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Pentaholic Synth by Andrew Strickland (Released)
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6762106586
Pentaholic is a digital emulation of the Gleeman Pentaphonic, a rare polyphonic synthesizer from the early 1980s. Built natively for Apple Silicon, it captures the specific character of the original hardware—its five-voice architecture and unique modulation routing—while providing a stable, modern interface on iOS.
Anti-Paralysis by Design
Most modern sequencers are micro-managers that ask you to draw every velocity curve and nudge every MIDI note. Pentaholic is designed for the initial spark. By maintaining the classic 5-voice limit and focusing on a tactile workflow, it limits your options to the essentials. It removes the infinite possibilities of a DAW piano roll, forcing you to focus on rhythm and melody rather than production.
The Sound Engine
The original hardware was known for its "rubbery" filters and a distinct grit sitting somewhere between a Prophet-5 and a Rhodes Chroma. Through meticulous analog modeling, Pentaholic recreates the exact internal signal path of those five voices using a high-performance, zero-latency C++ DSP core.
Authentic 5-Voice Polyphony: True to the original circuit limitations, complete with a beautifully modeled gain stage saturation that organically overdrives the signal as your voices stack.
Oscillators: 3 DCOs per voice featuring Triangle, Ramp, Square, exact Pulse widths (3%, 12%, 50%), and Complex waveforms, capturing the precise electrical imperfections of the original hardware.
The Filter: A painstakingly modeled CEM 3320 24dB resonant lowpass filter sweeping from 20Hz to 18,000Hz. We preserved the specific bite, instability, and nonlinearities of the classic CEM chips used in the original units.
Envelopes: Dual independent, ultra-snappy ADSR for Filter and VCA (5ms to 5.0s).
The Sketchpad Sequencer
A 300-note polyphonic performance capture system completely faithful to the original hardware.
Real-Time Capture: Records exactly what you play in real-time—pitch, gate, and polyphony—allowing you to commit to an idea instantly.
Dynamic Voice Stealing: Integrated logic lets you play live over your sequences without playback interruption.
Apple Ecosystem Integration
We expanded the control protocols to support modern mobile workflows without cluttering the interface.
AUv3 & Standalone: Seamless plug-in integration with Logic Pro for iPad, GarageBand, AUM, and other AUv3 hosts.
Native MPE Support: Deep compatibility with modern expressive MIDI controllers.
Gamepad I/O: Break away from the screen. Connect a Bluetooth PlayStation, Xbox, or MFi game controller and use it for scale mode with analog sticks mapped pitch bend and modulation and the stick buttons to record and play for the sequencer for a uniquely tactile performance.
Human-Scale Workflow
Instant Reset: Return any parameter to its default state with a simple right-click or double-tap.
Precision Editing: High-resolution fine-tuning via Option+Drag or precise touch controls.
Sequence and Preset Export: Take your idea into the production realm, export or airdrop your sequence to another device. Save and back up your presets for safe keeping.
Global MIDI Learn: An intuitive overlay allows for instant physical hardware mapping.
Offline Manual: Full technical documentation is accessible directly within the app—no internet connection required.
Details:
Universal: Yes
Minimum OS version: 15.0
Comments
Sounds interesting - would be great to hear some audio demos…
I'm uploading some now
The game pad I/o seems interesting
but not available in the free version:(
Ui is janky on my iPhone.
It has the XY wand like the Wavestation, but it's poorly placed and the knobs stick. Sounds kinda harsh too.
Will find a place for some for sure tho because of the price
AUv3 crashes immediately inside AUM trying to load the first factory preset. Another poorly tested app I fear. Wake me up in a few weeks when/if all the bugs have been fixed, yawn....
This may be because the presets are locked behind the iap.... But if so, weird way to deal with it. Surely there should just be a pop-up telling you you need or unlock...
Anytime u see the screen bobble up and down- that's the knobs sticking.
I think it's supposed to sound harsh.
It's an emu, and I reapect the emu idea- so hopeful it get's polished up.
lol, @ settling for a crash.
Can't turn on mpe. The switch just doesn't respond. Again, maybe that's locked. Crazy thing is, you can't even get the info about what's locked, as the description in the app of the IAP is cut off, it's incomplete!
Nah, can't go down another debugging rabbit hole, been down too many of those these past months.
It's very characterful tho, great sounding filter too
It's very characterful tho, great sounding filter too
Actually sounds brilliant, but $28 for the iap, with a UI like this from a completely new developer? I don't think that's gonna fly
Settings not even accessible in the AUv3. You open the app, it tells you to click the badges. Those badges are not even there in the AUv3. Get simple things like this wrong and ask $28 for an iap? Cmon now...
Crashes as soon as you choose a preset in Apematrix. Whatever, we got so many synths already.
$28 bucks… dang
Well, that certainly got my attention.
Well, there can’t be any latency if it won’t stop crashing long enough to actually do anything
I do think that anything that seems like a bug is more related to locked features. But very unwise of the dev not to handle that better. Make it generate a damn pop-up telling you you need the iap to access presets. Don't make it crash the whole app ffs 😂.
And if you're gonna try and charge 30 bucks for a synth on iOS, it really needs a better UI/UX and a more sophisticated feature set.
I just paid $30 for the Synthmaster Player 3 complete bundle. I figure I’ll die before I get through 8000 presets. Makes it kind of hard to consider spending 30 on this. It does sound good though! 😎✌🏼
I would love to have a real Gleeman Clear 😂 💰
Anyone bought the iap? 🤔
I don’t think it’s worth that price given that it’s pretty rough in its current form. IMHO 😎✌🏼
Oh for sure, you won't hear any argument from me on that score. I was genuinely expecting the iap to be maybe $5 max, it's just a very weak ui design on several levels, imo.
Nice little walkthrough of the hardware version:
@Gavinski I was heavily into hardware when the Gleeman was released. I wanted one so badly! (Yes I am old) 😎✌🏼