Review: Addictive Synth for iPad

Addictive Synth is an Additive Synth for the iPad, by VirSyn. The depth of this synthesizer is both taunting and inviting. With so many morph and modulation options there is a lot of fun to be had.

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For more information on Additive Synthesis, this guy gives a great tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZKvLnf7wU&hd=1

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Additive
• Aditive
• Adict
• Adictive
• Synth
• Synthesizer
• iPad
• iPad2
• iOS
• VirSyn

[goofparade]

Great review. One other thing, the small letter "Q" wich is directly above F# 1, (lower octave) controls whether a not the pitch will is quantized.. If this is off, any movement on the keyboard surface will make the pitch drift around accordingly. Clik this "Q" to be able to sustain normal notes!

My only critisism of your demo is that patch was driving me nuts after awhile, the arpeggiated one. I would have like you to show more sounds because this baby can make them!

[Discchord]

@goofparade LOL a fair criticism. I had a killer patch designed for the demo, but forgot to save it and accidentally hit that fucking patch-change arrow while jamming out on the X/Y. What you're hearing was mostly default stuff that I used in a pinch. I set deadlines for myself to keep on-task with my various projects and I was coming up on one when I recorded this. I am prioritizing the patch selection a lot more now, as you hear in the videos after this, like the one for Grainbender.

[100DUE]

Man is this better then the FL Studio Mobile?

[Discchord]

@100DUE It is hard to make the comparison to FL Studio Mobile, since that is a full studio (multiple instruments) vs Addictive which is 1 instrument. I personally don't like FL Studio Mobile since there is no way to tweak any of the instruments for interesting sound design, but I would recommend it for people who just want to get into making music fast and mobile. Addictive is better suited to people who like to do mobile sound design and make wild sounds.

[aSimplePotter]

@Discchord Thanks much!! I was apparently having the same trouble as others with the app. I did the recommended workaround and now I'm getting sounds. Now I can get down to business. The rest I can learn through trial and error.

Thanks much again!

[Discchord]

@aSimplePotter Nice! Thanks for letting me know, I'm glad to hear it. Have fun!

[xine44000]

Really cool app, and all the synth need some time to understand ;-)

Just take a look at massive or fm8 to see if it's easier ...

[Discchord]

@aSimplePotter It seems to be related to the mute/screen orientation lock button. There are two people, in that link, with the same issue you had. Did you bind mute to orientation lock? They fixed it by rebinding the button to mute, then unmuting. They were then able to go back to binding it for orientation lock, and the app still worked.

[Discchord]

@aSimplePotter In the bottom right you'll see the X/Y Pad, directly above that is the button for presets. Hitting that should bring up a list menu with lots of silly names. Select: 10 - Pseudo Analog and you've got a solid preset to play with.

Though judging my your next comment, I think you may be encountering a more serious issue. I just checked the VirSyn support forum and they have a fix: virsyn(dot)net/cgi-bin/yabb2/Y­aBB(dot)pl?num=1311545017

Replace the (dots) with .

[aSimplePotter]

@Discchord....BTW the volume button on the iPad doesn't work with this app. Is that according to design? And again, how do you load a patch? Where's the Preset button? When I hold down a key on the virtual keyboard, a small green vertical bar jiggles up and down as if a sound is being generated even though there's no sound. What's up with that? BTW I followed your directions re: relaunching, but to no avail.