Category Archives: Synthesizers

xMod Adds AudioBus, CoreMIDI & Background Audio

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xmod-synthesizerDeveloper Mark Carlotto has updated xMod, an FM synthesizer for iPad, adding AudioBus support, CoreMIDI, background audio and more.

Here’s what’s new in xMod 1.3:

  • Better sound quality and effects!
  • Audiobus compatible
  • Core MIDI compatible – Sends AND receives MIDI including program (sound patch) information
  • Now runs in background mode
  • Fixed file management – can now delete files within app.

The xMod sound engine is a polyphonic triple-oscillator cross-modulated FM synthesizer. According to Carlotto, ‘the complexity of programming FM synthesizers is solved in xMod.”

xMod is available for US $4.99 in the App Store.

Rocket Control Brings Patch Management To Waldorf Rocket

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rocketcontrolSynthesizer developer Waldorf has released Rocket Control, a free iOS assistant app for iPad that ‘boosts’ the capabilities of its Rocket hardware synthesizer.

Waldorf describes the Rocket synth as ‘a superficially simplistic USB-powered desktop synthesizer’, that nevertheless offers a lot of power under the hood. Too keep the Rocket synthesizer’s size and cost down, though, Waldorf had to leave some features out, including patch memory.  Continue reading →