Bram Bosbhas reduced the price of various apps for a limited time.
- Fluss – $13.99 to $6.99
- Salome – $7.99 to $4.99
- Hammerhead – $7.99 to $4.99
- Sculptor- $12.99 to $6.99
- Hilda – $12.99 to $6.99
- Solderbox – $12.99 to $6.99
Fluss
The playful touch UI invites anything from live performance, experimentation to learning and mastering the granular concept.
You can import your own WAVs (standalone & AUv3 Instrument plugin), Record audio (Record effect plugin) or live-process sound (Process effect plugin) to create anything from drones and granular echoes to moving microtonal audio textures.
All sliders and XY pads are linked to a physics model which lets you flick and throw them around. Minimise the friction for endless bouncing motion, as an innovative substitute for traditional LFOs and modulation. There was never a better reason for using a touchscreen for music.
Like a shimmer reverb, except it feeds the processed audio back into the grain engine. This lets you create an endless loop of pitch-shifting spaciousness, turning even the simplest of sounds into massive woolly mammoths.
Salome
This project started as a utility for Bram’s own use. He wanted a tool to quickly grab a piece of audio and play it melodically. Specifically, he needed it to be super easy to make seamless loops and pads out of anything, without the need for tinkering with an audio editor.
The result is Salome. Her strength does not lie in an overwhelming feature list but in a lightning fast workflow. Just fire her up, record or import a sound snippet and go to town!
Salome lets you play a sample or recording over 4 octaves, using expressive MPE pads on the screen, external MPE controllers, and even using regular MIDI apps or controllers.
There are two ways to get samples into the app: record them (using the plugin as an audio effect to send sound through it) or by importing WAV/AIFF files. Obviously, you can save your recording (and its accompanying settings) into a patch for instant access later on.
Once you have a sound ready to be played, you can specify which modulations are applied (and how strongly) when you use the MPE “gesture” controls. Some modulations can be applied to movements on the Y-axis (which corresponds with velocity and pressure on a hardware controller) and others to the X-axis (usually reserved for pitch bends).
However, you are free to disable velocity and pitchbend and use the MPE controls for e.g. Filter LFO-rate and pan respectively.
Finally, you can switch the onscreen keypads to latch mode, transforming them essentially into a set of sliders for fading layers of sounds in and out gradually. Especially useful for soundscapes and ambient performances.
All the movements you make on the keypads are sent out of the plugin as MPE MIDI messages, so you can record them and replay them using your host (as long as the host supports MPE data, obviously).
Hammerhead
The little shark is back. After 25 vears. the new Hammerhead is a fresh. mobile reinterpretation of the classic software drum computer that started it all
Hammerhead is still simple, fun and playful. It still feels like a little 90s groovebox. Except this time it fits in your pocket, it integrates in your plugin ecosystem and comes with a lot more creative possibilities…
Sculptor
Skulptur is a highlv interactive Performance Filterbank designed by Bram Bos and Berlin-based musician Hainbach. It’s a 10-band filter instrument unlike anv other filterbank vou’ve ever used
Designed for touch with kinetic sliders and other touch-centric innovations, it brings lots of different ways to interact with your sounds. Swipe, throw, slide, push, pull and draw the 10 surgical filters to animate and manipulate your sounds in ways that no other plugin allows.
Comes with plugins for iOS, iPadOS and MacOs (13+ Intel and ARM
Hilda
You’ll find a wave folder, lowpass gate, and audio-rate modulations, but also a 12-mode filter and traditional VCA circuit.
All parts of the instrument are carefully circuit-modelled to sound as analog (or digital, where applicable) as possible. It’s like a best-of-all-worlds semi modular synth, but without the patch cables.
The eclectic mix of different synthesis components adds up to a unique sounding electronic instrument, which can be used as a playable synthesizer, a drone/noise box, a MIDI sequencer and an audio effect for external audio – or any combination of those three.
Solderbox
The app is designed to offer a set of modular functions that is both comprehensive and eclectic, including several tools for generative synthesis, random signals and the surgical mangling of audio waves and modulation signals.
A lot of effort went into making everything sound and behave as analog as digitally possible (with the exception of the unashamedly digital Entropy lo-fi effect processor). Additionally, the built-in Instability Engine injects the subtle fluctuations simulating the effects of crosstalk, leaky signals and expired electrical components. This is a living instrument with a soul of its own.
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