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• SET SUNVOX TO USE HEADPHONE JACK SOFTWARE

Not as many options as the FM7/FM8 but a lot of real time fun. Throw on a multitouch interface to allow for instantaneous tweaking of all four oscillators and suddenly it's an amazing synthesizer. I also thought I had an 'instinctive' dislike of FM synth sounds, but I just had an instinctive dislike of presets & the DX programming interface. And I bought an iPad Air to run newer things.

many people report that apps & workflows that used to be fine now choke out, you can't run as many apps at once, you get sputtering audio & dropouts, which is basically a deal-breaker for live use. Gadget requires iOS7, and I would think carefully about updating an iPad2 to iOS7. Oh yeah I haven't fucked with that many drum machine apps- I have MoDrum and am pretty happy with it. Note that the presets on all of the above apps tend to be pretty disgusting but that stops mattering pretty quickly.

I used to think I, as a listener, had an instinctive dislike of FM synth sounds (I start to get natively alienated by the chart pop palette right around 85 or 86, for example) but actually wading into the synthesis itself has made me realize I really really love their particular brand of falseness- there's something fragile and poignant about it. It's hard to pick a single favorite but I love SunVox (super versatile primitive interface modular thing by a russian genius, presents itself as kind of chip-tune oriented but it can do just about anything and the way the modules get arranged is very intuitive to me), Synthecaster (controls mimic the layout of a guitar with ability to english individual notes on the fret, fun to make fripp-ish serpent guitar patches), DXi (a japanese guy's classic FM synth emulator), Sunrizer (ridiculously parameter heavy and the easiest one to take presets or blank templates and quickly come up with something deeply perverse), and Magellan for all-around usability and ability to do a little of everything. Most of them have their own onboard recording features but I have audiobus and garageband to make them work together. I think I have about a dozen apps on my phone at this point. The ability to fuck with synthesis while on the subway or walking down the street has been a happy revelation. I couldn't play guitar for most of last year due to a nerve injury and got into ios music making (on iphone, not ipad) as an outlet have had a great time learning principles of synthesis on a bunch of different apps. I'm hoping to get an ipad later this year and will buy the shit out of that. I love the aesthetic design that simulates grimy, stained keys, but then just cut & pastes the same dirt for both tiers of the keyboard it sounds as wrong as it looks: - and everyone's posting outraged about how five dollars is a TOTAL RIP-OFF for something Apple shouldn't have even let on the app store, and if these are the problems then we really are deep into a renaissance I'm more interested in the half-baked, bug-filled weirdies. the big news last month was probably KORG Gadget, a remarkably well designed, easy to use encyclopedia of modern synthesizer presets at your fingertips, allowing you to sound like anyone you already like in less than three minutes. The pace of new app development has slowed a bit, but the range is still interesting.

SET SUNVOX TO USE HEADPHONE JACK SOFTWARE

after years of software being locked in at relatively moderate to high-end prices, suddenly we have this alt-universe where so much of it is so improbably cheap that $50 seems astronomically high, even for a particuarly well-crafted & brilliant one. Yes, the pricing scheme for these apps can be utterly bizarre.