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Branches - Semi-modular synth by Willow & Oak AB
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1520212093
Description:
Branches is a semi-modular synthesizer inspired by classics of the past. It runs both as a standalone instrument with support for external MIDI input or as a plugin (AUv3) in your favorite DAW app.
Audio from the oscillators are permanently hardwired into the lowpass gates and the default patch is setup to receive MIDI and trigger the lowpass gate for the complex oscillator. This way you can get up and running fast and are then free to experiment with your own patching.
Branches is utilizing what is sometimes referred to as a "west coast" style of processing which in this case means timbre is adjusted by adding harmonics to a basic sine wave. One of the oscillators does this by fading between multiple waveforms freely, the other does it by employing a wave folder and blending it with another user selectable waveform. The first one can also modulate either frequency or amplitude of the second.
Branches support MIDI input on two channels. This allows you to control each oscillator and low pass gate individually if you please, acting as a duophonic synthesizer.
Utilizing the rest of the modules opens up a world of different possibilities - generative random melodies, timbre changing over time, modulation from your host app etc.
Details:
Universal: No
Minimum OS version: 13.5
Rated: 0 based on 0 votes
Comments
I am curious to hear whether they have nailed the wavefolder. I don’t know of any on iOS that capture the Buchla style wavefolder ... which has a very special character. Maybe this one has it?
Living Memory Software wavefolder is pretty good, especially when paired with oscillators from miRack.
This looks cool, will definitely try it. Great more apps like this esp that it's AU from start.
Manual here:
https://www.willowandoak.se/branches/instructions
It is a nice wavefolder and also not like Buchla's (even on desktop there aren't many that capture its particular character)
I think I'll dive in...
...looks simple enough to get to grips on
The UI in the stand--alone doesn't scale properly on an 9.7" iPad Air 2 leaving some controls 'outside of the screen'.
AUv3 scales properly so no biggie and most AUParemeters are exposed
The Reverb & Delay seem to be missing from the AUv3 UI?
Cheers!
Yea I just ran into the same issue. Also the controls are very laggy on my ipad air 2.
Anyone with a 0Coast wanna chime in on how it compares sound-wise?
Dunno about 0Coast but it sounds a lot like my Volca Modular in my short time with it
I just reached out to the developer on IG: he is aware of the scaling issue and will submit an update to the App Store tomorrow.
Thanks!
So far I'm enjoying exploring the app since I have nearly zero experience with 'west coast' synthesis...
(I'm more of the PWM, Sync, RingMod, FM type of person and PWM is something that is tricky to do 'west coast' style).
Noticed that UI respects Dark Mode On/Off setting even though I would love to use the Dark theme without having to use Dark Mode.
Hope something can be done about the somewhat 'laggy' UI on older devices, but sooner or later I'll get a new iPad anyway...
Cheers!
Yup, auv3 lacks of effects. Hope to understand something, for now I produced only square sounds😂😂😂😂
Yeah, degree of sickness needed? It looks like a nice UI and price, I hope its terrible haha damn yo!~jk
FWIW, the wavefolding seems pretty tame unless I am doing something wrong. Not 0Coast-y or Buchla-y. I also am finding the envelopes somewhat unpredictable. I’ll wait till they’ve had a few bug fix iterations to come back to it. In the standalone, I am also having trouble with patch cords that work fine in the AU.
Have they posted any examples anywhere?
In the manual not all the sections are explained, do you know where I can find some info about this? I’m doing things barely randomly 😂
I'm a bit puzzled....
Why do most modular stuff only have a clock-dividers but no clock-multipliers?
Still getting my 'feet warm' with this one using the little sequencer in it
well there no presets unfortunately and i’ma moron and lost lol i’ll just use the default patch until i have time to mess around but i haven’t been able to figure out how to disconnect a cable
I’m not even able to get sequencer start in auv3. I’m also not able to disconnect cables once connected😂
Same
Disconnecting the cables is easy once you know it, long-tap on the cable.
(Took a while before I figured that one out to be honest).
Thanks💪
No probs, also noticed that it's sometimes plain impossible to make connections (like the graphics doesn't match the 'tap grid').
So no matter how accurate I try to tap'n'drag the lines they will not connect, need to re-size the window and try again...
Anyways a new update is on the way
Well, that changes everything lol! Thanks
Ahhh thanks. I tried for a while last night, gave up and then loaded up Zeeon just to prove to myself that I could still understand how to use a synth!
That’s pretty much what it is I think. You don’t need tweezers for the patch cables tho.
I’ll get this. Love my little Volca Pretend-Easel.
From a hardware context:
A true clock multiplier would be very difficult to implement thoroughly. You can divide simply by clocking a flip-flop so that each clock whole-cycle clocks the flip-flop to one state, the next clock whole-cycle clocks the flip-flop to the other state, thus dividing the frequency. However, if you wanted to somehow raise the frequency to, let’s say double, how would the circuit know where to put the intermediate excursion?
For an input of
[excursion to high][stay high for a bit][excursion to low][stay low for a bit] (and that’s one cycle)
you’d have to evaluate the duration of “for a bit” and arrive at half of that duration. How would it know what that is?
The best you could do is use a phase lock loop to ‘flywheel’ a higher frequency measurement through the loop which when divided down equals the input clock. That works, but doesn’t track immediately. It’s not impossible, but nowhere near as simple as clock division.
IMO, Ripplemaker sounds and works better at this time.
Thanks for the explanation, makes sense so it's better to be generous with the source clock and divide it down
(Most iOS daws top at 300BPM or so and spit out a beat (1/4) so in order to sequence 1/16 or more the BPM would have to go a lot higher if I'm not mistaken?!).
Cheers!
True. However, I’m still on the fence whether to get an 0-Coast, because then I’d also have to get an 0-CTRL. This app will let me fiddle with patching ideas before committing to the real thing and ruining the rest of my eye sight.
@Samu Would you be able to post a screenshot of your patch with how you set up the sequencer? I tried for an hour last night and I could not figure out how to do that for the life of me. There’s definitely a lot that I don’t quite understand beyond the basic patch.
Also does anyone know if there’s a preset save option? or an initialize patch option?
There is no soft synth that I have heard on any platform that sounds as good as an 0Coast. I don’t own one, but several friends do. If you like the kind of sounds an 0Coast excels at, I think hardware is still the way to go.
I am not sure why but subtractive synths seem much easier to emulate well than synths that are designed around wavefolding.