Wolfgang Palm has released details on his upcoming ipad synthesizer, PPG Wavegenerator, including specifications and audio demos.
Key Features:
- Creation of your own waves and wavetables.
- Playful sound creation simply by drawing or picking harmonics
- 3D page, visualization of the wavetables, transformation from photos into wavetables.
- 256 waves assembled within a wave grid
- 3 Audio Oscillators
- 3 Noise generators, for audio and modulations
- Classic 24 dB Lowpass Filter, combined with an overdrive simulation.
- Dual amplifier, for versatile control of 2 audio signals as well as panning.
- 13 Envelopes, for independent control of pitch, waveform, filter and noise gain and panning
- 4 LFOs
- Arpeggiator
- Delay/Reverb effect
- Audio engine with 2 synthesis modes, and variable wave blending quality.
- Directly accessible context help inside the app
- Use a camera, to shoot a picture and then transform it into a sound!
- Using state of the art technologies, but still the versatile and efficient synthesis system.
Official PPG WaveGenerator Description:
PPG WaveGenerator is the latest development from the inventor of wavetable synthesis, Wolfgang Palm. It is a next generation synthesizer, building on the heritage of the PPG Wave keyboards.
The PPG WaveGenerator comes with a multitude of wavetables. The sound material contains the typical sounds from the original PPG wave models, as well as many new sounds generated by versatile analysis tools and also hand edited waves.
This app enables the user, to create his own wavetables in a playful way, and to hear the result immediately. Also you can construct the waves by adding harmonics very precise. Another way is to transform a picture into a wavetable. You can load photos from your album or even shoot a picture with the camera.
The waves are collected in a grid of 256 fields, to which the 3 oscillators of the synthesizer have arbitrary and independent access. In a 3D display you get a visual impression on how the sound evolves. You can turn around the 3D object and zoom in and out, The Parameters of the synthesizer are divided into modules, which allows easy, yet powerful editing. It contains 3 oscillators with independent control of pitch and waveform. Each oscillator has its own glide, which gives a very dynamic sound.
With a sophisticated routing system, the diverse modulation sources can be connected to all important control points. The keyboard is configurable totally freely, so you can setup all well-known musical scales, but also all imaginable custom scales that best fit into your music. PPG WaveGenerator benefits all advantages of the iPad, like X/Y control after the key on event, or two finder gestures for spectrum control. After a key is hit, the tone may be modified and modulated in various ways, just by moving your finger.
A browser lets you sort the sound programs; you can categorize and rate them. Also complete custom sound banks may be created. All significant parameters are controllable via MIDI. There is a built in context specific help for all pages and modules.
Pricing and availability info for PPG Wavegenerator are to come.
Check out the details and audio demos and let us know what you think of PPG Wavegenerator!
Can’t wait to get my hands on this. Hopefully it’s going to be soon.
Me too. This will make my iPad complete. Bring it!
Pictures into sound WTF! This is going to be a good one.
That will be cool for sure! I really like that features are being tailored towards the platform. If the developers look at these comments may I suggest grabbing single frames out of video? It would be very cool to interpolate movement into a few different morphing sounds.
Exciting!
Those are cool sounding demo tracks. Should we start guessing the price? Nah.
Mr. Palm has been innovating for decades. I hope this app is very successful and helps garner him the recognition that he deserves. I will be getting it and don’t care how much it costs.
Sounds great! Really looking forward to this one. And fwiw, I love his workspace.
This looks really cool. I just wish there were more filter types and series/parallel options for them.
Two thumbs down because I simply pointed out that there is only one filter type available? Calm down fanboys.
2 things i would really like to know…
Will it run on an ipad1?
How much will it cost?
I’m an iPad fan, but I hope that developers will support first-gen iPads for several years.
I can live with reduced polyphony, but not premature obsolescence.
In my opinion, the PPG is one of the best sounding synths out there. Love that dirty digital sound through the analog filters. Can’t wait for this one.
Why this app should do what it says (link for the young synthtopians)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Palm
slightly worried that performance recording and audio copy aren’t on the list. Here’s hoping that they’re basic features and just not mentioned rather than absent.
But will this allow me to make sick,chart-ready beats for my gang with little or no knowledge of musical theory?
Forget music theory and all that nonsense. The Grammy is in the mail!
Hahahahahaha, love it when stupid things becomes a “thing”:)
By the way, what midi controller is that on the table? It looks nice.
I believe the keyboard is a m-audio axiom pro 49.
I’m really looking forward to this. I’m also wondering if they’re going to position it as “pro” (ie, it’ll cost $30+) or if they’ll go for a more reasonable “this is our first foray into iPad synths” price ($10 or less). If they go “pro” and this thing isn’t the 2nd coming of Animoog, they’re going to face a certain “credibility issue” in the future.