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Arturia Oberheim iSEM is quite good
I just want to mention if you’re into analog sounding synths, the Arturia Oberheim iSEM is quite authentic. The more I mess around with it, the more I’m impressed.
it’s just too bad Arturia doesn’t make more for the IOS music world. It’s also AuV3.
Depeche Mode classsic synth.
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This has been on my short list for so long. The sound demos I heard from this are very HQ. I might jump on this soon.
It wasn’t Arturia specific that made iSem for iOS, it was a single developer, Rolf Wöhrman…
Rolf is/was a great cleaver dev with a lot of great apps made for iOS…
Interesting facts ..thanks;)
I need to see what else he has made. I must say this synth is quite a gem.
It’s warm and reminds me of a mini Oberheim 1000 or 6. Brassy and bright,
Yeah it a great synth. I’ve had it for so long now and don’t use it as often as I used to but it sounds excellent. Used it on a recording with my old band.
It’s sometimes good to take these out of the “dust” and hear how good they are. Same goes for Propellerhead’s Thor.
Doug may have mentioned this in his video, iSem was the very first (or one of the first) IAA synths to become AUv3. (7 years ago)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nlogsynth-pro/id393879841
For me Rolf Wöhrmans best and most ambitious work for iOS is the wavetable synth NAVE…
https://apps.apple.com/se/app/nave/id596036905
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
I must check that out.
This is still one of my favorite synth apps ever. I really hope Waldorf will do something else on iOS eventually. Korg owns them now (or does distribution for them??) so maybe they’ll rub off on each other lol
I never got around to getting this one. How is it? I remember people loving it when it came out. Wa surprised to see it go AU.
Playing around with iSem and indeed, this is a great sounding synth with a very analog vibe. Too bad it doesn’t scale to the size of my ipad, it stays fixed at a certain size, a bit too small to my taste.
iSEM is the synth that began Arturia's journey towards releasing genuinely authentic emulations. Before iSEM they were better known for releasing products that only succeeded in emulating the skin of analogues past glories, the audio they produced was thin and lifeless. But iSEM was only the beginning of the journey. When you compare iSEM to GForces OB-E and SEM plugins you'll see that efforts are still wide of the mark in terms of genuinely capturing that classic "Oberheim sound" (OB-E is six SEM's combined for polyphonic duties, and that's the GForce plugin that's directly comparable to iSEM, SEM is mono, much like the hardware Oberheim SEM) . All of Arturias post iSEM offerings, have been bang on the money; they're now releases that I genuinely look forward to playing.
https://www.gforcesoftware.com/products/the-oberheim-bundle/
Having said all that, I like iSEM when judged on its own merits (particularly on iOS seeing as GForce sadly don't make iOS instruments at this stage). It's particularly good at wide stereo field pads/strings.
I'm not sure we're likely to see either Arturia or GForce releasing iOS/iPadOS versions of their instrument plugins any time seen, but if they do, I'd expect them to sell for $30-50 per instrument. They're already producing AUv3 products that function natively with Apple Silicon. It's simply a matter of perceived value. As iPadOS blurs the dividing line with macOS, it doesn't make sense for desktop plugin developers to release their products on iPadOS at significantly discounted prices. But $30-50 might be viewed as more feasible.
I played this for a friend of mine who has an Oberheim SEM and he said it sounds very real. He just said it needs to run through a real analog tube compressor to make it sound a bit warmer. The cool thing about this app is it plays chords (chord mode) and even has a modulation sequencer. It's too bad Korg doesn't make their Monopoly to an Auv3, as another great-sounding analog beast.
If the features and sound is right I’d pay up to that for an iOS synth. I mean Mela, Twin3, Model15, and a few others are already hitting the $30 mark.
I’d love to see Arturia bring their complete set to iOS though I’m not sure what the Analog set would cost. For sure over $100 though.
It's a great app. I used to be able to also use it on desktop, but it's less stable now as an AU on macOS.
iSEM at work, love this synth!!!
One of my favourite IOS synths,wonderful sounds.
I just wish they’d update it as it always seems to crash in Cubasis 3.