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Lots of love for Zeeon
I think Zeeon deserves a lot more attention from users than it gets. I've used it for a long time, and my appreciation for it keeps growing. What follows is not a full description of Zeeon, just a dump of some of my favorite bits, which I hope someone will find enlightening or useful. Let the rambling begin.
--- About the UI ---
I think Zeeon has the most thoughtfully designed UI on iOS / iPadOS. It won't catch your eye with super-cool flashiness, but that's not a weakness. It's a feature, one that apparently results from a lot of consideration for the user. Some of the details are subtle. They don't show up in a bullet list of features. They don't call attention to themselves. Some are not visible, but behavioral.
It's the closest thing to a good old knob-per-function hardware synth I've seen in a soft synth. If something affects the sound, there's a control for it in the UI. Get this: Zeeon doesn't even have a general catch-all menu for sound parameters that didn't fit in the UI -- they're all visible.
It has three pages: Layer 1, Layer 2, and FX. You spend almost no time navigating the UI. You aren't constantly scrolling multiple panes in and out of view, or bringing up and dismissing little sub-views, or clicking among several tabs to get to different components, except by necessity on a small iPhone screen. It's all right there in front of you, and everything always appears in the same place on the screen. That's big. You do minimal searching and get minimal eyestrain. My eyes have a combined age of 128 years, so I appreciate such things. I'm not alone: there are a lot of us experienced, seasoned, wise, and good-looking people right here in this forum.
The UI layout is clear and straightforward. Nothing is hidden, nothing is obscured or encumbered by oddly innovative UI widgets. The controls have very legible, high-contrast labels. Every control clearly shows its state.
The controls have big enough touch areas that you don't have to repeatedly poke at them or resort to a stylus to operate them. (I'm looking at you, FabFilter.)
My favorite thing about the Zeeon UI: The knobs don't jump to a new value when you touch them. That means you can make very fine adjustments to the current settings, as with hardware knobs. For very fine adjustments, drag left and right. You can also just touch a control to see its numeric setting without changing it. Why doesn't everybody do it this way???
Preset banks can be imported and exported without hassle or mystery. It just works, with standard file browser and sharing screens.
--- About the sound ---
Zeeon has filters in the style of Moog, Prophet, and morphing SEM. Without getting into whether it can sound exactly like a Minimoog or a Prophet-5 or a Prophet-6 or a Prophet-600 or a Pro-1 or an OB-6 (do they sound exactly like each other?), if you like what those synths' filters and their other capabilities give you, you'll probably love Zeeon.
If you can't decide on one filter type, you can use a different one on each layer and mix or modulate between them.
There are lots of audio-rate modulations. An oscillator can modulate up to 8 out of a list of 17 destinations, among them the parameters of the filter and the frequency, wave shape, and pulse width of Osc 1. Prophet-like.
There's a morphing LP-Notch-HP / BP filter, as on the Oberheim SEM and Sequential OB-6. As with the OB-6, the filter morphing is modulatable at audio rate.
For more analog goodness there's vintage oscillator variation, variable pre- or post-filter drive with more than one flavor, and even envelope saturation, which softens the corners in the envelope shapes.
In Mono mode, the envelopes do not reset when the note that's already sounding is played again. This is not unique to Zeeon, but it makes a big difference to me. To appreciate this, switch to Mono mode and set long envelope attack and release times. Play and release a note. Before its release time ends, play the same note again one or more times. With each press of the key, the sound will grow louder. Contrast that with synths that reset their envelopes with every keypress in Mono mode, which, in the words of Gordon Reid, sounds like the synth is swallowing its tongue (https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/envelopes-gates-triggers). People don't seem to talk much about this, but I think non-resetting envelopes sound great and tongue swallowing sounds absolutely awful. Many other synths have non-resetting envelopes too, but many others do swallow their tongues.
