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@gavinski_s A worthy contender to steppolyarp with what seems like a focus on playability!

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🟧 BLEASS ARPEGGIATOR: The new Bleass Arpeggiator app is out and it is great - feature runthrough, review & giveaway

I think this will be an EXTREMELY popular release, it’s an excellent arpeggiator with some great features. I have a giveaway for a few winners to win any Bleass iOS app of their choice, details of that are below. First though, some info about the app to get you started, including availability and pricing info, a list of my favourite features, as well as some comments about places with room for improvement.

Desktop (VST3 / AAX / AU): 39 $/€ (intro price till Dec. 4): 29 $/€
iOS (AUv3 + Standalone): 14,99 $/€ (intro price till Dec. 4): 9,99 €/$

🟧 The Standout Features:

It’s MPE - hell yes!!!
Can generate lots of interesting rhythmic patterns and melodic sequences at various octaves and various octave ranges
Rate can be FREE as well as synced!!! This is something you don’t often see in software arps
Multiplier button is a quick way to speed up / slow down a sequence by multiplying or divining the speed. However, it and several other controls would be MUCH more useful if they only changed value AFTER you released your finger. The lack of this affects how flexible this is for live performance
Can filter notes: all notes / only triplets / no triplets
Has a groove / swing function
Has a chord option, can add bass notes, control over how much polyphony there is - fantastic
Easy to jump steps, reverse, ping pong etc
Controls for probability and offset
Your patterns can be reset either by using a midi note as a signal or by setting a rate in beats. Eg if you choose 1 bar the sequence will be forced to reset every bar. You can get the arp itself to reset, and/or reset the lfos and the motion sequencer
Lots of modulation possibilities:
Mod wheel has an adjustable curve and can target 2 destinations
2 XY pads with lots of potential destinations for x and y axes and amount control for each
Keyboard has a scale function, but only has major and minor scales - room for improvement there
2 LFOs, loads of destinations, curve is hand adjustable, only 6 LFO types though, could have more
Has the fantastic Bleass motion sequencer

🟧 Overall:

Absolutely fantastic, will 100% be a smash hit. I mentioned a few areas where it could improve, but it is genuinely a very feature-rich arp. I love that out is MPE - meaning you can have per note live pitchbending arpaeggiation! - and has so many modulation possibilities. Would recommend it to anyone without a second’s hesitation and the price point is perfect, imo, not too expensive, not too cheap.

🟧 Giveaway:

3 winners to win a copy of any Bleass app for iOS, to be picked at random after 2 days. YT and Insta posts will be up later today. There will be one winner each on Twitter, YouTube and Insta. You can find me on any platform by searching for Gavinski’s Tutorials.

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🟧Riffler Flow 5 min silent YT video demo & giveaway

Riffler Flow is the new app by the Riffler dev, aimed at a wider range of genres than the original Riffler app, and based on progressions rather than scales or modes. All details, appstore link, giveaway details of how to win either Riffler Flow or the original Riffler app etc are in the pinned YT comment as usual.

The vid is just 5 mins long, but should give you a nice idea of what the new Riffler Flow app is capable of. I really like it so far.

https://t.co/b069mhJl0v

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@gavinski_s @imaginando_pt Fingers Crossed. How do you like it so far Gav?

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Big Imaginando desktop and iOS giveaway! (See below 👇)

BAM from @imaginando_pt just got released and the reaction to this app during the open beta has been fantastic, with many saying they think it will become their favourite iOS groovebox.

Demo video from Imaginando here:

https://t.co/oJ9JJfDJUS

Appstore link (currently on intro pricing at around $20, which is 30% off btw):

https://t.co/Wjv1lzmcu0

Website and desktop link (also around 30% off - all these links are non-affiliate, for your convenience only, btw):

https://t.co/2yCsRT0iIh

Note that BAM iPad version can host AUV3 instrument and FX apps but can’t (yet?) host AUv3 midi FX apps, though apparently that is on the roadmap. You can also load BAM itself as an AUv3 instrument, fx and midi fx inside host apps like Logic or AUM etc. Note that you can use BAM’s internal instruments, FX and sequencer etc when you use it like that, but you won’t be able to load AUv3 apps inside BAM when it itself is loaded as an AUv3. This is not any limitation on BAM’s part - it’s a limitation imposed by Apple - no AUv3 apps can host other AUv3s inside them when they themselves are loaded as AUv3s.

Note that BAM is available for desktop and iPad, but not for iPhone, and on iPad requires iPadOS 14.0 or higher.

Anyway, now for the juicy part!:

🟪DESKTOP / iOS GIVEAWAY:

I will also run separate giveaways for this on my YouTube and Insta, so you might want to make sure you’re following me on those too, you can find me on either by searching for Gavinski’s Tutorials.

