Sketch Synth 3D 1.4.0
Device: iOS iPad Only
Category: Music
Price: $32.99 -> $9.99, Version: 1.4.0 (iTunes)
Description:Sketch Synth 3D is a 3D workstation for drawing music and visualisation, the visualisation and synthesiser are tightly integrated to ensure that they are controlled by the same drawings and exhibit a psychedelic effect. You can use it straight away with it's internal samples based engine that lets you draw and prototype sounds; but once you want something a bit more then you can use Midi and OSC to control both your synthesisers and your visualisation / VJ software. You can draw sounds in 3D using a range of mechanisms, whether that be with your touchpad, mouse, iPad accelerometers, Kinect (via OSC) or Wiimote (via OSC). An additional orbital guitar like module takes you away from only being able to do pad sounds, you can use it for doing precise notes and detune it into chords. Once you've created your initial pattern then you can look at creating a song using up to 16 different patterns and 4 colour coded output channels.The internal synth is samples based, it gives you a range of methods by which you can trigger samples so that you could cross fade between synchronised drum loops, or retrigger your sample each time you touch the pad; this way you get the control to be able to work with your own samples and you can use Audio Copy & Paste or iTunes to import your own files (< 2Mb 44100Hz wav preferred).When your song is complete then as of version 1.3.1 you can use the 4XZ view to go back and modulate the FX levels on your 4 channels at once for a full blown sound shaping experience.Sketch Synth does include built-in help; however you really want to be looking at the online pdf documentation to get you started. Even better, a Lite/free version is now available, always try the free version first, with fewer features the lite version is simplified somewhat and so can act as a good springboard into the full version.Just working on an update, hopefully for January, I will be adding a beta of Sketch Synth 2 to this, it will be a modular XY pad system, always 2D but modular, Sketch Synth 3D will remain as is and you will be able to select Sketch Synth 2 from the main menu.
What's New
Added Sketch Synth FX with a couple of sample packs as a bonus for the summer update, I want you users to see this so that you can see the direction I am looking to take for the 2.0.0 release.
Sketch Synth 3D