I see now why it was the go to choice in so many demos a year or so back. So I downloaded (on sale to boot!) and it's everything I hoped it was. Patiently.Īnd I knew it would happen! Well, I hoped anyway, that eventually an update would come out of nowhere and it would be back in business. Combined with how far back the last update was, I didn't take any chances and just waited. I has been reading the reviews and saw how this great vocoder, possibly the best on iOS, just eroded away to the point where it didn't even work. The app balances control and ease of use well, it sounds very good indeed (this developer may be relied on for rich-sounding synths - where there is ever a problem it is either in maintenance or/and UI (Poseidon, for example, cries out for more and better control)), and it has a generous assortment of "voxels" (phonemes and phrases) to help users begin sculpting sounds. That said, it is very hard to do better in this specific category. Others may be more demanding about conveniences. To me, if I need to copy a recording to another app, I am fine with it, even if I often use Audiobus or whatever else. It may not please everyone who demands that every type of workflow be accounted for by each app. If you need a voice synth on your pad, or even if you do not (like essentially everyone), and you are willing to fool around with the app until you understand it, this is well worth buying. Doing the work, however, keeps products alive and viable in the market (here, the App Store) and makes for happy customers who buy more of your products. Note, this complaint about maintaining, fixing, and refining apps for this platform applies to a lot of synthesizer (and other) developers. Having caught up a bit, one hopes VirSyn will do better at maintenance of all their apps going forward. That primarily hurt interoperability, but not cripplingly so. The main complaint here is that development has been very slow - with no updates for one long stretch. And there are others that have their own stories - usually turning out that the apps are either not as good as this app or they cover different synthesizer fields and only touch on vocal/formant synthesis. Both apps cost substantially more than this one. Another comes from Wolfgang Palm, bring more control to the user, which usually means people complain there is something to learn. One comes from the same developer, which offers the user a simpler approach to this genre. There are lately new contenders that take different approaches. (It is, strangely, but not invisibly, on the "Effects" page.)įar from "total crap" or "just a piano" (an odd choice for an insult, and wrong), this remains the reference voice-synth app on platform - especially given its relatively modest price. The review page of this app has deteriorated over time to the point where reviewers cannot even find the master volume control. Audiobus 2 support (Input/Filter/Output) with state saving (requires iOS 7 or newer).flexible MIDI control for Gender and Vibrato.Voice optimized polyphonic synthesizer with up to 64 analog waves.Polyphonic sequencer for notes & lyrics.Play your vocoded voice live on keyboard.Pitch Follower and automatic tuning correction to selectable scale.Realtime analysis/resynthesis of your voice.The output of your creations can be recorded to an audio file which youĬan use with other Apps and programs for further processing. The carrier signal and the vocal signal can now be fed by any Audiobus compatible Apps. IVoxel is Audiobus compatible and can be used in the Input, Filter and Output slots in the Audiobus signal chain. Nearly 300 hundred prerecorded voxels are already included. Then use this voxel to play with your own voice on the keyboard or with the build in sequencer. Record the analyzed spectrum of phrases and words from your own voice. Use it to sing over your favorite iTunes song ! The sound character of your voice can be changed in many different aspects like pitch, gender or breath noise. You can use iVoxel in many different ways:Īs a realtime vocoder talking into the microphone while playing tunes on the keyboard. The pitch follower and automatic tuning let you sing correct to a selectable scale. The channel filters used by iVoxel are based on the Sennheiser Vocoder VSM201 resulting in a rich and fat analogue sound characteristic. The vocoder part is based on the Matrix vocoder from VirSyn used by many famous artists - one of them the well known german group Kraftwerk. iVoxel is a combination of a voice optimized synthesizer and a vocoder. IVoxel is not only an amazingly sounding vocoder - the unique concept of iVoxel turns this vocoder into a singing machine.
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