Developer Matthew Fecher let us know that AudioKit Synth One, described as ‘the largest free & open-source iOS music project in history’ – is now available as a free download.
AudioKit Synth One is a polyphonic synthesizer for iOS that features 300+ presets, Audiobus 3 & Inter-App Audio support, deep synthesis capabilities, a wequencer and arpeggiator, a reverb by Valhalla DSP’s Sean Costello and more.
Features:
- Hybrid Analog/FM Poly Synthesizer
- Over 300+ Presets
- Audiobus 3 & Inter-app Audio (IAA)
- AUM, BeatMaker 3, Cubasis, GarageBand compatible
- Five Oscillators (2 DCO, FM, Sub, Noise)
- 2 Assignable LFOs with dozens of routing possibilities
- 100+ Alternative Scales & Tunings
- Vintage-Style 16-Step Sequencer
- Classic poly arpeggiator
- MIDI in (Control with a MIDI Keyboard or DAW)
- Touchable ADSR Envelopes for Amp & Filter
- FM Oscillator w/ Mod
- Dedicated Sine/Square -12/24 Sub Osc
- 4-Pole Vintage Low-Pass Filter
- High-Pass/Band Pass Filters
- Mono portamento & legato
- Beautiful Sean Costello Reverb
- Multi-tap (ping-pong) delay
- TouchPads
- Preset Import/Export & More…
- MIDI Learn on all knobs
- Compact app size (under 30mb)
- MIDI Bank (MSB)/Patch Change & Sustain Pedal support
- Bank of over a dozen “Starter” presets by Brice Beasley to use as a starting place to craft your own preset creations
- Full Source code included
Here’s a intro video by redskylullaby:
Here’s a demo of presets created by Brice Beasley:
Here’s demo of presets by DJ Puzzle:
Synth One is available now as a free download.
Looks good. Helm is my current favourite open-source synth and great sounding too with some nice vocal filters for example.
But where does the plug-in business go if everything becomes open-source and free? Is this the same death spiral to zero we’ve seen for iOS apps?
There’s no reason free and open have conflict with paid products.
See VCV Rack, MIDI, etc.
Yup, VCV Rack is a great example, I’ll be throwing some $ at that for sure. Would be good if that got the iOS treatment.
VCV Rack is a great example, I’ll be investing in that for sure. iOS version would be ace.
With « established / big companies », no conflict. With new or « wannabe » companies, they have to find other ways to make a living…
A new iPad synth is a good thing to wake up to, been checking it out for the last few hours now and two thumbs up, thanks.
Awesome stuff!!
And open source too!!
If it’s open source, we ccen look forward for ports to other platforms, both mobile and desktop