With a large mod matrix, 2x10 oscillator engines, 4 sequencers and a whole host of connectivity options, Factory for iPad looks like a monster of a soft synth.
Sugar Bytes has released Factory for iPad, which is a modular synthesizer for complex and organic sounds. Free to download, it features in-app purchases to unlock various functions and tools. Here's a video that shows off some of its sounds.
Factory sports a big modulation matrix with all kinds of features to create a wildlife of sounds. A vast array of DSP is ready to play. Analog style oscillators and filters, but also different flavors of wavetable synthesis, Wavetable driven Waveguide resonators and a 3-FX-Chain in a dynamic signal flow. With the Morph crossfader, sounds can be changed drastically, but always musically. The Preset Browser with tags and rating makes finding sounds easy and fun.
4x Sequencers for all kinds of Gates and CV's, incl. 36 motion curves, uni/bipolar.
Arpeggiator, Intonation engine, Scale Quantizer
11 Filter models & 3x Multi-Effect with drag 'n' drop signal flow
Audio Unit v3 & Standalone
Virtual, Network, External & Bluetooth MIDI
Ableton Link
MIDI Learn & Host Automation
Preset iCloud Sync
Preset Share
Price: Full Version: 17,99$ / 19,99€ It is free to download and will have in-app purchases to unlock Audio Unit, Save & Session Restore, iCloud Sync... plus more than 400 presets.
Hollin Jones was classically trained as a piano player but found the lure of blues and jazz too much to resist. Graduating from bands to composition then production, he relishes the chance to play anything with keys.
A sometime lecturer in videographics, music production and photography post production, Hollin has been a freelance writer on music technology and Apple topics for well over a decade, along the way publishing several books on audio software. He has been lead writer at a number of prominent music and technology publications.
As well as consultancy, full-time journalism, video production and professional photography, he occasionally plays Hammond, Rhodes and other keys for people who ask nicely.
Hollin is Contributing Editor at Ask.Audio.
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