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Synths w/o semitone readouts like Ivoks, Obxd … alternatives to tuning oscillators by ear?
I love both of these synths but when setting the pitch for oscillators, ivoks only displays a midi value (not a semitone or cents value, for example), and obxd doesn’t even have that to my knowledge. This makes tuning octaves a little annoying but 5ths, 3rds and so forth are just really frustrating to dial in quickly. This limits how much I use them…I get it, the original hardware may have required that you do this all by ear, but it often means that in order to dial something in I’ll stop a sequence and open up a keyboard as opposed to just dialing it in as notes are playing.
Am I just missing a simple solution for these two synths?
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Would love a filter that was self resonating you could play by MIDI or a keyboard!
I recall some app that was a resonator you could play by midi... It was released around the hurricane of consumerism and appoholism between black friday and the new year so I can't remember what it was. It sounds like it'd be right up your alley, though not a self resonating filter exactly. Does this app ring a bell? Hmm... Last thing I need is another app after buying wires (could play with that forever). And I'm still trying to stay away from Magic Delay even though I love spectral delays. I gotta go back to my 12 step program, obviously.
resonatedo and apeFilter (both as MIDI effect) come to mind, but not sure if that’s what you guys are after..
Maybe I mixed ppl up with my OP...
Basically the pitch knobs for these synths don't give any semitone or cents visual feedback. No detentes, no readouts. You're tuning the oscillators blind (obxd) or with just midi values (instead of -24 to +24 in ivoks you have 0-127) so if you want oscillator A to be a 5th higher than oscillator B, you need to do this by ear. Or at least, that's what I'm doing and I'm hoping I'm just missing something.
With a synth like Poison, I can feed it a sequence and adjust the pitches on the oscillators precisely to see how it sounds as the sequencer runs.
Without the semitone or cents info, I end up having to turn off the sequence, then open the AUM keyboard and play a C4 and then tune the oscillators BY EAR, which I find really tedious and unnecessary present day. Again, hoping I'm missing an easy solution here, because these two synths have a great analog character. It just seems like they've also come along with some great analog annoyances.
Resonatedo looks perfect!! Gonna try it out!
I tune the oscillators on my Barp 2600 through AUM by using an AUV3 tuner app in one of the FX slots.
Sigh, is this where we're at on 2 software synths in 2023 though? Well, luckily the skills of my youth developed pre-internet. I'll break out the tuner. Cheers!
About ivoks, just ask the dev to add it. He's pretty responsive. I also find it a bit silly when emulation of hardware goes too far. In the case of ivoks it is self-decaredly not an emulation but an improvement on the original. Eg it now has 4 voices, but there are other extra features too. It should be easy enough to add a mode that allows semitone increments. But yeah, in the meantime, use your ears! Or a tuner, or just pull out that piano app lol
All fun and games until ravenscroft goes out of tune 😂
Rsvenscroft... The most expensive tuning app ever, yes 😂, but I'm pretty sure it stays in tune. Unless there are sample rate issues I've forgotten about. Welcome to the iOS minefield lol
Thanks all, I emailed the developer, @RedRockSound, about adding detentes to the oscillator pitch and master pitch knobs. I think this will make the synth much easier to use as you can tune the oscillators to whatever intervals you want quickly, without having to stop what you're doing and use a tuner or memorize the cc values associated with each semitone. This would also make the crossmod fm synthesis on the synth a little easier for tuning as well as you can tune the oscillators in harmonic or inharmonic intervals more clearly for that xmod goodness. If anyone else thinks this is a good idea (unless you never change the pitch of your oscillators), please shoot them an email. They have a contact form on their website.