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Synthetic by Soungelea
https://apps.apple.com/app/id487551670
Description:
Analog Modeling Synthesizer
Velocity sensitive keyboard
10 x 6 Modulation Matrix
2 Oscillators, 2 Filters, 2 LFOs, 2 AHDSRs
Ring modulation
Can be used for Karplus-Strong synthesis
16 voice polyphony, 2mS sound buffer on current iOS devices
(2 voices and 10mS buffer on iPhone 5 and iPad 2 devices)
Details:
Universal: Yes
Minimum OS version: 9.3
Rated: 0 based on 0 votes
Comments
Good find. Would obviously Love some connectivity though.
This is really a lot of fun. Loving the mod matrix. Thank you for the post.
Yea, this is insane for free. I like it pretends to need to tune too like a real analog.
Oh my friggin matrix! What is happening, the world is ok in like this iOS bubble! Cheers!
HI just saying this is still really weird. The app dev left me a 'psychic impression' that auv3, midi and all that is totally in the works....Unofficial mind warp info, just because its too good. Like the apps by Paul FM 304 and all those dopers.
Nothing like what he said on Facebook. Sounded like it was all too much hassle.
ok my paranormal skills have failed. I tried haha
Yeah he replied me that is a hard work for a one man with a life too and that Apple documentation about it is really crappy
AppStore says this came out 8 years ago, and was only updated once about a day ago.
The update added Max for Live control, which is not very interesting for my situation.
It doesn’t seem like there is very much to get excited about with this synth app, unless you like it how it is right now.
heh its vintage
Well, respect to the developers who do manage it in that case!
Greetings people, I am the developer of Synthetic.
Oceansinspace, your intuition was right:
14 bits NRPN CC MIDI is fully implemented and working (hardware/network/inter-app/with-the-Mac-through-USB)
I did implement Interapp audio, that's the reason why I am on this forum. It was one very hard work week, 7 days, 18 hours a day. When it finally worked I felt good. Then I spent more than 2 months trying to find out why it randomly would work, and then, randomly, it would not work. I ended up making a stripped version of my project, with only a few lines of code, at Apple's request. They couldn't find out themselves why it randomly failed. It was a nightmare. I would not call it a breakdown, but I was really pissed off and I stopped working for 3 or 6 months just to mentally recover.
I also implemented AUV3, but it is incomplete. I did't find acceptable documentation that would allow me to be confident about what I was doing. I worked by trial and error and I did not like it. It was a long process until I could make it work. And it works partially and it's buggy. Apple's example is incomplete and badly written. Do people think they look smarter if they write shit that looks complicated? Why is there no readable documentation? Apple's developer website tells developers to go watch the developer conference youtube videos (I used to be an Apple fanboy, but not so much anymore). For example, I could not even find out how big the area of the screen for an AUV3 instrument should be. Garage band would give me 1/3 of the screen. The internet is a mess with body parts of unreadable Objective C and the several versions of Swift. Objective C is deprecated, but Swift is not suitable for audio rendering (Apple's words, WTF?!)
All this was hard work, and I did not enjoy doing it. Also I am not very good dealing with Objective C and I hate the cryptical way Apple has been designing its APIs, the appalling documentation, and the messy, incomplete and non-working code examples.
I started Synthetic in 2011. It's mostly a physics engine meant for videogames. The synth is about 10% of the code but it took about 50% of the time on it. I didn't mind because I enjoyed it. Working on the filters is fascinating. In the beginning everything sounded quite bad. It's only about 100 lines of code but I changed it times and times again, in search of performance, softness, wildness, and avoidance of digital artifacts and math errors.
Only in 2016 it started sounding OK.
Making an easy to use user interface was quite a journey.
I wanted it to be useable even if people are high, either from using drugs or from the synth trip itself.
I only had the first beta-testers about 2 years ago.
I didn't like "working for my beta-testers". They were quite selfish and demanding, and I do not really like the music they make.
It has been in the app store only for 2 days. (the 2011 date is because Apple demanded a binary at the time so that I was allowed to keep the Synthetic name. I submitted the binary but I never made it available)
I don't expect making money from a synth, except if I build a hardware something, a la teenage engineering
(something I can do but I don't want to, for 10 years my work was designing electronics)
In 2013 I quit my job, started travelling, and working "full time" on Synthetic.
In these 9 years I became quite disappointed with the way Apple is going. I don't really trust Apple anymore. They now want to kill OpenGL, like Microsoft tied to do in the 90's. They keep inventing new programming languages and new APIs, and deprecating old ones. I find that quite disrespectful towards programmers, it's like they're turning our memories into some sort of brain damage.
I want to avoid proprietary development technologies, I don't want to follow the trends created by chicken-brained people and brain-dead corporations without a heart. My tools are C and OpenGL, I want to keep it like that.
I'm also not happy, as an user, with the lack of temporal precision of iOS touch events. The lag, and the jitterness.
For my musical pleasure I started using Ableton Live + Max + Push, and I became happy with them. Synthetic has been adapted to work with those. I did it for myself. I'm just sharing it out of curiosity: will someone do something with it that really like?
