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🔥 BLEASS NEWS AND iOS GIVEAWAY (details 👇)​

Bleass Fusion iOS version now correctly supports import of wavetables by copy pasting within the Apple Files app. This was supposed to be available in the release version but there was a bug, now fixed.

The folder to paste to is located in iCloud / BLEASS Fusion / Tables

Note: the correct file format compatible with BLEASS Fusion is .wav, mono, between 1 and 256 waves per table, 2048 samples per wave

🟠WALKTHROUGH

I really like this app.

Check out my detailed spoken walkthrough on it here:

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LINES by @audiothing and @Hainbach101

A Detailed Written Walkthrough, Review & Giveaway

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☎️Giveaway Details are at the bottom of this post

Lines, by Hainbach and AudioThing is described on the App Store as an experimental multi-feedback synthesizer. You load it as an FX app and it can process audio that you put into it but it can also produce sounds completely on its own - It can be an experimental synth based on feedback, for making rhythms, pulses and organic sounds. It’s available for Mac, PC, Linux, iPad and iPhone / iPod. 

What is Lines based on?

Lines is based on a very rare bit of hardware - The Axel Line Simulator, made in the 1970s in Jamaica, New York by a company called Axel Electronics. This was never intended as a piece of music gear! It was used to simulate signal loss over telephone and data lines. That's the original function of all these different parameters like jitter, noise and so on. 

Where it really came alive for Hainbach, after he bought it on eBay, was when he experimented with routing the unit's output back into the input and was blown away by the kind of crazy stuff that came out of it. In essence, using it this way is a kind of #NoInpoutMixer setup.

What’s New?

This original sound has been carefully modeled, but they've also added features. The most important is the feedback section - in the original, feedback would have had to be done by using a cable from the output to the input. Here you simply increase the feedback amount, which also has a low pass filter added inside the feedback path. There’s a built-in limiter too - though it is pre-Output, so I strongly recommend using a limiter after it.

Other additions included giving the frequency shift section a bigger range, adding fine tunable filters, an extra filter in the feedback path, the pulse sequencer, as well as the modulation possibilities of the trip section and sync options for timing that were not in the original. 

Some Menu Section Features

It's really fun to go through the presets but actually you can really get even more value from them by using the parameter lock up in the menu. This will lock certain parameters not only when you're using the randomizer but also when you're changing presets. Also in the menu settings there's a thing called diode temperature drift. This enables or disables a modulation of the internal diode temperature for the second harmonic distortion section. 

UI Walkthrough

Lines has 10 different sections:

pulse sequencer

feedback section

noise section

jitter section

frequency shift section

nonlinear distortion section

line selector

trip section 

momentary buttons 

master section

UI Walkthrough

Let's walk through these sections pointing out a few details. 

On the top left we have the Pulse Sequencer. We turn individual steps on or off with these switches. Length controls the length of the sequence. Volume controls the pulse amplitude. Trigger allows us to switch between free and synced mode and Rate controls the speed of the sequence. 

In the Feedback section, Feedback controls the amount of feedback. The low pass filter controls a low pass filter in the feedback loop. 

In the Noise section we can turn on noise and control the level with the Level button. With the Envelope switch, we can make it so that the noise will only be activated when an input signal is passing through. 

In the Jitter section, DEG means degrees and it controls the amount of phase jitter in degrees. FREQ controls the frequency of the phase jitter. So what is phase jitter? This is a periodic variation, or ‘jitter’, of the phase of the signal. In other words, it's basically playing with the shape of the waveforms. Note that it affects the input data, so if you're just using lines on its own to produce sound, this section won't do anything. 

In the Frequency Shift section, Polarity determines whether the frequency will be shifted up, that's the plus sign, or down, the minus sign. Hz controls the amount of frequency shift in Hertz, Leakage controls the amount of original signal bleeding through. 

In the Non-Linear Distortion section, 2ND controls the amount of the second harmonic distortion, 3RD controls the amount of third harmonic distortion, and Polarity sets the phase for the third harmonic distortion, either inverted (minus symbol), or non-inverted (plus symbol). 

The Line Selector selects four different filter configurations, Width controls the width of the filters, and we can control the Q of the high-pass and the low-pass filters. 

In the Trip section - a built-in modulation section - we can select from various waveforms, Speed controls the speed of the waveform, and the other knobs are to control the negative or positive modulation of various parameters in the app.

The Momentary Buttons are performance controls - Phase Hit temporarily inverts the phase of the input (or generated) signal. Amp Hit temporarily increases the volume of the signal and Amp Drop temporarily decreases the volume of the signal.

The Master section has a switch to turn the limiter on / off, as well as level knobs for Input, Output and Mix.

VERY important! : Note that the Input knob will - of course - alter the sound dramatically when you have the feedback level turned up, even if there is no external input audio, since the feedback knob acts like a cable connecting output back to input. 

Review & Closing Thoughts

I like this VERY much. The clicks, resonances and feedback have a lovely tone to them. The UI is gorgeous (even though the iOS app doesn’t offer anything ‘touch-forward’ in the UX). It is capable of generating a huge variety of interesting sounds, even without any input. As the manual says, as an effect it can generate lo-fi telephone sounds, phasing, distortion, feedback, ring modulation and frequency shifting. Even without any input, it can be an experimental synthesizer based on feedback, capable of generating a wide range of rhythms, pulses, and organic soundscapes. The combination of the powerful parameter lock feature combined with the randomizer can lead to really interesting results. 

I do - as always - have a few suggestions for improvement:

1. I find on the iPad that the Frequency knob responds a bit too sensitively to touches - I hope this can be optimized. I sometimes find it hard to make very fine changes accurately.

2. Note, as mentioned that the limiter is pre-output. I highly recommend using your own limiter after this app to prevent sudden volume spikes above 0dB, This is not a problem at all, its just worth mentioning as a warning. Almost any host app will have limiters among its built-in tools.

3. I don’t like a certain aspect of the preset system - if you want to scroll through presets, the interface is completely obscured. A normal system using left / right arrows to the left and right of the preset name would be vastly preferable for me. Also, currently, the Save button for presets and the randomize button are unresponsive at times, on my iPad, at any rate. I am sure this will be easily fixed though. 

4. While the Trip Section is cute, I would prefer an internal modulation system that allowed you to pick more modulation destinations - for example, I really miss the lack of ability to modulate the pulse sequencer rate. Not a big deal, as you can I use an external LFO, but it means that you have more limited options for preset design than would otherwise be possible. 

5. With the sequencer, I would love to have a way to adjust the timing of each pulse slightly, would like to have some kind of offset feature, maybe some swing options, and maybe some kind of mutate function. It’s a very basic sequencer. Here a bit more of a departure from the original hardware would be welcome.

6. I wish it had undo and redo buttons - because these are always useful with a randomizer

Overall though, I highly recommend this for lovers of the weird and experimental, it‘s an instrument you can get lost in for hours.

🟪GIVEAWAY:

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