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Cheers @zilld2017 and @SpartanClownTide , I think you’re both right, might delay the inevitable a while though, enjoying just twiddling for now
One final note on iVCS3: some of the packs are free in the store—including the Pink Floyd, for your home Laser Floyd shows.
By the way, iDensity should handle all your mangling needs quite nicely.
@ThinAirX iPulsaret is more conventional, like a 'normal' synth, in that it can be played melodically with a keyboard or pitch-to-MIDI converter if you have one for your clarinet. It can get wild though, way beyond most other synths. iDensity is more like a sample-mangler and isn't as musical as iPulsaret, imho, and though it can be played monophonically with a keyboard - there are no envelopes or VCAs, etc. Sparkle is essentially a vocoder, and is the easiest to learn.
All 3 of those can be loaded as both AU instruments and AU FX.
apeDelay and apeFilter are extra-wild FX, and it's easy to lose control of them, so I'd recommend Dedalus Delay and DubFilter from Amazing Noises, who works closely with apeSoft (just 2 developers really).
Not a sale and necessary. If nothing else, @JamesEdwardCosby uses these mods in many of his presets and he is the god emperor of iVCS3 sound design, as @Daveypoo will confirm.
@Gavinski has made several tutorials for apesoft apps, for Stria (FM synthesis for the Mensa crowd) and Moebius Lab (sound design and -mangling suite that can also host other AUs).
iPulsaret is a comprehensive granular sound mangler that can process samples and live input as well as provide several other synthesis options. iDensity is the simplified multi-channel version of iPulsaret, it offer six separate audio streams in stand alone and more as an AU. Preset handling between the two is a bit quirky.
Sparkle sounds like the app you are looking for.
IDensity or Fieldscaper or Borderlands
For completeness sake, there’s one more advantage of ApeMatrix vs AUM: it can sync to external MIDI clock
Moebius Lab is mangliest of mangling apps. It can string that little clarinet's neck, twist it into a pretzel, stuff it's head back up it's blowhole and turn it into a pile of quivering jelly.
Its an IAA app though (although it can host AU's). And ugly IMO. But something well worth picking up if you don't mind a substantial learning curve.
It’s a good thing to have. You get a few extra capabilities but they can make a difference. For example, you get S&H on the noise gen, if you want, and you get some oscillator sync options on VCO2, and a different filter design option.
I think it’s a valid thing for synths that are faithfully modelled on an actual physical synth, to also offer (perhaps as an extra) a set of enhancements that either people have implemented on the real synth over time, or that people generally agree would have been better if the synth had have had. For example, most people agree that the Korg MS-20 would have been a better synth if it had also had the same PWM as the MS-10’s VCO had. But if an MS-20 app came out and it had PWM, people would complain that it’s not a faithful emulation. So, have any desirable enhancements packaged as an add-on, like this one on the iVCS3.
Wow. I never knew about the Seap function in ApeMatrix
seap?
*swap
Notice that the usual Apesoft bundles (with 25% off on each app) have disappeared...
Whoa, wim, what poetry! How graphic! I'm inspired to do some mangling. Off to the app store to fill up my shopping cart. Thanks all for the explanations.
Just to be really clear, something like Sparkle or iDensity can be used while playing live, right? Put in the Fx slot in an AUM track and controlled with MIDI?
ThinAirX
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