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Chromosonic by Mike Gazzaruso (Released)
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6776721923
Chromosonic is a synthesizer where every sound has a genome — and you sculpt its DNA with your hands. Built first and foremost for iPad, it
turns sound design into something you can touch, see, and play.
THE LIVING HELIX
Your instrument is a real-time, Metal-rendered double-helix. Notes ride the strands; seven "genes" — timbre, brightness, resonance, attack,
release, echo and space — reshape the helix as you drag them. Tap a note to switch it off, drag it to change its pitch, drag a gene to morph
the tone. The whole organism responds under your fingers.
MODULATION YOU CAN SEE BREATHE
Double-tap a gene and its modulation atoms bloom around it — depth, shape, rate. Every gene gets its own LFO: free-running or tempo-synced to
note divisions, plus a true sample-and-hold. Dial it in and watch the gene pulse and glow on the helix while you hear it move. No menus, no
patch cables — a living, breathing patch.
GENESIS — DESCRIBE A SOUND
Type a sound in plain words — "warm evolving pad, slight reverb" — and an on-device AI sequences the entire genome for you, then names it.
Fully private; nothing you type ever leaves your device.
IT COMPOSES ITSELF
A generative, scale-locked sequencer improvises melodies that mutate and evolve. Scramble the genome, evolve a patch, breed new organisms into
your own library. Feed it MIDI and it weaves your ideas in.
CLASSIC CHARACTER
A wavetable oscillator that morphs from clean analog through organ and vocal formant to a wavefolded digital edge. A vintage tape echo that
glides the pitch when you change the time, like a real machine. A near-infinite cathedral reverb, and optional glide.
LINK HOST — SYNC TO YOUR MAC DAW
Run Chromosonic as an AUv3 in your Mac's DAW, hit Link Host, and your iPad locks to the DAW's transport — tempo, play, stop — over Wi-Fi.
Zero-lag, phase-locked, any DAW. Your iPad becomes a living modulation surface beside your desktop rig.
BUILT FOR THE STUDIO
- Standalone app and AUv3 plug-in
- 50 factory organisms across ten families
- iPad-first, landscape, made for touch
Note: Genesis (the AI composer) runs on-device and requires a recent iPad with on-device AI support. All other features work everywhere.
Come make something alive.
Details:
Universal: No
Minimum OS version: 17.0
Comments
I can’t keep up…
Whats the Vibe on this one?
Yup… if you search this guy you’ll find he describes himself as an “AI architect.”
Thanks. I thought about Vibeing the looper of my dreams. But then I thought maybe I could sell it. Then I felt dirty so I gave up the whole thing.
Hey folks, Mike Gazzaruso is legit. He published some iOS Synth Making tutorials nearly a decade ago:
https://audiokitpro.com/lets-build-a-basic-synth-with-audiokit/
And wrote the code behind the Rage Compressor in PRO-A5.
The Rage Compressor code was originally a part of a "Rhino" guitar processing app that he wrote the DSP for before AI was even a thing.
Link
I kid but it’s more interesting that the app.
Zero, from what I’ve heard, innovative sounds and a (ahem imhop) pretentious interface…
I’m all for unique, I’m all for plain… but I see nothing of either accessibility, or sound design that makes this app anything other that pretty.
Real link w a demo vid mid-ish page
https://chromosonic.app/#demo
This synth looks like the DNA synth from OP-1 Field. $23 is cheaper than $2300. 😂
The ui looks kinda cool but I didn't feel the demo sold it on the sound. Was hard to see what might really be innovative there. My ears pricked up initially but I got bored quickly, and it came across as a bit of a one trick pony. Maybe that was more the fault of the demo than the app itself, but the visuals, as well as the blurb about DNA, seemed to be 'doing a lot of the heavy lifting', as Chatgpt likes to say.
It seems the sequencer steps are locked to the classic 8-16-24 etc - where are the 3's and 5's and 7's?
Very basic scales supported -
Mike Gazzaruso, if you are reading this...
Thanks for the suggestion, will implement for sure
Thanks for the review and for kind words Mat!
Hi, I work with AI in my daily workflow and I develop not only audio software, but Chromosonic is not vibe coded, although it uses AI features to create sounds and sequences from natural language.
Hi, thanks for you opinion, I’m sorry Chromosonic doesn’t meet your taste. I hope That features I will introduce in next updates will tickle you good vibes.
