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Jam Synth Rainbows, Freeze and updates
Jam Synth has just been updated, it contains some new IAP, Rainbow and Freeze. AB2 state saving, midi updates, IAA stuff, harmonizer with high quality pitch shift, transient detector and some more as well. This app is awesome and has been under utilized by me, that will soon change.
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Awesome! So what exactly does the rainbows thing do?
Polyphonic pitch shifter with analog modeled auto filter. But I haven't figured out how to "enable IAP" as it states in the Fx2 tab.
Edit: now they show up as purchaseable.
I really liked this app for the brief time it worked for me. My midi controller just doesn't recognize it. Any suggestions @WMWM?
@Ben try a guitar or a virtual instrument, cc7 is volume cc11 is expression, it also has pitch bend These are sent on the midi channel you set in jam synth.
Here is a thread. http://forum.audiob.us/discussion/2406/jam-synth/p1
Here is a video.
updated quite a bit since then, maybe @thesoundtestroom could revisit with the updates, but I'm sure he's busy.
Couldn't find it anymore, but there was a guy on the net who creates some very good music with Jam Synth.
Hope that clears it up
All these IAP's are fantastic. Just been running Animoog through it and it gives excellent lush results.
The freeze looks interesting IAP ,but I can't figure what rainbow does....we need a video soon!
I think I got awhile back before I had as many synths as I do now, and I really didn't understand it. Now that I have a better grasp of MIDI, I really should try it again, but wonder how laggy it would be.
IAP's looked interesting so if I can get it to work, I'd definitely flip the dev a buck or two.
Thanks @WMWM. I'll check this out.
Actually that clear things up nicely. Thanks again for the input.
Jam Synth is all these pedals combined for $5:
https://m.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/boss-ps-6-harmonist-pitch-shifter-guitar-effects-pedal?source=3SOSWXXA
https://m.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/electro-harmonix-microsynth-xo-guitar-effects-pedal
https://m.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/boss-dd-3-digital-delay-pedal
http://www.bossarea.com/loadpage.asp?file=boxes/dc-3.xml
http://www.jimdunlop.com/product/hendrix-70-univibe
https://m.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/electro-harmonix-freeze-sound-retainer-compression-guitar-effects-pedal?source=3SOSWXXA
The synth is much more powerful than other mono synth pedals however and the pitch tracking and harmonizing is also far superior to anything you can get in a pedal. Try singing through the harmonizer... or run any other pitched mono sound through it. It's pretty sweet. The only effects that are mono are the synth and the harmonizer. If you turn both of them off then all the other effects can be used on polyphonic material while jam synth is in the filter slot.
i downloaded this a few months ago but had never opened it. Yesterday I finally did and am loving JamSynth! Had great fun playing my guitar triggering a patch in Magellan. Best free app I've found ever.
How do you unlock the IAP's - when i tap the Harmonizer, etc in FX2 nothing happens..?
Haven't picked up my guitar much in the past few weeks for work/life reasons. This is certainly a compelling reason to try that out again!
The cool thing about this concept is that I have all these great synth apps, but I don't enjoy interacting musically with a keyboard the way I do with a guitar. If you can get it to work properly with MIDI, it be like suddenly having hundreds pedals in a handheld device, or as many for which you have a synth preset.
do it StormJH1 - i hadn't picked up my guitar in almost a year since yesterday playing JamSynth...It's so much fun! I was only able to play an hour before my fingers were too sore - gotta build up those callusses again... gonna go try some more now.
I got some pretty extreme callouses bending notes all day while working on the multi channel harmony pitch bend.
Jam Synth really isn't about the midi though. It works, but it really shines when you let the pitch tracker control the internal oscillators and harmonizer. There is like, no latency this way (as opposed to midi), and it really still has a guitar feel to it. Triggering note on events to a keyboard... just sounds like running your fingers down a keyboard.
It's pretty much worth it for the harmonizer alone. Turn everything off except the harmonizer and turn up the dry guitar output. Send this to BIAS and some dirt pedals and you've got a pretty musically filthy lead tone. Maybe add a saw or filtered Rez from the synth set an octave down for extra filth.
