Grain Science is a beautiful new iPad Synthesiser. Designed for musicians, soundscape artists and SFX engineers who want to go beyond our Sylo Synthesiser, Grain Science is built on similar principles of granular synthesis, but is vastly more powerful.
Use the built-in waveforms, or record or import your own — then use the sophisticated grain engine to create something completely new from them! Grain Science is easy to get to grips with, but offers lots of depth to explore: instead of offering one or two LFOs, almost any parameter in the system can be programmed to vary over time in complex ways.
Using new optimisations available in iOS 5, we can provide two grain units per voice, which you can combine for morphing or complex modulated sounds, then send through a configurable FX chain. Pick any 4 from the collection of FX units (including various types of distortion, high- and low-pass filters, phaser, resonance and echo), and connect them up in any order. Other audio tweaks include soft loop, reverb, glide and supercharger controls, and the ability to affect granular synthesis in realtime (live grainbending).
Also featured are an arpeggiator with both chord and step-sequence modes; Core MIDI support, including "tap & twist" learning for setting up controls; and a customisable performance screen with a collection of XY Pads and wheels.
Rounding it off, Grain Science plays nicely with others: Dropbox, Twitter and email integration are all included, for sharing or exporting your waveforms, recordings of your performances, and instrument (patch) designs.
iPads at the Apple Store
For those that use sylo or samplewiz, you are going to like grainscience. Each patch plays back two sounds that can be looped and cross faded through ADSR envelopes. Effects (and there are quite a few) and parameters can be routed to any of the four xy performance pads, the knobs can be modulated (each has a menu), it samples, supports ACP, core midi, dropbox, it's been running with no crashes, it slices, dices, cuts through a metal can with dulling the blade, etc.
ReplyDeleteFor those that use sylo or samplewiz, you are going to like grainscience. Each patch plays back two sounds that can be looped and cross faded through ADSR envelopes. Effects (and there are quite a few) and parameters can be routed to any of the four xy performance pads, the knobs can be modulated (each has a menu), it samples, supports ACP, core midi, dropbox, it's been running with no crashes, it slices, dices, cuts through a metal can with dulling the blade, etc.
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