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microTERA or Nave?
I'm gonna get one or the other. Which one would you choose if you had to pick one?
I like that microTERA has a 32 step step-sequencer and an arpeggiator plus effects including distortion, phaser, delay, chorus and reverb.
I've also always wanted to try a Waldorf synth.
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MicroTera is 50% off now, so that might help in the decision. I don't own it, so I can't comment on that.
Both great - get both, you know you want to!
MicroTera has a great sequencer, but Nave has better sounds. I've got both!
MicroTera wavetables into Nave = Much joy?
Nave is a more versatile synth, with a vocoder and text-to-speech, but I love the Virsyn sound...tough call
What kind of sound are you after? Bread and butter type?
I would recommend Z3TA over Nave in my opinion. I use it live. I can't seem to get Nave to give me the warmth of Z. Just my opinion.
Nave has perhaps the coolest interface of any iOS synth, especially when you use blades instead of keys. When the blades are on, it makes you feel like a ninja.
Comparison is the thief of all joy on this (thanks Teddy). Both good. Prefer Nave, but mostly because of the elegance, but perhaps have used TERA more.
Answer: First either and then both.
Yeah I think I might start with microTERA as my first wavetable synth on iOS. The step sequencer looks very functional.
Nave looks amazing and much more elegant for sure aesthetics-wise. I'm sure it lives up to its heritage. Didn't know it had text-to-speech. Makes sense since their new modular hardware has it too.
I didn't like mT at all, but that's just me. Nave is much more to my liking. I can get lost for hours with that and MidiSequencer. Z3ta is also great, and Thor.
microTERA is a waveshaping synth, the waves getting shaped are 3 (or fewer if you choose) sine waves. Nave is a wavetable synth like Wavegenerator and Wavemapper from PPG. Different animals altogether, which for me meant get em both! Nave and microTERA are 2 of the 14 best iOS synths...(14 or so)
Thor, sunrizer, iSEM. I want to check out beep street's upcoming synth, but with the 3 I mentioned I'm not left wanting. Nave just doesn't do it for me, I'm not sure why but I just can't get into it. And virsyn's synths sound very cold to my ears.
I am eagerly looking forward to fabfilter twin in auria with all that being said.
Oh, and gadget. I am loving that app so much, I think all of the synths in it that are supposed to sound great really do, and I like that they limit the options, it lets me get ideas going very quickly.
@mrufino1 yeah, I'm having fun with the midi thing and auxy, lots of fun, but I keep thinking I should be over the street in Gadget most of the time I'm playing....
I am downloading terasynth right now!, more than a few folks here have highly recommended this one to me and I have cube synth Addictive and Micro addictive already and Love em all! Guess I'm gonna be up awhile seeing how it ships with 920 presets!
@Coloobar Thanks, yeah, I think I was confusing microTERA with specTERA.
Get both, decide which you like best afterwards
Wow, I slept better than I have for days last night ! Whoever said I would love Terasynth should have told me how well I would sleep after using it , I would have bought it much sooner. I have yet to really scratch the surface .
@Tritonman Tera's great if you mean the big one, tons of depth, can build some massive sounds once you get into the modular side.
Nave is great too, like a swiss army synth but it has that typical waldorf digital character so not really for typical va sounds or analog emu. I always end up creating evolving pads with it it, the unison is nice and thick and nice fx.
Yes, big papa Tera indeed. I also enjoy Nave a lot! Not crazy about Tera's layout but I am loving the sounds.
Well done on this particular aspect. I know we bitch and moan about aspects of UI and I completely understand about 'not getting' some apps, but I do suspect there are a handful in my quiver that I'm missing out on, or I don't turn to when they might be the perfect answer, simply because while I understand how they function I've somehow taken against them rather than being a bit more professional about it all and just seeing them the for the tools they are...
Drummers are people too, no need to talk about them like that...;-)
Nave is more powerful and, to my ear, better-sounding. Regular Tera sounds better than MicroTera, but I'd still pick nave.
I am chaining it together with DFX and mm , It can sound every bit as good. So much to explore just like nave also! They are both great in my eyes.
Tera is a monster!
I have a lot of love for the little bro microTERA, it's s fascinating synth engine, a thing unto itself, a type of phase distortion, with additive style control over individual harmonics- all modulatable and ready to scream out of control. This one rewards study of the manual.
Nave is one of a kind as well, though it's synth engine is of a lineage more familiar (at least to me)...and also like microTERA a wild animal in its own way (checkout the presets made by some of our AB forum members, take your head off type stuff). Gui wise and otherwise very different instruments, one flat the other skuemorphic, both incredibly smart and original. Did I say get both
I've held off on Nave even though I pine for the speech synthesis, on account of half the reviews saying it doesnt run very well/crashes a lot. Can anyone say whether it runs well enough on a 4th gen ipad? Would be helpful if appstore reviews were forced to include specs...
Works well for me on my 4, but I don't think I push it as much as some of the other brethren. Never been able to really make the voice-thingie work well, but that's user rubbishness more than anything.
Nave runs well enough on my Ipad 4 as well - sometimes get the odd crash.
Here's a song I made a while back using the voice-to synthesis in Nave - I typed in the phrase "How are you feeling tonight" and then played a phrase in key with the song (A minor if I remember right) The vocals come in half way thru song...
https://m.soundcloud.com/bristolmanor/how-r-u-feelin-tonite
@Halftone I like a lot of that melody, but find the 'voice' too rough at the edges for my likely purpose.
Have to say went on to listen to your Orch Vamp and then iAlmaz both of which I liked. Pleasant and disturbing at the same time. Good stuff.
Thanks - agreed the voice does have a little more distortion/ dirt than I'd like. Other 2 songs aren't mine though - ??