that will respond to MIDI pitch bend messages can be fine tuned in 1/8192 increments, +/-.

That's actually something I've been thinking about. I was wondering whether there's some way to lock or automate the pitch band wheel in Animoog (thinking Modstep) and achieve a rough 'global retune' function.

Or a little bit of nerd time inside of MIDIFlow should allow you to convert a regular CC to pitchbend. Once set, it should stay fixed. If you know that you always want to tune by the same amount (-25hz or whatever) you might be able to do it more reliably with a toggle switch (off == no bend, on == -25hz).

OscarSouth

@syrupcore said:

@OscarSouth said:

@syrupcore said:
I know it's not really what you're asking and it's probably not often practical but any synth that will respond to MIDI pitch bend messages can be fine tuned in 1/8192 increments, +/-.

That's actually something I've been thinking about. I was wondering whether there's some way to lock or automate the pitch band wheel in Animoog (thinking Modstep) and achieve a rough 'global retune' function.

Or a little bit of nerd time inside of MIDIFlow should allow you to convert a regular CC to pitchbend. Once set, it should stay fixed. If you know that you always want to tune by the same amount (-25hz or whatever) you might be able to do it more reliably with a toggle switch (off == no bend, on == -25hz).

That sounds ideal. I wanted to map tuning to MPD pads, so that I can hit the pad and it'll globally shift the pitch to the desired value. Sounds like it should be possible with MIDIFlow (I'll actually need to convert a note value or velocity to pitchbend, but I assume that this is also possible in MIDIFlow?)

@JohannesD are any of these features heading for Audiobus3 filters?

JohannesD

@JohannesD are any of these features heading for Audiobus3 filters?

Yes.

OscarSouth

@JohannesD said:

@JohannesD are any of these features heading for Audiobus3 filters?

Yes.

Yes!!!!
Thanks

Will

@JohannesD said:

@JohannesD are any of these features heading for Audiobus3 filters?

Yes.

Yum.