Zeeon's Voice Number modulation source provides a constant value that's different for each voice, useful for making each voice subtly or grossly different from the others in one or more ways. You can set up controllable, repeatable voice-by-voice variations in oscillator pitch, filter cutoff, or any other modulation destination. It's effective in both Poly and Unison modes. If you want a roiling Tom Sawyer filter sweep (Unison mode), modulate the filter decay time with Voice Number to make the filter sweep timing different for each voice. For more on per-voice variation, see Jason Cooper's site on Voice Component Modeling at https://www.voicecomponentmodeling.com. He doesn't refer to Zeeon specifically, but describes his investigations and technique. (This feature might be starting to catch on among synth designers. The ASM Hydrasynth just got voice-specific modulators in its latest firmware revision.)
The envelope attack, decay, and release times can be modulated. That should be more common.
Now multiply all of the above by two, since Zeeon has two layers. The audio from one layer can even serve as a modulator in the other layer. There's flexibility.
--- Summary ---
Zeeon doesn't look like an analog hardware synth, but its sound and the experience of using it are the closest thing I've seen in software. I'm spoiled.
So what do you think, forum members? Is there any other synth on iOS that has so many things so very right?
--- Mandatory Audiobus Forum Statement ---
Since Zeeon comes from the same amazing developer as Drambo, the standard refrain largely applies: "You can do that in Drambo." It's hard to pick just one. Zeeon is quicker and easier, but Drambo is gamechangier.
Comments
I absolutely adore Zeeon! It’s one of my favorite poly synths along with tal-u-no, ob-xd and Sunrizer.
this guy synths
And a usable little sequencer!
Plus it’s made by beepstreet, same pedigree as sunrizer and Drambo (to just name two). What’s not to love?
Edit: ok I didn’t read till the end
Zeeon is the synth that most feels like hardware to me, rock solid functions, sound and UI
Zeeon + Combustor
Just a suggestion (try not to break the fabric of reality, though)
And the sound of that thing!!!!
Love Zeeon! Sounds great and very immediately tweakable with the simple layout, but there’s quite a bit of hidden depth with the mod matrix. I use it a lot as an AU plugin in Ableton too, works great.
Zeeon is incredible, sounds so alive and… electric! It’s stunning. Make more patch banks in the store, I will buy and contribute to this masterpiece! Sunrizer and Dagger are also amazing of course.
Is there a web site that keep track of app usage? It would be interesting to see the info on au app usage. Which synths are used more than Zeeon? Also can you give a breakdown on most used AU by continent?
Make sure you get all the free patch banks Too.
I think it still has love, it’s just been out for a long time. There are so many apps continually coming out, it’s not always mentioned in the present as much. It’s been discussed a lot in past threads, and always gets some recommendations when mentioned. I still use it regularly. Great synth. The ui is phenomenal. I really appreciate some of the info, ideas, and details you provided too. Cheers.
Here’s some free patches for Zeeon.
The Audiobus Forum 264 Patch Community Bank
Red Sky Lullaby free pack
Nooniens free pack
Keenan free pack
There’s some more out there too some free, some paid. I searched the forum to find these. Cheers!
Ps. if you like Zeeon you will also love Dagger. Not the same, different synth, but a similar ui, and it’s amazing analog sound, albeit different sounds, it really roars.
+1 to this, Zeeon still blows me away with it's sound, power, and fun experience. It's a go to for sure.
Yea basically iOS synth hall of fame.
Don't think Apple gives access to that kind of info to anyone. I could be wrong but pretty sure I remember this from a previous thread here.
Zeeon indeed seems one of the greatest synths on ios. But only for people who make music in 440hz tuning I guess, because I can’t find any master tuning adjustment.
I always thought I’d be happy to buy a hardware version of Zeeon. Even if it was basically a vst in a box.
So only 99% of people?
Zeeon is my go-to synth when I create Ambient.
What are you trying to say here exactly?
Why should an extremely creative tool be limited in such a way that should be pretty simple to implement?