The free apps include some of the best software synths and effects available on iOS.
Moog has just made all of its iOS apps – Model 15, Minimoog Model D, Animoog and Filtatron – available for free, in honor of the late Bob Moog‘s birthday (May 23, 1934).
The Model 15 also runs as a Mac AUv3 plugin in Logic and GarageBand. Model 15 also runs as an AUv3 plugin in Logic, GarageBand and Mainstage, though only if you have macOS Big Sur.
The apps are available as free downloads for a limited time.
NOISE is a free white noise user oscillator for the KORG Nu:Tekt NTS-1 digital synth kit.
It is based on the sine_test code in KORG’s logue-sdk. The code has been optimised to produce a Gaussian white noise output. Parameter A has no effect on the sound, while parameter B adds soft clipping to the white noise core signal, slightly boosting the level, reducing the dynamic range, and adding some extra overall presence.
You can use NOISE along with the NTS-1’s filters, envelopes, and effects to create a variety of timbres including percussion, sweeps, and more. Or use it with external synths such as the KORG Volca Modular.
Kinesotronic has introduced Variation Stepper, a free Max For Live device that enables you sequence and randomize variations of settings in Ableton Live.
Features:
16 MIDI Assignable Variation Triggers
16 Step Variation Sequencer with randomisation options, pattern rotation, selectable timing resolutions and global controls
16 slots to store variation sequencer patterns
Flexible pattern sequencer for chaining and repeating patterns in any order
Automatically populate linked device racks with up to 16 randomly generated macro variations.
New Macro Randomization and sequencing options.
At the heart of variation stepper is a versatile 16-step sequencer which is used to sequence a device rack’s variations in repeatable sequences. The values on each step relate to a particular variation stored in the linked device rack. They can be set precisely to recall specific variations at specific times. They can also be randomized, with control over the degree of randomization applied, to generate random, but repeatable patterns. Variation Stepper can also randomize macros directly, rather than randomizing the stored variations in a rack.
This allows the user to truly randomize the macros of the linked device, rather than creating a random pattern of carefully prepared variations.
In addition, this feature can be triggered at will and mapped to MIDI controllers or keyboards to make it performable, but Variation Stepper also features an alternative sequencer page where these randomization triggers can be sequenced on specific steps of a pattern in place of the specific variations defined by the main variation sequencer.
The sequencer has global controls for quickly dialing in values across the whole sequencer and programming patterns. It also has selectable resolutions and randomization for the active steps in a pattern.
Variation Stepper also features a 4 part pattern sequencer which can store up to 16 patterns and play back any 4 of these in any order of repetitions or variations you care to program.
Variation Stepper is available now as a free download.