Great tips, Thanks.
https://app.box.com/s/z7bopreqywp59tw8c113
JamSynth with Turnado first jam(just a sort loop!)The sounds are from Jammsynth,the repeated loop is turnado with Slicearranger, added FreezeVerb,some Filter and NiceDynamics (capturing Jamsynth)
Hope you understand it was a just how "Jamsynth can sound?" and after an hour jamming realized I wasn't (as usual) recording anything!So I pressed record last minute on turnado and uploaded it thru audioshare!
Some observations:
-The Harmonizer adds lot of noise ( but it's very nice...)
-The TIMESTOPPER(I'd prefer bigger buttons) is a bit buggy- killing my ipad3 cpu...especially on audiobus when I focus on other app ,the sound is messed up...I am not a developer and maybe "freezing" is cpu consuming, so a lofi mode would be welcomed!Maybe an ipad4/air user could test that?
-The knobs are a bit too speedy.I mean I have to make tiny movements ,else I max out the values (or zero them) often.
-I'd like to see a guitar/synth wet/dry mix knob and a basic limiter.
-And midi learning for controlling this excellent app.
To summarize : JamSynth can make extremely expressive sounds, the rainbows make wonderful soundscapes and oscillators can be raw.Thanks dreamless!
Nice textures there @Korakios.
Yeah, nice use of Turnado there, @Korakios ! I could easily image that part ramping up with some bass and drums, and pretty cool to think that it originated from a guitar.
I bought the Harmonizer and played a bit, it did not disappoint! Will probably buy the Freeze and rotary later. Haven't tried MIDI yet, but I'd have to play around with the internal synth to see how versatile it is. Lots of fun.
Wow, if you hadn't told me that was jam synth I would have never guessed it! About the noise, the harmonizer multiplies the signal x4 when you pitch shift the audio passed through it. It makes 3 copies of the input and adds them to the original after they shifted. Shifting the frequency while keeping the formant in place doesn't really add anything, but copying the signal does magnify any noise that is already there as well as make the output much louder (because then are 4 different sounds playing at once instead of one). The recording sounds like it has some distortion on, which could mean that loud volume levels are causing clipping somewhere.
The time stopper is indeed cpu intensive because it works in the frequency domain. A lofi time domain granular approach to freezing is possible but doesn't sound nearly as smooth. It would have its own character though.
Thanks for the kind comments!I'll try to make some patches and sound demos next weekend!
Hi,
I've been trying the Freeze function (I was looking for something like this in iOS!)
and I enjoy it. It would be great to add a MIDI learn function to the app so one could use it as a real Freeze pedal with my bluetooth pedalboard or a program change pedal.
Well you're in luck! I just added MIDI learn for freeze / unfreeze and master on / off. I fixed the AB2 filter port and a crash.
Ooooh that's superb!
Cheers
Hi,
I downloaded the update a few dates ago. Everything looks cool, I saw the MIDI Learn for freeze / unfreeze but wasn't able to put it to work. I used a Bluetooth MIDI Pedalboard, the IK Blueboard through its Blueboard app, wich I've been able to succesfully use with the MIDI Learn function of, e.g. Loopy HD. Don't know if I'm doing something wrong here, any help would be great, mates! Cheers
Hello
When you try to teach it midi, do the numbers next to the buttons change? Or do they just stay at 0-0?
Hi,
No, they stay at 0-0.
Hi again,
It's been a while,
I finally did the trick with MIDIBridge, simply connecting Blueboard to JS (which implies using the Blueboard app+MB+JS but hey it's cool as f...!)
Cheers
Pablo
So it's working? I messed with the blueboard app but couldn't get anything working either. I ended up using an expression pedal to trigger midi notes for the freeze.
Absolutely, yeah, working good!
I even made it learn the unfreeze event.
Blueboard in control change mode.
Yeah the freeze is amazing! Better than the pedal cause you can muck with time. I need to do the blue board thing now too