Just when you think things are going to get quiet for the end of the year ... Then someone brings out what looks like a totally amazing synth!
TC-11 is the fully programmable, professional multi-touch synthesizer for the iPad. Choose from the 64 included presets, or build your own using touch controls, device motion, and on-board modules. Create music with the next evolution of synthesizer control!
FEATURES:
- 64 built-in presets
- Unlimited user patches
- Fully controlled by multi-touch / device motion
- 21 modular synthesis objects
- 22 oscillator waveforms
- 3 controller modules: AHDSR, LFO, Sequencer
- Email custom patches to your friends
- Full display customization
There are no on-screen knobs, keys, or sliders to fiddle with; all synthesis is driven by your multi-touch performance. Touch relationships like distances / angles / timings perform all the controller functions. It's just you and the full screen multi-touch performance area.
EVERY synthesis parameter can be controlled by ANY multi-touch controller. The patch possibilities are limitless!
DEVICE MOTION CONTROL:
Use the iPad's accelerometer, gyroscope, and even the compass to attack your synthesis patch! Tilt and move the iPad to change any filter, effect, or module. You can create real vibrato by moving the iPad during performance, or change the speed of a sequencer by tilting forward and backward!
SYNTHESIS:
TC-11 has 8 voice polyphony for full, real-time synthesis. The audio engine has been highly optimized to deliver crisp, responsive performance. Choose from 22 oscillator waveforms, 3 oscillator types, 3 filter types, 4 unique effects, amplitude modulation, and panning control.
Fully programmable AHDSR, LFO, and sequencer modules make TC-11 the most capable iOS synthesizer in the world.
Use TC-11 in your band during live performances. Add TC-11 into your laptop orchestra. Experiment and create with the next evolution of synthesizer control!
Download the complete user guide to read more:
http://www.bitshapesoftware.com/instruments/tc-11/tc-11-user-guide-1.0.pdf
The app is priced at $29.99
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22 comments:
Why no audio or video previews. An expensive app by comparison to all others.I always get suspicious with this,
No audio or video previews for one of the dearest apps out there. Either they have something to hide or a very very bad launch PR wise
$30. I'd really like to see a video demo first. Anyone found one?
Oh and btw devs if you are reading this. The Swedish localization in the AppStore will NOT help you sell any copys. Better go with the English one. :)
Anyone wanna take one for the team (TOFT from here on out) hah! :)
This app is exceptional and well worth the price, I have asked the developer to post a YouTube and likely discchord will too. You can read my review here
http://evolutionaryarts.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/tc-11-review/
This app makes animoog look like a beginners synth and I do not say this lightly, once you see the videos you'll understand. I have also requested developer to send Ashley a code for this so he can tell you also.
This IS the most futuristic app to ever hit the store andan extremely advanced synth. Just wait for the videos then you will see.
Ultimately it is a multitouch synth like no other and the price is justifiable by what it does, also go to app store and link to the developers site via the app page and see the screenshots
Check my review
http://evolutionaryarts.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/tc-11-review/
I got this today from the Dev, it makes animoog look like a toy and no offence moog, but you just been served extreme one upmanship
Serious multitouch synth with serious tweakability...told Dev to send Ashley a code so he will tell you too
Loads of free updates including record, acp, likely virtual midi following soon
It is the app from the future, videos coming soon so eat till then, highly worth twenty quid
And Dev just told me he has nearly finished a video so not long to wait..
Gift it to me, your friendly neighborhood formal, and I'll gladly test it out for ya'll :)
Agreed, bit too spendy for impulse buy with no proper demos. Kinda came out of left field too.
I found his vimeo web...not a video of this synth..but..
http://vimeo.com/9238840
and..
http://vimeo.com/9235528
Hi all - this is the developer. Apple approved the app a bit quicker than I expected! I finished a demo video minutes ago - just went live. You can watch it here:
http://youtu.be/qkko4fBwHmY
Hope you guys love it.
He have a youtube video too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkko4fBwHmY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This app is
AMAZING guys.
I know you know me...I am always around. This thing is massive. Imagine taking crystal synth and pairing it up with Reatable.
Or better yet. Think of apps like dingsaller and Jasuto yet all those synth modules you wire up you then get to choose what will set them off.
Say you build a synth with a square wave,you can set up the filter,amp,AHDSR,and then tell each parameter what you want them to react to.
You can tell it almost anything. How fast your finger moves. How many fingers it takes to set off the release. What direction your iPad faces to make the cutoff work! Yes,for iPad 2 and iPhone users you get gyro and compass mapping.
There are also module controls for static changes if you don't want your fingers to set off synth controls. There are standard waveform LFO's and a 128 parameter step sequencer!
This is the app I have been building in my head for months. It is a bit deep though. The user guide is written very clearly and the 64 presets allow duplication so you can just get right in and modify what the dev already has built.
There are 3 filters in the main section and then there is a void,below the line there is and effects module that has 3 more sets of filters plus bit crusher,wave shaper ,resonator,too much.
It is a basic synth though. It uses tries and true wave forms that any synthy would know,square,sine....so no mystery there. It's not a synth that is going to make some sounds never before heard in this world. It's really the way these "normal" synth parameters are put to work that really gets this app where it's going.
