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Too much Dirt
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I know we have a decent choice of all types of sounds on iOS, but I we have (imo) had a lot that makes ‘dirty’ sounds of late.
For every beautiful flute, we have ten synths that promote distorted sounds.
Not saying we can’t get or don’t have beautiful sounds on iOS, it just seems to me that the fad of late it grungy, dirty, distorted and the like.
I want more heart warming sounds and instruments, but alas I have always been a few steps out of fashion 
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@fruitbat. I saw that tongue wagging picture of you. You didn't look like an acoustic softie to me.🤔😜
I love acoustic softies! 😎
We need both. They can help each other even inside the same song.
I've reserved the next days for tweaking synth sounds and Zeeon/iOS and a few VST synths from Native Instruments never fail to deliver
I thought Aparillo fell into this category until a few days ago, when I took a couple of hours to properly delve into the presets. There’s a lot of distortion there of course; it is Sugar Bytes, after all. However, this thing is clearly very capable of some lovely rich, warm sounds. Definitely worth spending some time and effort with. It’s probably my favourite iOS synth now. It sounds fantastic (like Model D/15 quality) and is capable of a huge range of sounds. And it’s easier on the RAM than those Moog fiends.
I’ve been feeling the same @Fruitbat1919 Not a fan of noisy music but it seems many Devs must be. I’m a fan of things that make you think, groove or move myself so I like to see more melodic and harmonious tools that give composers like @LinearLineman and @hansjbs the means to extract words out of guys like me.
Could be the weight of current events around me at the moment but I could definitely use more triumphant horns, sweeter flutes, and brighter bells.
Mersenne is a nice pretty sound synth.
Tera can make a lot too.
You can always turn distortion down or off on a ‘dirty’ synth that has distortion, you cannot however turn it up on a clean one that doesn’t
This gave me a chuckle
Agree. More sad beauty less chainsaws Nurse.
PPG Infinite sounds as clear as glass.
For those who want to clean up their music, perhaps you could request such a feature from your favorite developers?
For me, one of the most troubling aspects of humanity is the consistent urge many have to object to and attempt to regulate the behavior of others particularly when they can easily avoid their exposure to it.
Why not focus on what you want to pursue and leave others to their own devices?
A flower equally embraces the brilliant sunshine and muddy dirt, and thus embodies the beauty, strength, and vitality of both... ........(paraphrased from the Tao Te Ching)
Some beautiful thoughts from some dirty minds
Most of the synths can create beautiful, harmonious timbres. Even if the presets that come with synths are not geared that way, you can roll your own.
Yep. The jewel of iOS synths!
If you want it to. Unlike his other apps, Wolfgang Palm added the ability to include inharmonic content to the output of Infinite so you can dirty it up as much as you want.
Yes. But i mean it also can sound so clean. maybe the most clear sound i heard yet in any synth.
It´s so clean i can add 10 cascaded reverbs and it still sounds clear
But yeah, it can get dirty and even it grind!
I like dirty, harmonic-rich music - it keeps me interested as it is not always so easy to decode on first listen. I definitely see the need for cleaner sounds as well, and there’s tons of it out there - NS2’s Obsidian is a very good example of that, as well as SynthMaster one. And for every Klevgrand app that is dirty, there’s two more by the same maker that are extremely clean (sometimes disappointingly so).
@Fruitbat1919 I agree. Not a fan of the "filthy" synths. It's easy and fun to dirty a clean synth with effects, but you can't clean a dirty synth. I had to get rid of Cyclop, despite the really intriguing architecture, because I couldn't get it to sound like the music I wanted to make.
I do like an element of crusty old analog synths, that make them sound animated, and "electric", compared to a pristine digital synth, but that sounds different from today's filthing processes.
Some interesting perspectives here. Some I believe may not have really read what I wrote properly, or have misunderstood, but that aside, I do love reading other people’s perspectives
I blame Junior Barnard..
good one
he started with distorted guitar around 1945, in Western Swing with Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys... the solo
and the full track... if you dare
Looking at this thread reminds me of when my parents would tell me reprovingly that it was easy to make a dirty joke, but a real achievement to make a clean joke. Oy...
I’ve been feeling the same here too. Not my kind of sound
Or perhaps, we read it and aren't quite sure what you were driving at.
Aren’t low pass filters supposed to help with this?
@Fruitbat1919 It’s an interesting question. To play devil’s advocate:
Didn’t we just get the cleanest sounding crop of granular synths yet? Not just Quanta and Spacecraft, but Tardigrain too! I mean, that crop does a remarquable job making it easy to explore the different gentler/prettier sides of granular synthesis. By contrast my beloved iPulsaret is an untamable digital sputter fest.
What about those new low aliasing, cpu hungry analogue modelers like Model d? Aren’t they prettier sounding than more cpu friendly analogue modelers like Kauldron.
I also agree with mention of mersenne above; I’d say we’ve been super well served in the pretty side of FM department. Phasemaker covers that territory wonderfully. So does being able to load up and study classic DX7 patches in KQ Dixie.
Let’s not forget D1! It almost takes effort to get ugly sounds out of that one..
Well put!
Personally, I love the dirt.
Dirt McGirt.
Gritty committee.
Yah!
Ok, let’s break it down:
The first sentence states a decent choice of all types of sounds, so no need to say that we do have other types of sound makers on iOS - I’m stating an awareness of that. Then I’m stating my opinion that of late we’ve had a lot that make dirty sounds - see opinion and obviously you are all free to disagree. At no time am I forcing my view as how others should feel, just stating opinion.
Yes, of course this is more how I feel and not obvious fact. It’s quite obvious we don’t have ten synths that promote distorted sounds per flute released, it could even be more! Lol.
See, clearly saying that we can get and have beautiful sounds on iOS, so telling me that we do or can make them, is just agreeing with what I’ve already said - I’m just saying that it seems to myself that ‘the fad of late’ is....you obviously can have another way it seems to you. Again at no time am I telling anyone how they should think or feel, just saying how I do
The final sentence is just stating my desire and a little tongue in cheek awareness of that my tastes are often not with the times
Discussion and opinions are good. They encourage thought. I therefore like hearing the opinions of others - if people agree or not.
It’s also great that people want to disagree and say why, what or how I’m wrong and state their examples - like synths that have been released that do the sounds I’m after. At least acknowledge I’m aware that these synths exist - I’ve already stated such.
It just seems that sometimes many seem to see offence or malice where none was ever intended. Where at all have I tried to do anything but state my own opinions? I see nowhere in my piece where I am trying to tell others what to do, feel, like or how they should sound - if so, point it out so that I can apologise for my poor writing skills and state that is not my intention.
Remember it’s only an opinion and I will always encourage you to write yours - that’s how we rethink our own opinions - by listening to others! No need to get defensive or argumentative though, your own point of view is quite valid without having to twist mine into something it’s not.
There, just thought I’d clarify a few ideas of what the OP was, isn’t and was never trying to be
Hope you all have a merry Xmas, be it dirty or not