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Which synth?
I have really gotten into electronica music. I play guitar and love using my ipad to make music. I just got to ipad air and I want to get a synth app. I listen to music using pandora and some of the band I like are blackmill, Ellie goulding, Lindsey stirling, etc. I like the dub step drops but I also like the soft melodic stuff.
Is there one ipad synth that will give me similar sounds or will it I need to get multiple synths? I have been looking at thor, nave, animoog, and sunrizer. It seems like those are the most popular.
Thanks for your help.
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Thor covers all different types of synthesis and is a great synth, tons of flexibility, can be in depth or can use some of the 1000's of presets available...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thor-polysonic-synthesizer/id660195946?mt=8
Sunrizer is a great virtual analog synth, probably the best and a great first synth..
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sunrizer-synth/id443663267?mt=8
Nave is a great wavetable synth but requires some knowledge
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nave/id596036905?mt=8
I was leaning to Thor. I just do not want to buy a bunch of apps that I end up not using or that are redundant.
Sunrizer ..awesome sounding synth with lots of factory presets with . Lots of additional sounds available for free download. Easy too make your own sounds too.
Yeah I'd have to go with Thor first..it will cover a lot of ground...or if your not so much into programming try Alchemy, its free first with lots if sounds, a recorder and stacks of IAP's of top quality genre related sounds...then there's N Log which is also very nice and can also be used in the FX slot of AB as can Magellan..
I'd give another vote for Thor. I have all the synths you've mentioned (and 20 others!) and it is by far my favorite to work with. As @thesoundtestroom noted, Thor looks like a synth that requires programming, and I like it for seeming closest to an ARP2600 in conception -- though it's not patchable but has very flexible routing. But with tons of presets, you can skip that. As an added bonus, Gordon Reid, synth programming hero from Sound on Sound's "Synth Secrets" series, did a special series for programming Thor, which rocks.
I think it's always difficult to go with just one. I love to set up all the massive synths like Alchemy, Sunrizer etc. in one Audibus Session filter it trough AUFX:Dub and record it into AudiReverb f.e. Of course i control all synths at the same time over virtual midi. It's like to play one super duper massive evolving universe of sound
Sunrizer is a great first synth.
Sunrizer if you want the best and most versatile VA on the AppStore. It's just so far ahead of anything else in its field on the AppStore. It can give you nice lush pads and cover your dub step. That said, "Soft melodic stuff and dub step drops" and mentioning Lindsey Stirling, my other choice (not second) would be Nave. Nave, being a wave table hybrid synth can give you your authentic violin/cello etc, and really really fat drops and so on. Those 2 synths would cover it all really well IMO.
As someone who's only gotten into (ipad)synthesizers this year sunrizer is one of the synths i use the most. Not only because of the great sounds,but also because (almost) everything is accesible from one panel. If you have a midi controller you can even put your effects where the keyboard is. And what i like so much about it that all controls are very easy to map to a midi controller. As a synthesis noob i found it harder to wrap my head around thor and nave.
None of the major synths strike me as redundant.
I'd put Sunrizer first and then go from there.
Thanks everyone for your comments and help. I went with Thor and I am loving it right now but I can see myself buying all the other ones.
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That's the answer, don't beat yourself up trying to make a choice, just get 'em all!
My names Doug..and I'm an Appoholic..it's been 12 hours since my last App...
My name is Dennis and i'm an Appoholic too..... but i can't wait 12 hours for an new app :O. Perhaps 4-8... the time i'm sleeping
Well the first step is admitting you have a problem. The second is realizing why you can't make the mortgage payment this month. ;-)
Sorry kids, no food this week, two new apps came out. Oh and don't get your hopes up about next week either 'cause it's not looking good! While were at it, you two need to get jobs, I understand your only two and a half and that your brother is only 2 months old but I need the...I mean we need the money...for stuff...yea....stuff
It started with my kids’ college fund, then my retirement fund, mortgage, utilities, and now food. I should just ask my employer to pay me with apps. I've found that although I have a lot of great sounding apps, I really can't get the sound I want while living in a cardboard box.
You've come to wrong forum asking about synths. Welcome to the spendaholics club where apps rule the universe and men eat card boards and sleep with their iDevices :-)
I was but an old homeless man begging on a street corner as a wealthy woman stepped out of her Bentley and walked towards me.
She offered me either a MacBook Pro loaded with ProTools, Logic, Cubasis, Live, Reason, Bitwig Beta!, and nearly every plugin I could ever want…
… or a $25 iTunes gift card.
As you can appreciate, only one of those offers could get me another synth on my ipad within seconds.
@funjunkie27 - really? I find my cardboard box has a nice atmosphere to it and give a stellar reverb lol
It might be the difference in acoustic tile we're using @JMSexton.
So I had an ipad 2 and had never thought about using it for music until I got beatpad for free. Then I was like these dums and stuff sound pretty good. So I started looking into other music stuff and found loopy. At the time I was saving for a loop pedal but soon after getting loopy and an FCB1010 I realized this was way cheaper than a RC300.
Although I have a hard time paying for apps I will be asking for iTunes gift cards instead of presents. My kids basically took over my ipad 2 the. It got ran over by a car so I had to get an ipad air. Now my kids can't even look at it much less touch it.
Man, this thread went south suddenly! I think some of you live in my town: I had a guy wash my windows when I was at a red light. He had a sign that said "will work for Apps!"
I should mention that among the homeless population, I am known as "the 1%". Instead of one cardboard box, I have 5 connected by designer Duck Tape. It's known as the "McMansion". My homeless neighbors keep calling the homeless cops for all of the sound violations caused by my ipad music making addiction.
@AQ808 - it better be Camo Duct Tape!