Drones

Nasatyuana

Hello folks,

What are you all using for drones sounds on the iPad? I have Mononoke, but I'm a bit bored of the sound of it, used it for a long time. I'm specifically looking for drones suited to more melodic styles of music, ambient etc, rather than harsh industrial type drones.

Thanks all!

sevenape

I use:

Shoom
Fundamental
Borderlands granular

Depending on my mood. All of them great for drones, but fundamental only really has one “sound” and borderlands is a granular synth that can make drone out of any sample.

Shoom is 3 polyphonic synths in one it’s old but easily one of the best iOS synths

thesoundtestroom

@Nasatyuana Fluss is also great for drones.
I too love Mononoke.
You can also make great drones with Gauss, Factory Synth, au GEN X, SynthScaper, GlitchScaper, iVCS3, Fundamental, SoundScaper & FieldScaper

sigma79

Apps but sometimes ( I think )

Resonators effects via midi.

rottencat

Almost anything through the Max Cloud preset in Velvet Machine.

Nasatyuana

@rottencat said:
Almost anything through the Max Cloud preset in Velvet Machine.

Just tried it, unreal results. Thanks

rottencat

@Nasatyuana said:

@rottencat said:
Almost anything through the Max Cloud preset in Velvet Machine.

Just tried it, unreal results. Thanks

👍

andowrites

These, plus a few other bits and bobs from various synths and effects processing, such as Velvet Machine, Black Hole.

waka_x

my favs (and used live with love) are:
Shoom and
Aparillo +
one that its not mentioned here - dunno why -
THE no1 versatile droner for me - it has everything -
you can even use it standalone (because of superbe fx)
is Factory
https://sugar-bytes.de/factory-ipad

note:
I've never seen Factory as a "synth":)
its THE drone factory to me.
morph and mutate and the fx section made it my dream droner,
in software or harware!

bygjohn

If you want to get into the nuts and bolts, you can do a lot with MiRack. In particular the Dronez oscillator through the Stairway filter, and into the Valley Plateau reverb, with lots of slow modulation on all three from various LFOs.

HotStrange

Oh man there’s a ton. Droneo, DR-0M, Glitchscaper, Fluss, Gauss, Fundamental, Thermo, Mononoke, Animoog Z, Drone Machine from Taqsim, Autopad through some effects, Aparillo, Elastic Drums, Shoom, iDensity, Tardigrain, FRMS, Skiiid, or various sequencers through other apps. I love some drones if you can’t tell lol

Also Eternal Flow Drone, Ephemeral, and DroneLab are great.

HotStrange

@thesoundtestroom said:
@Nasatyuana Fluss is also great for drones.
I too love Mononoke.
You can also make great drones with Gauss, Factory Synth, au GEN X, SynthScaper, GlitchScaper, iVCS3, Fundamental, SoundScaper & FieldScaper

I forget I have AU Gen X sometimes, it’s a truly great app. That through Other Desert Cities, Velvet Machine, Blackhole, ESO 2 , etc is just otherworldly.

jwmmakerofmusic

I do love Bleass Granulizer and Velvet Machine for melodic drones. In Gadget I use Kiev and on the IFX I put a reverb and feedback reverb and adjust the parameters to taste.

david_2017

Very very interesting answer. I need to revisit factory then. Do you have some startingpoint or do you go wild with the randomizer (dice ball) and drown it in reverb? Hm 🤔

@waka_x said:
my favs (and used live with love) are:
Shoom and
Aparillo +
one that its not mentioned here - dunno why -
THE no1 versatile droner for me - it has everything -
you can even use it standalone (because of superbe fx)
is Factory
https://sugar-bytes.de/factory-ipad

note:
I've never seen Factory as a "synth":)
its THE drone factory to me.
morph and mutate and the fx section made it my dream droner,
in software or harware!

ion677

DJI mini 3.

HotStrange

@waka_x said:
my favs (and used live with love) are:
Shoom and
Aparillo +
one that its not mentioned here - dunno why -
THE no1 versatile droner for me - it has everything -
you can even use it standalone (because of superbe fx)
is Factory
https://sugar-bytes.de/factory-ipad

note:
I've never seen Factory as a "synth":)
its THE drone factory to me.
morph and mutate and the fx section made it my dream droner,
in software or harware!

Aparillo and Factory are great answers for sure. Really any of the modular synths on iOS are great for this. KQ Mini, Ripplemaker, MiRack, Audulus, Branches.

andowrites

@andowrites said:

These, plus a few other bits and bobs from various synths and effects processing, such as Velvet Machine, Black Hole.

I forgot to add PaulXStretch (I use it so often that it's not in my Drone folder, it's in my Studio folder.

There's an interesting tutorial video about using PaulXStretch on iPad that I just came across:

Poppadocrock

Skiiid the odd little drum machine has a cool drone mode that can create some interesting sounds. You can randomly generate sounds too then tweak away.

Droneo but IAA only

Autopad by the developer of Zoa and Ooda is pretty cool, doesn’t have a ton of sounds but you can load your own.

Poppadocrock

@rottencat said:
Almost anything through the Max Cloud preset in Velvet Machine.

True.

Montreal_Music

@Poppadocrock said:
Skiiid the odd little drum machine has a cool drone mode that can create some interesting sounds. You can randomly generate sounds too then tweak away.

On sale now, it looks interresting.
Thanks.

Montreal_Music

@andowrites said:

@andowrites said:

These, plus a few other bits and bobs from various synths and effects processing, such as Velvet Machine, Black Hole.

I forgot to add PaulXStretch (I use it so often that it's not in my Drone folder, it's in my Studio folder.

There's an interesting tutorial video about using PaulXStretch on iPad that I just came across:

Did you add news apps recently to your drone section?

sevenape

not OP but it's been a good month for drones... Hilda, Noises and Broohahazier are all excellent for drones, not to mention Cascade...