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Great call.
I was actually thinking of that one, but forgot it was AUv3. 🙄
I forgot this one and was reminded cause it just went on sale: DRC polyphonic synthesizer from Imaginando. Great Swiss Army knife, can get as simple or complex as you like. The one downside I’d say is the factory presets don’t get too crazy or creative, but I’m not a preset guy. And there’s LOADS of IAP preset banks to choose from if that’s your bag.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/drc-polyphonic-synthesizer/id973055710
Do some of the presets of the Korg M1 have lots of movement in them? These sometimes surprise me in a good way for outside of the box thinking.
Definitely.
I'm a firm believer in most synths being "do it all" synths.
You just need to learn how to use a synth and create your own sounds.
There's a reason why anytime a new synth is released, videos turn up with people doing entire songs with just that one synth for all sounds. Because they can. Because you only need super basic features to "do it all".
Infinite layers and extreme depth for sound sculpting is for people that never release music.
I can't agree with that.
There are all kinds of synthesis and you can't create all kinds of sounds with just any synth. Just try creating FM with a three oscillator subtractive synth that doesn't have FM. Try making a resonator. Try doing some of the things you can do with wave-tables. Try doing realistic strings, or acoustic drum or bass sounds, or a piano. How about some generative patches? I could come up with dozens of examples of types of unique sounds you can't make with just any old synth.
I think the question is about what one synth has the most types of synthesis available.
I perceived the question ehh, the way it was written - "do it all" for basic stuff, leads, keys, pads, "weird fx" etc this is super basic bread and butter stuff that any synth can do.
Any simple synth with a noise filter/option will let you create drums that would work for plenty of electronic genres etc.
Obviously, there are different TYPES of synthesis, but that's not how I interpreted the question - I thought they were looking at the.. music making side of things.
That's what a figured your reading of the question was. I read it ... ehh, the way it was written - to me. 😉
I’ve wondered about this for a long time, and honestly, I still do. For quite a while, I mostly used Bleass Alpha for that. But I’ve changed my mind now, and these days I prefer Yonac Magellan 2, since it has more effects, is lighter, and actually seems even more stable.
Nice! This makes me want to try it
@wim @MonkeyDrummer Do you have an audio or video example where iM1 sounds modern (music or sounds not typical of the 80s or 90s)?
Blofeld. Full stop. Most verstile most complex best sounding AUv3 non-modulat synth on iOS
I should spend more time with Blofeld.
You should :-) Not sure that much people really understand how deep is Blofeld .. amazing filters and not just really great FM modulation between oscillators but also audio rate LFOs - so you can make very complex FM modulated patches from technically 6 oscillators, super sharp precise envelopes, almost anything possible to modulate by anything .. It’s absolute gem.
OK, so people are understanding the OP in differing ways.
That aside, I've never found limiting myself to one instrument to be that desirable from my perspective. I find it easier personally to learn a few instruments, where each one starts closer to attaining a particular sound, than trying to get to any sound desired by bending the one instrument to my will.
So called 'do it all' devices, are often compromised when compared to devices that are designed to master one specific need - imo this is the same for most instruments too
Nope.
I think I'm in the same camp. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. You choose the tools appropriate to the task at hand.
It definitely makes me feel better about having a bulging folder full of synths, and still eyeing up new ones!
I picked up MelodyBud yesterday (a bit like synths, MIDI sequencers all have their own strengths and weaknesses), and wanted a partcular, short clean lead sound. I went through a whole bunch of synth apps in the folder without success, until I tried Continua - not one I use that often - and very quickly was able to create the sound I was hearing in my head.
There's an arguement of course, for learning how to get the right sound with a limited set of tools, but sometimes switching to a different app and UI, inspires you to create something better and quicker, than slogging away on the same old instrument.
I have a similar thing with guitars. When I play my guitar, I come up with the same old boring riffs and chords that I always play. But when I pick up a different guitar, maybe a friends acoustic, I come up with a whole bunch of different stuff. It usually goes a bit jazzy.
So I'm still buying new synth apps, and why not - since they're relatively cheap - certainly compared to a room full of guitars!
This is my impression too. Things that come closest to one-size-fits-all are Synthmasters 1 and 2, Obsidian in Nanostudio 2, Drambo, and perhaps miRack.
But I prefer to have multiple synths that excel at what each does at the ready for whatever purpose I need them for. Much easier on my brain for me personally. Ymmv.
I think that 90% of the time when someone buys a new synth they are really just buying presets. They hear a demo and think, ah, here's the synth that makes the sound I want---but rarely will it be some unique thing about the synth that produces that exclusive sound. If your synth has a couple oscillators with a few waveforms, a filter or two, an ADSR envelope, it can probably make almost any sound you want it to make, if you learn how to synthesize. Or, another good option is to just get more presets for the synths you have, which is probably cheaper than buying a new synth.
So I feel like there are a couple ways to approach synths. Like two examples in this thread are Synthmaster 2 and DRC. The former has thousands of presets, and it definitely covers a ton of ground. You could spend ages just flipping through presets and selecting favourites. But I find it a bear to work with, I think it's unintuitive, I hate making patches for it. On the other hand, DRC doesn't come with a ton of presets (although you can buy IAP), but it's so easy to make your own. It's not that it's a super simple synth, it's complex enough, but the way it's designed is really great. So learning it can be really rewarding, because you start coming up with your own sounds pretty quickly.
(One big difference between synths is built-in FX. But if you have AU effects that you like, you can live without FX in the synth itself.)
@timfromtheborder
That “SynthMaster DRC comparison is spot on, well said. Hoping the unintuitive nature of SynthMaster gets addressed in 3 🤙
Synthmaster 3's UI is more or less the same as Synthmaster 2 from what I've seen.
Ratfarts
Easy-to-understand requirements knocked off all of my contenders, haha. 🤦♂️ But there is one that is versatile enough, with a huge preset library (the most advanced on the platform), fantastic for the touch screen, and light for the CPU:
Sugar Bytes Factory!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/factory-modular-synthesizer/id1458743434
Hadn't heard of this, but love the layout.;
I wouldn't call Factory light on the CPU. It is amazing though.
Well, it's light on my M2. It will feel like a breeze on the new M5. 😅 It's reasonable to compare its CPU usage with other comprehensive synths, not just in general.
Fair enough. I realized after posting that I’m running it on my 2018 iPad Pro, which might not be a fair test.
Factory is one of those synths that I bought when it came out and then forgot about. Clearly a mistake - it is probably has the most over-looked feature-packed capabilities of all the apps I have, and I should set aside Factory and maybe some other apps to focus on digging deeper into and see what I can do with it.
However… “huge preset library”? I don’t see presets sold from within the app. Do the presets sold online for the desktop market (apparently) work on the iOS version? Is it a pain to get presets into the iOS version?
The app already comes with tons of factory presets. That's what he's referring to when he says 'preset library', I'm pretty sure