Reader Christophe Duquesne has released Anckorage Spring – a new physical modeling synth for IOS (iPhone,iPad and iPod).
Anckorage Spring is based on “the simulation of a set of connected mass- spring, integrating non-linearities, fluid and static friction, mechanical limits, gravity and bouncing.”
It is designed to be controlled by a continuous controller (like the Haken Continuum) but can be used with a regular keyboard or directly from the device screen or from other core MIDI apps. According to Duquesne, a continuous controller will provide a much more accurate control of the model.
The mains ideas behind Anckorage Spring are:
- Being able to tweak real world parameter like Mass, Force, Gravity, etc. instead of tweaking usual electronic parameters,
- Not only try to mimic real world, but also allow very “unusual” things like modulating a Mass and changing the Gravity,
- Emphasis control and expression using the physical parameters,
- Open a new world of sound to experiment with….
Features:
- Real physical modeling sound engine
- Fully editable physical model
- 88 200 Hz internal sampling rate
- Special Haken Continuum compliance
- Playable by any midi device
- Core midi base (therefore including virtual midi and network midi compliance)
- On device touch control
- Rich preset management
- Preset exchange mechanism (through iTunes Share)
- All parameters controllable by MIDI CC
- Audiobus compliant
Anckorage Spring is available now as a free download from the App Store.
Other than Impaktor, I have not found any other physical modeling synths for iOS. How nice that this is a free one!! (It’s unclear from the post above if this is a promotional offer or time-limited). I’m looking forward to trying it out! Will report back.
Just tinkering with presets, sounds nice. I like the playing interface. Seems to quantize to pitches as you tap, but will bend pitch if you swipe. X axis is pitch, Y axis is volume.
Thanks for these comments….
Yes it’s free, and it will remain free …
I’m happy to contribute to physical modeling on IOS.
I have plenty of ideas to improve and extend the model: there will be updates and other apps … (I mailny need time…)
I hope you will have fun playing with it
Many thanks to Synthtopia for this post on my app !
Christophe
Hi Christophe, I was going to email to thank you, but I’ll go ahead and express my gratitude here.
The program is fascinating. I’ve enjoyed playing the presets. I read the manual last night. You did a fantastic job, both with the program and with explaining the parameters of the spring. I really appreciate that you have kept the model simple and “dangerous”. Some developers try to remove “risks”– i.e., try to make it so no settings will go silent; or prevent sounds from sustaining through preset changes. You have made it so that unusual and interesting things can happen!
It sounds great! I’ll go give it a good rating right now.
Hi Christophe, I sent an email (to the address in the docs) but it was returned undeliverable. FYI.
Thanks for all these very nice comments.
You can email me at [email protected]
Thanks for this very nice comment
I’m happy that you have we’ll spotted the intention behind keeping the model “dangerous”.
You can find my detailed contact here : http://www.aurigetech.com/pages/7-Contact