^ Yeah. Love it how you type in the text for the speech synth like in a text message on the iPhone (with the standard iOS keyboard). What a fiesta for keyboard artists! Next one. Launch sale as well! App info is currently processing and/or the app is not yet fully available for sale on the US App Store. Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel More you can't press out of the typical organ sound. Excellent sound quality. Rotary Cabinet Simulation = Leslie Speaker = Wikipedia. This plus the Virtual-Tube Preamp = sounds more analog than really analog. Highly recommended! Btw (copied from a forums posting) iOS is the CHEAPEST platform for professional musicians:
I bought Galileo the other day at release not really needing a dedicated organ app at all, but I am a serious app-oholic so couldn't help myself! Anyway this synth is really awesome at what it does (which would be organ sounds) and should meet the needs even for organ purists out there (and not just by iOS standards). Great sounding rotary sim and pre amp with reverb, delay, wha-wha and ring mod effects on top of that. And all the effects (including the rotary cabinet) can be used as a modular effect unit in Audiobus which is a really nice bonus.
Galileo is fantastic. Sounds great and has a very large number of editable parameters. Plus MIDI learn. I'll be getting Nave.
Love Galileo to pieces. Been waiting for AB support in C3B3, this is gonna cover my organ needs nicely! Would love to hear your impressions of Nave. Same for Vocallive is any key has it.
Just a reminder. The Nave sale is over in some hours. You should REALLY get it! Links & videos: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2866093&postcount=1139 Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel
Hope you enjoy it. I do. It's incredible. I am Nave. Clearly one of the best synths available for iOS.
Nave is pretty awesome, even if I have to fight my daughter for iPad time! Also: JamUp just had a massive update - update and take a look if you have it.
Propellerheads Reason synth Thor seems to be making its way around the globe right now. Another insta-buy https://itunes.apple.com/app/thor-polysonic-synthesizer/id660195946?mt=8 Description from AppStore Thor for iPad puts the mighty Thor synthesizer at your fingertips. Reason's legendary flagship synth delivers a thunderous sound, god-like sound sculpting capabilities and an innovative, lighting-fast keyboard designed for iPad. Thor is a synthesis playground, a flexible sonic workhorse, but above all, an expressive musical instrument for the iPad. Thor highlights • Play Reason's Thor Polysonic Synthesizer on the iPad. • Load any of the 1000+ expertly crafted synth patches, or create your own from scratch. • Create your sounds using a palette of multiple oscillator and filter types. • Play Thor using an expressive touch interface keyboard with aftertouch and strumming. • Collapse the keyboard to a key and scale of your choice, just like in Figure. • Move your favourite patches from the iPad to your computer and use them with Thor in Reason Thor sounds like no synthesizer you've ever heard before - and every single one of them. Where other synths use one specific form of synthesis and one single filter, the Thor polysonic synthesizer features six different oscillator types and four unique filters. What does this give you? Simply the most powerful synth ever created; an unstoppable monster of a sound generator that utilizes synthesizer technology from the last 40 years. On the iPad, Thor comes with a specially designed interface that's optimized for touch control and the iPad screen. Cleverly designed panels expand and fold at the touch of a button to hide or reveal oscillators, filters, envelopes and more. The app is divided into three main screens: Keyboard, Knobs and Routing. Keyboard mode features: • Piano keyboard with transpose and range control • Modulation and pitch bend controls • Assist function lets you select key and scale to highlight chord notes or to collapse the keyboard to only show the chord notes of the selected scale. • Strum function lets you play arpeggios by holding a chord while strumming across the strum control. • Two assignable knobs and buttons acts like performance controls • Settings for polyphony and portamento Knobs mode features: • Access to all of Thor's synthesis features • Three oscillator slots for Thor's six oscillator types: Analog, Wavetable, FM Pair, PhaseMod, Multi Osc and Noise • Three filter slots for for Thor's four filter types: Low Pass Ladder, State Variable, Comb and Formant • Three envelopes • Dual LFOs • Delay and Chorus • The Knobs screen is divided into panels that expand and collapse at the touch of a button • Miniature keyboard to audition your sounds as you are working on them Routing features • Comprehensive but easy to use routing matrix lets you create complex modulation and signal flow setups • Step sequencer with 16-steps and six channels: Note, Velocity, Gate length, Step duration, Curve 1, Curve 2 General App features: • Patch compatible with Thor in Reason on your computer • Move patches to and from your iPad using iTunes or Dropbox • Sound bank with more than 1000 Thor patches from leading artists & sound designers (Kill the Noise, Richard Devine, Chris Petti and many more) • Gorgeous retina display interface • MIDI in - play Thor from an external MIDI source or from another app on the same iPad • Audiobus compatible - stream audio from Thor to another audio app on the same iPad • Audio in background option lets Thor keep playing in the background when working with other apps. Note: We recommend using Thor for iPad with iPad 2 or later. SOURCE: http://www.ipadmusic.com/
Holy cow, I wasn't expecting Thor (having a 3-week old at home keeps one out of the loop...) I couldn't hit the BUY button fast enough!
Well I think I'll keep back for some time with Thor before I drive myself to the poor house. ;-) There are some not so good comments at discchord.com (anyway most of them are totally blown away by Thor but Nave easily EATS it) and when you look at the pricing activities of ReBirth by Propellerheads (I own it since my PC days and it's great) Maybe in some months then. And the teaser video doesn't really do much for me: Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel Anyway I put Thor on "Want it" @ AppShopper.com. Thor manual
NAVE is simply amazing. We are so spoiled on iOS with these low prices! Thor was an instabuy because 1) I'm voting with my wallet and want to encourage Propellerhead to do more iOS stuff and 2) Thor is like an old friend, I've used it so long - having it just eliminates the "if I had Thor I could do this..." moments. iMini is the same way, I would tend to use NLOG over it, but sometimes the Mini Moog is what you need.
Well Nave and Thor are two very different beasts, with very different sonic capabilities. So one doesn't exactly cancel the other out. Both are easily worth their asking price, but if you NEED both is another question. I need a new iOS synth like I need my rent to go up. But I kinda just see them as new toys to have lots of fun with, like a game or a movie or whatever. Everything doesn't necessarily need to end up in a piece of music so to speak.
That's what I'm trying to figure out. Does Thor fill a hole I am missing on iOS? I'm thinking it does, but I haven't really found too many videos or sound examples. And I never heard of it before the announcement (I never did get into doing music on my computer). But the sounds I have heard seem to be along the lines of somewhat dancey, analog stabs, filtered which I do feel I am lacking on iOS. My hardware has it, but I am attempting to move off my hardware and go all to iPad.
Thesoundroom guy did go through a whole bunch of the 1000+ presets in this video. Might help out http://youtu.be/30M-DRk38WE
Thanks. I watched/listened to that this morning and I was extremely pleased with what I heard. I was fairly inspired by many of those presets and wanted to play them for myself.
Here's a sound bank for Nave I made, only around 20 preset in it so far but I'll keep adding to it over time if there's any interest. I'm no sound designer so..Anyway all free of course and no license mumbo jumbo. I'll just post the link to the Audiobus thread, there's a bunch of sound demos from some of the various presets in there as well: http://forum.audiob.us/discussion/1369/preset-sharing-waldorf-nave