The ability to patch together a synth,not with cables,but with your fingers. I don't mean touch here to connect synth there type touching. I mean. Normally you patch a modular synths cables to make sounds. Now you take your patch cables and replace them with your fingers. So instead of plugging in to make a sound change you tell the app that the distance between finger touch 1 vs finger press 2 will patch the synth to.....hope you get where I'm going.
It is 8 voice polyphony so it will read 8 touches. Each touch can trigger a oscillator and each touch can have a command to each modual.
The performance page is the touchscreen area with colors and flashing and all the cool stuff. There are other pages you go to that you use to set up you "synth" and you "patches".
Yes this app is $30. Yes it is worth it. It is about the same quality as the animoog without the signature Moog sound. The sounds you create will be more traditional FM/subtractive/additive style that many modular synth lovers will be accustom to.
I know I wrote a lot. You guys asked for someone to take one for the team. Well here you go. This is such a deep and amazing thing to see on the iPad it blows my mind. Even if all I can get it to do is make a few bleeps and bloops the fact that this app has been designed is stunning.
The app has 64 factory presets that show you how to get things going and some of the sounds are very sci fi and out there. This app would be great for sound design or tinkerers or synth heads in general. It's not quite as "user gratifying/instantly gratifying" as Animoog but the real treat is the fact that everything can be controlled by everything and everything is controlled by your finger,gyro,accel,compass,step sequencers,LFO.
If this "story" isn't long enough for you feel free to check out the 100 page user freindly(newbie freindly) user guide.
Expect you tube and sound clips up shortly!
This app is
AMAZING guys.
I know you know me...I am always around. This thing is massive. Imagine taking crystal synth and pairing it up with Reatable.
Or better yet. Think of apps like dingsaller and Jasuto yet all those synth modules you wire up you then get to choose what will set them off.
Say you build a synth with a square wave,you can set up the filter,amp,AHDSR,and then tell each parameter what you want them to react to.
You can tell it almost anything. How fast your finger moves. How many fingers it takes to set off the release. What direction your iPad faces to make the cutoff work! Yes,for iPad 2 and iPhone users you get gyro and compass mapping.
There are also module controls for static changes if you don't want your fingers to set off synth controls. There are standard waveform LFO's and a 128 parameter step sequencer!
This is the app I have been building in my head for months. It is a bit deep though. The user guide is written very clearly and the 64 presets allow duplication so you can just get right in and modify what the dev already has built.
There are 3 filters in the main section and then there is a void,below the line there is and effects module that has 3 more sets of filters plus bit crusher,wave shaper ,resonator,too much.
It is a basic synth though. It uses tries and true wave forms that any synthy would know,square,sine....so no mystery there. It's not a synth that is going to make some sounds never before heard in this world. It's really the way these "normal" synth parameters are put to work that really gets this app where it's going.
The ability to patch together a synth,not with cables,but with your fingers. I don't mean touch here to connect synth there type touching. I mean. Normally you patch a modular synths cables to make sounds. Now you take your patch cables and replace them with your fingers. So instead of plugging in to make a sound change you tell the app that the distance between finger touch 1 vs finger press 2 will patch the synth to.....hope you get where I'm going.
It is 8 voice polyphony so it will read 8 touches. Each touch can trigger a oscillator and each touch can have a command to each modual.
The performance page is the touchscreen area with colors and flashing and all the cool stuff. There are other pages you go to that you use to set up you "synth" and you "patches".
Yes this app is $30. Yes it is worth it. It is about the same quality as the animoog without the signature Moog sound. The sounds you create will be more traditional FM/subtractive/additive style that many modular synth lovers will be accustom to.
I know I wrote a lot. You guys asked for someone to take one for the team. Well here you go. This is such a deep and amazing thing to see on the iPad it blows my mind. Even if all I can get it to do is make a few bleeps and bloops the fact that this app has been designed is stunning.
The app has 64 factory presets that show you how to get things going and some of the sounds are very sci fi and out there. This app would be great for sound design or tinkerers or synth heads in general. It's not quite as "user gratifying/instantly gratifying" as Animoog but the real treat is the fact that everything can be controlled by everything and everything is controlled by your finger,gyro,accel,compass,step sequencers,LFO.
If this "story" isn't long enough for you feel free to check out the 100 page user freindly(newbie freindly) user guide.
Expect you tube and sound clips up shortly!
Video demo up now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkko4fBwHmY&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkko4fBwHmY&feature=youtube_gdata
Alright so I'm an app junkie so I went in. Bottom line is it's cool but for $30 it's no animoog. The sounds are good, obviously a very versatile synth. The control surface is unique and expressive, sometimes I move my hand in such a way that it sounds like I'm pulling a bow across a string in that lifelike way that yumi-synth does. And orientation, accelerometer, compass controls.... Very deep and expressive.
OK thats the good stuff. Here's the bad: it's all a big potential right now. I can see how it can be good, but the patches just aren't taking advantage of how natural this thing might sound. I feel like they went for weird instead, so it's spacy sci-fi uselessness. The expressiveness is hidden amongst whooshes that anything could make. There's no clarity of purpose.
