Imaginando has introduced FRMS (‘frames’), a new hybrid software synthesizer that lets you combine granular synthesis with subtractive and FM.
FRMS – which is available for Android, iOS, Mac & Windows – lets you use up to 4 layers per voice, with any combination of synthesis types.
Features:
- 3 synth engines, 4 layers per voice
- Granular, Subtractive, FM
- 8 FM modes, layers as operators
- Granulate Samples or Live Audio
- Up to 20 grains per layer
- 1 modulation matrix per layer
- 2 EG’s per layer
- 1 filter per layer and a master filter
- 8 voices polyphony
- 4 LFO’s with 5 modes
- Arpeggiator with 5 modes
- Delay and Reverb FX as layer send
- High Quality Sample Bank
- Built-in Audio Recorder
- MPE Compatible
- Ableton Link
Pricing and Availability
FRMS is available now with an intro price of 59 Euro (normally 119 Euro).
iOS price is $6.99. iPad only.
Been checking it out today. More iPad sonic fun. Good stuff.
been playing with it, it is really fun and accessible+ has mpe
wow, this sounds great. Demo’ing immediately to check more of this out. Quite original presets coming outta this.
This one is pure sound design crack! recommend. The UI is a bit confusing with its double panels but other than that,just bonkers. A nice complement to Quanta.
Anyone tried it on an iPad Air 2 yet?
Yep. For a single note 4 layers is fine. For more than a couple of notes, I get plenty of audio glitches. Plugin doesn’t crash though which is good. I was playing with MPE and my Eigenharp and it was wonderfully responsive. Let me know if you have any questions.
I went ahead and bought it. Unfortunately, I’m getting audio glitches playing single notes on 1 layer patches 🙁
That’s unfortunate. I had it loaded in AUM and apart from midimux nothing else was running. Generally I’ve found that my workflow is recording loops and then looping the audio to free resources. I’m not too concerned that I can’t run it fully, I assume that I’ll get a new iPad at some point and I’ll get the my money’s worth and have contributed to people making great music apps.
Dot over the m instead of the i? Pretty soon they’ll be putting diaresis over t and tilde over k, and there will be nothing but chaos. Honestly, these musicians.
In Irish it’s pronounced either W or V.
First softsynth my iPad Air (2016?) chokes on, but even single voice high quality off sounds good. 🙂
demo sounds fab but unfortunately fails to load in live 9.7, 64 bit windows 7
I spent a couple hours doing drones with it yesterday and I really like it. I realized I had to re-enable the high quality parameter in the settings for it to work and have better interpolation.