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Arturia iSEM Synth for iPad - Full Tutorial - Everything You Need To Know - The EPIC Guide
I wanted to make a full tutorial for the much-loved iSEM.
The main reasons were that there are not many tutorials for this synth, it sounds great and, it's all laid out in a bit of an odd way.
Anyway, here it is, I hope you enjoy it and more importantly, it inspires you to dig into iSEM and have a blast at programming the synth.
iSEM was made in collaboration with Rolf Wöhrmann (Tempo Rubato), who also brought us the excellent Nlog Pro & Nave.
Many thanks to @Crabman for correcting me on this important point😊👍
Personally, I think Arturia should have continued its journey with iOS.
Still a great-sounding synth.
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It’s a really great synth and still one of the most “analog” sounding we have to this day. Would love to see Arturia come back to iOS some day. Imagine all the sales if they released their Microfreak VST on iOS 🤩
I have this one for a small week and I am so amazed by its analog sound color. Damn, this is like hardware! Thanks Doug @thesoundtestroom will check this vid soon.
I saw some people here maybe suggest though that apps like Sunrizer might already cover this ground quite well. Any thoughts on that? Cheers!
They have a distinctly different character, imo. iSem is very much going for the that SEM sound and it pretty much nails it. Nothing exactly like it really besides maybe the samples in Syntronik.
And, by the same token, Sunrizer is based on the classic Roland JP-800, you can learn a bit more about that here.
https://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/jp-8000
@Gavinski I love both, but indeed, different character than Sunrizer.
ISem is not from retronyms by the way, that‘s the reason why it was always a great synth 😂 Rolf Wöhrmann (Tempo Rubato) made one of the first serious ios synth with Nlog, now working for waldorf (played a big part in Quantum development as far as i know). He made also the iSpark app but the relation to arturia ended here unfortunately 😢 I think he also made Nave? Sorry, don‘t want to play the teacher here, he just deserves to remember his stuff ☺️
I did use iSem a tonin the past, love that filter design but did not use it for a long time now. Thanks for the headsup, time to pull it out again 👍
@Crabman thanks for the correction, I have edited my original post to reflect this.
You are welcome. What i don‘t understand : Rolf always delivered great support back in the days and isem was one of the (maybe THE? 🤔) first synth supporting AU. He‘s working for waldorf since a couple of years and they still have their apps in the store but no love for them (i would give a kidney for an AU version of Nave). Sure, working on hardware synths is more fun and better payment, but he is such a talented guy, it should not take long for him to update the waldorf ios stuff a little. Anyway, it is what it is… i wish everyone a relaxed sunday 🖖
That’s likely not his call to make though. Maybe he could bring it up to them but I’m sure his hands are tied with other projects.
I’d love to see Nave get AUV3 treatment though. It may be the one app I’d like to see AU the most.
Cheers for the walkthrough Doug,top drawer as always.
I love ISEM but it just won’t sit stable with Cubasis,which seems a common problem alas.
I hope one day it’s updated but seems unlikely now.
iSEM is far and away my fav iOS synth. Hell, the hardware is my favorite hardware one (if only I could afford one!)
Has anyone figured out how to import presets into it though? It doesn’t show up as “open in” or “share” options…
Manual says you gotta connect iPad to iTunes then set a pathway to the location of where you want to import from