Hi, thanks for your feedback, new demos coming soon
After reading the blurb, Mike, I'm left with little idea what a 'gene' actually is. Is there a plain language manual for the app that explains in normal audio gear terms (oscillators, pitch etc) what the app actually does, that might make help a potential buyer make an informed purchasing decision? Thnx @mikegazzaruso
I'd really try to avoid letting Chatgpt / Claude write your blurbs btw, as it's increasingly a major turn-off in spaces like this, where many participants are at best sceptical, at worst openly hostile to AI. At least get them to rework it so it doesn't sound so AI.
I really like the idea of adding a prompt to make a patch (if the genesis option is actually that).
I'd use it as a randomizer, except it's a lot less random.
Hi, technical manual is actually in-app and is reachable clicking on Chromosomic logo -> Manual.
Also, I've just added link to download/read user manual on the website.
Thank you
Hi, Genesis AI Composer is exactly what you understood, it generates both sequence and audio genetics (aka: timbre, filter, effects and so on).
Please keep in mind that you need to support Apple Intelligence, so you will need iPad OS / Mac OS (Mac app is about to roll out on Mac App Store) >= 26.
However if you have an OS version < 26 (but > 17) you still can run the full app, except for AI functionalities.
Thanks
Thanks for the clarity. I was thinking of purchasing but am on an older device stuck on older iOS. Totally understand the need for 26 and added the app to my list for when I upgrade devices. Looks rad, best of luck to ya Mike 🤙
Hmm, price $23 now. I think yesterday it was 12 or 13?
Thanks to you!
@mikegazza im glad that you are not defensive and are willing to engage. It makes a faceless (ai coded?) project approachable. And pardon me if I offended. I’m more than a bit wary of apps that seem “overblown”
Price is down again it seems.
I think defensive normally comes when there is something to hide. Seems I was wrong, and this is a well thought out and supported app.
The genetic trigger words caught my attention, but pausing my trigger finger 🙏
No problem at all. I know people can be skeptical when it comes to artificial intelligence.
As I mentioned above, Chromosonic was not created by AI: it has some AI-powered features — Genesis / AI Composer, which forges a sequence or shapes a sound starting from natural language — but everything else is entirely hand-coded.
With great pride, I have been a contributing member of AudioKit — the framework for building apps for Apple devices — since its early versions. In particular, I am the author of the “Rhino Guitar Processor” module and of the originally proprietary R.A.G.E. algorithm, which I gladly donated to Aure and the AudioKit team back in 2017.
And at the heart of Chromosonic, AudioKit is precisely what beats. For me, it was actually quite poetic to use one of my own creations inside another one of my own creations.
Aside from that, I have been developing software for 25 years, and audio software for 15. If you have ever tried audio software from TC Electronic or Behringer, you may have used products where I also worked on the DSP layer and the security layer during challenge/response authentication systems.
I am also an artificial intelligence enthusiast, and I can share my personal view on it: AI is an extremely valuable tool, if you truly understand it and know how to master it.
Honestly, I see nothing wrong with letting someone — or, in this case, something — perform a task when that someone or something can do it better than you or me as humans. Because today, models like Opus and Codex producing impeccable code is not an opinion, but a matter of fact.
And I believe true creativity does not lie in writing code itself, but in solving a problem, or in designing the best possible architecture to solve it.
From my experience, I can say that the real focal point of software development today, within a paradigm that is already changing, is:
These things may sound obvious, but in reality they are not obvious at all.
If you master these three points, then AI simply becomes a tool capable of translating your value into machine language. And that, in my opinion, is how it should be used in software development.
If you would like to take a look, I have developed some plugins — VST3/AU for Mac and Windows — entirely with AI. So believe me, I would truly have no problem saying that Chromosonic was AI-coded too, if that were the case. You can find them here: https://sylfo.store
If you are interested, I can generate some coupons for you so you can try them for free. I would genuinely be happy to hear your honest opinion about them.
In any case, it is always a pleasure for me to discuss and exchange views. There is absolutely nothing you need to apologize for. As I said, I completely understand the skepticism around AI, but very often that skepticism comes from not fully knowing how AI can be used in a healthy, conscious, and well-informed way in software development.
Best,
M
Yeah sorry about that, I was changing price for Mac OS app that is on approval on Mac App store and did confusion changing price to iPad app. Now switched back to 14.99 USD
Thank you very much. I believe the value of a good developer is not only in building something, but above all in preserving and maintaining that value over time.
Thanks again.
Is there anyway to pause the animation of the helix?
Hi, ATM this is not supported, sorry.