OK what else... So let's try to make a patch. Good Luck. Lots of parameters, but presented so dryly, I can't tell what is what. And because i can't tweak params and play at the same time, it's a bit like flying blind. there's a total disconnect between playing and designing sounds. What more... The interface is graphic design fluff. Very pretty, but I'm not sure it's giving me the info I need.
As for playing, one would think that a melody were possible, but none of the patches seem to give me the ability to play the notes I want. It's all in the sequencer, performance just triggers notes preselected.
But the worst by far is the the lack of audio file export, recording, midi interoperability, nothing, zilch. This is a noise maker only.
Ok said some bad things, but I want to end this well. This is obviously a very deep and powerful and versatile synth engine. It is obviously a next-level hyper expressive performance device. It will definitely be worth the money someday. But the developers need to address audio recording, midi interoperability, and most of all a method to design sounds and hear as I'm designing in a live tweak-by-tweak process. The graphics are nice, but they're just not telling me anything. Developers, you have gold here, dont drop the synth engine, just let us use it in an easier way. I would like to thank them for this brilliant work of art and encourage them to keep going.
If I got any of this wrong I want to hear about it, after all I just got the thing and maybe I just need some more time with it.
Alright so I'm an app junkie so I went in. Bottom line is it's cool but for $30 it's no animoog. The sounds are good, obviously a very versatile synth. The control surface is unique and expressive, sometimes I move my hand in such a way that it sounds like I'm pulling a bow across a string in that lifelike way that yumi-synth does. And orientation, accelerometer, compass controls.... Very deep and expressive.
OK thats the good stuff. Here's the bad: it's all a big potential right now. I can see how it can be good, but the patches just aren't taking advantage of how natural this thing might sound. I feel like they went for weird instead, so it's spacy sci-fi uselessness. The expressiveness is hidden amongst whooshes that anything could make. There's no clarity of purpose.
OK what else... So let's try to make a patch. Good Luck. Lots of parameters, but presented so dryly, I can't tell what is what. And because i can't tweak params and play at the same time, it's a bit like flying blind. there's a total disconnect between playing and designing sounds. What more... The interface is graphic design fluff. Very pretty, but I'm not sure it's giving me the info I need.
As for playing, one would think that a melody were possible, but none of the patches seem to give me the ability to play the notes I want. It's all in the sequencer, performance just triggers notes preselected.
But the worst by far is the the lack of audio file export, recording, midi interoperability, nothing, zilch. This is a noise maker only.
Ok said some bad things, but I want to end this well. This is obviously a very deep and powerful and versatile synth engine. It is obviously a next-level hyper expressive performance device. It will definitely be worth the money someday. But the developers need to address audio recording, midi interoperability, and most of all a method to design sounds and hear as I'm designing in a live tweak-by-tweak process. The graphics are nice, but they're just not telling me anything. Developers, you have gold here, dont drop the synth engine, just let us use it in an easier way. I would like to thank them for this brilliant work of art and encourage them to keep going.
If I got any of this wrong I want to hear about it, after all I just got the thing and maybe I just need some more time with it.
@mike szabo
Thanks for your comments. I'd like to address a few of the issues:
Re: feedback while programming. I agree! I'd like to add a 'preview' button to the Patch view so that an automated performance will play while you edit your patch.
Re: recording. It is in the works. To be honest, I was a bit naive about the community's love of in-app recording. I'm a dinosaur that still uses a desktop DAW to do my recording. :)
Re: melody playing. The included presets were meant to show some of the 'new' performance capabilities of multi-touch control. When I showed the app to people, the patches they liked the most were the 'stretchy' ones, so forgive me if they're a bit spacey. I was thinking of doing a little X-axis melody player video just to show people that it is possible.
Re: graphics / display. Big challenges here. Controller display is tricky because the same controller could be used simultaneously by multiple synth modules. As in, how do you show the sequencer position when it's currently at 9 different positions? I've got improvements in the works, but feedback from you all is very useful.
With all of these issues, I completely welcome user feedback. If you have a design improvement idea, please pass it along to me. You can have a big influence on the trajectory of the app.
Also, small correction, but it's just me. It's not developer"s", just developer. :)
Fair play Bit shape for coming on here and giving your side. I should apologize, I hear you were caught unaware by the app store process and didn't have any vids up, even so these should have been up weeks ago to garner interest . I really dont think €25 is a huge amount of money for a new and revolutionary app BUT your launch was marred by lack of info. I would get making vids to show what this does quickly to keep momentum. I would definitely purchase given more substance.
Question, does the seq sync to incoming Midi clock, if not I would make this a priority, would make this a much better performance tool running in sync with your DAW.
I love this thing! I just left a review on the app store which will likely show later today. Sure it needs a few things, which are coming per the Dev, but this has so much already. Granted I am not a big, "I write all my music on my IPad" kind of guy so I see this as an instrument. The TC-11 makes me think, Eno, David Byrne, David Sylvian, Holger Czukay. It is the IPad's version of the Oberheim Xpander.
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