Here on Twitter / X, 1 winner, picked at random tomorrow, can win any Imaginando desktop or iOS app of their choice. Yes, the winner is not restricted to iOS and is also not restricted to getting BAM, any app / plugin / IAP by Imaginando is up for grabs. To have a chance to win:

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@gavinski_s @andreitonescu @LunaLi423073 Yeah, this seems like a really nice blend between embracing “happy mistakes” and expression of the end-user’s aesthetics.

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@gavinski_s @wooji All tools for the toolbox ! I’m still waiting for a killer text to speech app. Do you have a recomendation?

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LINES by @audiothing and @Hainbach101

A Detailed Written Walkthrough, Review & Giveaway

Appstore link: https://t.co/cN7Auqiw3O

Desktop Plugin: https://t.co/76fNDxE5ag

☎️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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SoundSaw by Igor Vasiliev (iPad / iPhone / M1 Mac) Walkthrough - Twitter Giveaway Details are below 👇

SoundSaw by Igor Vasiliev is definitely one of the most interesting apps available for iOS, and perhaps even for desktop as well, in terms of creating complex distortion effects. Appstore link & description, as well as giveaway details and my more detailed commentary on the app are in the pinned YT comment. This video is a detailed walkthrough, tutorial and demo showing you from top to bottom how to use this incredible app. By the standards of Igor's apps, this one is fairly easy to grasp, but I think it's still worth reading the manual or watching a tutorial video as it's not really the kind of app that you can just blindly apply factory presets from since one of its most interesting and powerful features is the envelope follower section. The real enjoyable aspect is in making custom presets for the sounds that you're processing using the app, and also perhaps doing some live tweaking.

https://t.co/81CvUhtQVk

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Giveaway, see below! ✅👇🔥

Come join me and David from @toyboxaudio in the live text chat on youtube in the premiere of my 40-min vid on #Toybox, an extemely cool new synth that draws its mojo from its incredible sound, powerful inbuilt modulation and some #JP8000 #Supersaw secret sauce. It's great for kicks, percussion, basses, leads & experimental sound design.

🎇 GIVEAWAY:
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Price is a low $3.99 on iOS and for desktop - totally FREE!

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@gavinski_s @toyboxaudio Wonderfull! This seems like a really intuitive app and the UI is stunning!

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@Nikolozi Fantastic update @Nikolozi goes above and bevond to make mela the most complete and usable app on ios!

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Mela 4.5 Update — New EQ Band module, Comb Filter and Envelope Follower improvements

Grab the update from the App Store: https://t.co/CPLnvQBhY9

~~ Changelog ~~

EQ Band Module:
The new EQ Band module offers a selection of 2nd order filter types: Bell, Low Shelf, Low Cut, High Shelf, High Cut, Notch and Band Pass. It comes with standard parameters: Frequency, Gain and Q.

Comb Filter Module:
The module has the new Mode parameter which allows you to set the signal delay amount of the delay line in terms of frequency, time or the input Pitch signal. Depending on the type of effect you are trying to create one mode might be preferable over others.

When set to Time mode the Frequency parameter is replaced by the Time L and Time R parameters. These parameters set the time interval by which the left and right channels of the audio signal are delayed. And unlike the Frequency parameter, their value range is linear. Making them suitable for audio effects like Chorus, Doubler and Flanger.

When set to Pitch mode, the delay amount is controlled by the incoming Pitch signal. This mode is ideal when using the comb filter as an oscillator. Simply send short noise pulses on note-on events into the module.

Other Changes:
- Added the Hold parameter to the Envelope Follower module.
- Made internal improvements to the Envelope Follower module.
- Added the Min and Max parameters to the Velocity module. The module will clamp the velocity of the note-on events to the range defined by these parameters.
- The modulator intensity dials now show modulation rings when they are being modulated.
- Added new presets.

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#ThumpOne meets #Gauss, goes rogue, makes a drone

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FingerLab iPhilicorda Mellow Ambient Drone

A lovely emulation of the vintage 60’s #Philicorda #organ
Giveaway, sale & links etc: See Pinned YT Comment

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Just released!: #Artifacts by @ka010

A #Lofi FX app for iPad, priced at $6.99.

Silent Preset / Tweaking Demo (Giveaway / Review in Pinned YT comment)

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Baby Audio #SuperVHS -3 Min Demo

4 Copies of ANY @BabyAudio iOS App to Give Away

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iOS @AudioKitPro Giveaway 🔥:

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#KingOfBass is getting a great reception! Here's a nice short tips vid made by its creator @analogMatthew

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