Mike Gazzaruso has released Tincture Synth, available for $12.99.
Tincture is a field of wormholes scattered through a living 4D swarm. Pluck one, bow another – hold a bow and the whole field starts composing itself, locked to your tempo.
Tincture is an expressive instrument for iPad – a field of wormholes (tiny, playable black holes) scattered through a living 4D swarm, over a warm, ever-shiftina drone. Pluck them, bow them, and watch the light bend and fall into each one. Less a synthesizer, more a small universe you play with your hands.
Every note is a wormhole – a little black hole glowing its own colour, pulling the surrounding swarm in gravitationally, in 4D. Pluck one and it flares; bow another and it sings. Crisp event-horizon edges, a coloured core swirling inside – unmistakable, and beautiful. Shuffle the whole field anytime.
Bow one wormhole and don’t let go. After a few seconds it collapses into a singularity that pulls every other wormhole toward it – and an endless, self- generating sequence ignites across the field perfectly locked to tempo. Move your finger to shape it live: up/down for density, left/right for variation, press harder for velocity. Lift off and it keeps playing.
Tell NOVA what you hear – “a alassy frozen choir with a long tail” – and it designs the whole instrument around your words. No menus. No knobs Just intention, answered. Runs entirely on-device nothing you type ever leaves your iPad.*
Bring an MPE controller and every wormhole bends slides and swells on its own. Press deeper, glide sideways, lift away – the most expressive way there is to play it.**
Underneath everything, a warm chord glows and slowly drifts. Whatever you play lands inside the harmony – nothing can sound wrong.
Open the modulation matrix and wire slow tides and preathing waves to anything – a wormhole’s pitch the drone’s colour, the light in the field. Free-running, or locked to your tempo.
Echo, reverb, chorus. drive, motion, compression – every dial that shapes the body, the air and the shimmer. Plus a library of hand-made sounds to oper and make your own.
Run Tincture as an AUv3 in your Mac DAW, hit Link Host. and your iPad follows the DAW’s transport – tempo, play, stop – in real time over Wi-Fi. Phase- locked and zero-lag, on any DAW, with nothing to set up. (Host = the macOS AUv3 Client = the iPac standalone.)
Play it on its own, or load it as an AUv3 instrument inside your favourite host. Sends and receives MIDI; every parameter is automatable from your DAW.
- * NOVA runs on-device and needs a recent iPad with on-device Al (iPadOS 26 or later). Everything else works everywhere.
- ** Requires an MPE-compatible controller (ROLI Seaboard, LinnStrument, an MPE keyboard…).
For more information on Tincture Synth, click here:
NOTE: Some of the links you click on may be affiliated. Clicking and purchasing using these links helps support and fund The Beat Community. Thanks for your support.
