Woodman’s Immaculate Maple Syrup Studio have updated WoodSynth to version 4, currently available to iOS users for only $15.99 and MacOS users for only $79.99.
What’s new in version 4.0:
- Added Tube Oscillator type (based on the tube modelling in WoodValvet) :
- Drive, bias and tube type parameters allow to smoothly change harmonics and waveform from sine wave to square wave.
- An optional integrator circuit after the oscillator can generate sawtooth waveforms.
- The drive control can be modulated by the oscillator’s LFO, by the Aux ADSR or by midi input (pressure, aftertouch, modwheel and CC74).
- Added new convolution reverb unit based on WoodVerberator.
- It has a new reverb type dropdown, a new reverb time (0 .. 10s) and a new damping control.
- Reverb Send can be modulated by the general LFO’s and by keyboard pressure/aftertouch.
- Reverb parameters now have their own UI panel. Reverb now has its own HPF, LPF and Saturation (not shared with delay any longer).
- Added Samples per note : allows sampled instruments like drums, piano, etc.
- Notes without a sample have several modes to generate sound from an existing sample.
- Added new Preset Browser.
- Added SetList : a small list of presets with midi PC values starting from 0 and up.
- Added manual triggering of the sequencer (live playing, see section 6.1.9 …).
- Sequencer can now show the note values in stead of only semitone values.
- ML (midi learn) now indicates when a midi CC is already used.
- Added 10+ presets.
WoodSynth is a synthesizer with 4 independent layers. Each layer is in fact a synthesizer in its own.
Each layer has 3 VCO’s plus a samples or wavetable based source, coming from a file or from recording the audio track.
Up to 16 voices can be set per layer.
Layers can be used in parallel, assigned to a region of the keyboard or used in a sequential mode where the first note(s) on are played by layer 1 and the next note(s) by layer 2 and so on.
This last mode allows to have a different sound per note played (and independent from a keyboard region).
WoodSynth has a polyphonic pitch-bending touch bar which also displays notes received from a keyboard.
Each layer has its own filter and envelope with ADSR per voice, a pitch shifting envelope per VCO, a delay, a basic reverb, a modulator LFO per VCO, 2 general LFO’s and a 16 steps sequencer.
Key tracking can be applied on the ADSR attack and release, on the filter cutoff and on the VCO modulation.
The app can be used stand-alone (device audio input and output) or as a plugin in a DAW.
Features include:
- AUv3 (iOS) (MacOS) AU, AAX, VST2, VST3 and stand-alone app.
- Has 4 independent synthesizers, each with up to 16 voices.
- Supports MPE.
- Has a polyphonic touch bar with polyphonic pitch bending.
- Velocity, channel pressure, (polyphonic) aftertouch, CC74 can be used to modulate several synth parameters.
- VCO’s have the usual waveforms (sine, saw, square, triangle, pulse and noise) and can be modulated in various ways (FM, AM, Pulse Width, Slew rate)
- Samples can be recorded from the audio input/track or loaded from file (sample files should be in the WoodSynth iCloud folder)
- Wavetables can be loaded from file or converted from loaded or recorded samples.
- Each voice has a 4-pole Moog Lowpass filter with resonance and ADSR envelope.
- An offset can be set in the Filter cutoff for the R channel to create a stereo effect.
- Each voice has a pitch shifting ADSR envelope which can be independently enabled for each VCO.
- Has Key tracking for VCO pan, Filter cutoff, ADSR Envelope Attack and Release.
- Each layer has a delay unit (which can be separately panned) and a basic reverb.
- Each layer has a 16 steps sequencer which can run on multiple voices (poly mode).
- Each layer can set the midi channel and range of receiving midi notes (which allows for up to 4 split keyboard regions).
- Layers can be set in sequential mode : first note(s) played on layer1, next note(s) on layer2, etc.
- Layers have an additional high-pass filter saturation and crush control.
- Synth audio and delay can be panned independently.
- The 2 general LFO’s can have their source from the samples or wavetables (or track input).
- Supports Ableton Link to sync tempo and start-stop.
- Has 4 User Control rotaries which can be freely assigned.
- The User Controls can be controlled by a midi CC which can be set or learned.
- Presets can be stored in iCloud Drive (makes them available on all your devices).
Watch the tube presets demo video HERE.
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