Technically I don't see the need for AUV3. Why does Apple not make things in way that allows apps to work together without the AUV3 bureaucracy? The concept of plugin is not necessary with a sandboxing os like iOS. Synthetic on my iPhone, Ableton Live on the Mac, I connect the USB cable and they just work together, why the need for plugins inside one same computer? For me it is an idea from the 90's and, as operating systems evolved, it should be no longer necessary. Maybe I'm wrong but I can not see why.
This is just a rant and carelessly written. I don't have many people to talk to about these things and it feels good to write it here.
Joaquim
p.s. A screenshot from the physics simulation video-game Synthetic runs in, and a screenshot from Synthetic as an AUV3 instrument in Garageband
Fascinating post. Made me download. Hope you stick around. You’d fit in nicely here.
@kanguru007 Hi Joaquim, welcome to the forum! Nice rant, made me download Synthetic.
Since you didn’t like the music your beta testers made, what kind of music would you like your synth to make?
As they say “brevity is the soul of wit” so maybe Apple is lacking. Lol. Glad you could get that off your chest @kanguru007 It’s an interesting perspective that us non developers/non coders don’t hear or know much about, so I’m glad you shared. Regardless of it all, I like the look, sound and simplicity of the app. Thanks for making it. Cheers!
@kanguru007 : hi, good to see you here
I’m just a grateful user, not a dev, but I share your irritation with the way Apple keep changing things without any regard for people who have (in my case at least) invested hundreds of pounds on tools which they then just arbitrarily break, remove the audio out socket, yada yada yada... I love Apple for what it permits - and hate it for what it denies.
Not for me to say, but there are some great devs on this forum who may be able to point you at sources and solutions for the technical issues you have encountered, should you reach out to them.
In any case, I hope you find the resolve to return to developing your app, I’m enjoying playing with it as is, but would love to see it reach it’s full potential.
Welcome!
I’m also curious of the type of noise you’d like to hear from your app. Will download soon and abuse it.
There used to be the music that I liked and the music that I enjoyed. Some time ago I fused the two.
(1) As a teenager I listened only to Punk and Indie Rock. (2) Then Funky and House. Minimal is the only kind I can play because I am technically limited and, although I like music structure, my memory does not work for it. (3) Later, tribal African music, and then (4) Techno and Psy Trance. (5) Jazz I enjoy sparely. (6) Latin music I started appreciating more lately.
Dancing
(1) Tried to dance at house parties but I was too shy to move my feet.
(2) The same at clubs. Everybody knows that nerds can not dance.
(3) Was joining African Drumming class, joined African Dance classes by mistake: I was one hour too early and someone cute (I can't remember who she was) said "take off your shoes".
(4) Now I feel really comfortable at clubs anywhere. I'm usually next to the speakers or in front of the the DJ.
(5) I'm learning Lindy Hop
(6) I'm leaning Salsa and Bachata
Then in February all this stopped. Amsterdam became like a ghost city. Clubs are closed. No partner dance classes either.
I started working hard in Synthetic, to make an Ableton Live useable version.
Bought a pair of JBL Club WS1200 subwoofers in a sealed enclosures, and a suitable amplifier for my motorhome. I even made a rime about it:
Bass Reflex bass = Headache
Sealed Enclosure bass = Chocolate Cake
For listening together or alone, and forget a bit the shit it feels we are in, I made an ear candy playlist with my random favorite mellow easy songs, to be played with shuffle and on repeat. I'm sharing it here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aNqkEGc1zhCNEP5q2lHxy?si=n40w8WraS0SBzlsUXtsq2A
Yea I agree with you on the all 3 points.
I wanted to mention that as well, there are a bunch of developers/coders/ & Very Knowledgeable people in this forum. Almost all of them are very friendly, and quite generous when it comes to helping others out.
@kanguru007 Maybe try to connect to someone who can help by starting a discussion in this forum and see what happens... Could amount to nothing, or could be the beginning of something Great, you never know.
@kanguru007
Welcome to the forum. 😊
Like Cracklepot has said, welcome to the forum.
Sounds like you've had quite a journey.
I've already downloaded your app as I saw your posting on FB.
Thank you for sharing.
@kanguru007 a fascinating and depressing read. It seriously takes a lot of balls to be a dev with Apple making so many things so difficult. I admire your perseverance!
Thanks for sharing this app....a new one for me....
welkom en bedankt voor de app
Update with minor fixes released
This thread is high quality. Giving Synthetic a spin now.
Welcome @kanguru007
Probably the best first 2 posts by any user in Audiobus’ 8 year history.
This line made me belly laugh.
Agree!
That way of writing only could have been made by a developer: how to get into African dance in 6 steps, note the parentheses in the numbered list! 😁
Anyway, @kanguru007 welcome and thanks for introducing us lay people to the sad reality of iOS development.
I still stick to AUv3. Not because I can have many instances of one app but because in the end I live in AUM. Just like that.
Absolutely! What a dude!
By the way, this appears in AUM, but can’t be loaded there, just hangs.
Yes, you're right! I intended to remove AUV3 support but I forgot to do it! Instead of removing it I now spent a bit of time so that it now it loads (only the first time) and plays notes in Garage Band, The UI is not working though, I could not find any documentation or any code examples of an AUV3 instrument with a self-3D-rendered UI.