Oliver Greschke has updated Elastic Melody, available for $14.99. The upgrade is free to existing users.
What’s new in version 1.2:
- MASTER SECTION
- Added general Master leve
- Added simple volume meter
- OSCILLATOR
- Added 4 more Oscillator Waveforms for a greater range of sounds
- Added Modulations for a greater variety of sounds
- 1) Pitch Modulation
- 2) FM Modulation (IAP)
- 3) FM decayed Modulation (IAP)
- FILTER
- Added 3 Filter overdrives for adding dirt
- 1) Creamy Overdrive
- 2) Filter Feedback (IAP)
- 3 Filter FM (IAP)
- TRACKS
- Change Solo & Mute:
- 1) Solo (S) is now on Tracks top
- 2) Mute (M) is now on Tracks bottom
- 3) Longtap tracks number to edit the name
- SEQUENCER SECTION
- New .rnd shift” knob to automatically alter the notes with new rounds:
- a) Turn right to shift pitch every 4,2a,2b,1 rounds
- b) Turn left to shift position every 4,3,2,1 rounds
- c) double tap rnd shift button to get the original pattern again
- Improved sync behavior for First and Last
- Buttons – corrected wrong notes for certain scales
- AUTOMATION
- New Automation recording, when “Autom” is selected: Turn a knob while the pattern is playing and Elastic Melody will write it into the step automation for you.
- Move the knob back and forth -> records a changing curve at the playhead
- Hold ~1 second -> force static and clear that parameter’s automatior So you can either draw automation by hand or perform it live and capture it automatically,
- FX SECTION
- Added an fx send Button to the 3 tracks aivina the ability to make some tracks sound more dry
- Added Ping Pong Delay as a second Delay (IAP)
- Added Datorro Reverb for longer Reverbs (IAP)
- EQ is now at the end of the FX & Drv chain
- PRESETS SECTION
- Added Like button function, enabling to show your preferred presets on the top
- New presets are now marked with a NEW badge
- Added Presets Delete
- Added Presets Import
- Added Presets ,,Save to”, to save presets on your computer
- SETTINGS
- Added Buffer Size Switch – Added Manual
- Added Store for IAP Extra Mode
- GENERAL
- Improved timing, especially in AUv3 Plugin Mode
- Improved behavior with BT headphones changes
- AUv3 company names for backwards compability
- DESIGN
- Several small design improvements
- MAC CATALYST
- Works much much better now on vour Mac as a Standalone app or as an AUv3 plugin
Elastic Melody is a standalone Mac Application and AUv3 plugin with 3 channels of synthetic sounds, an analog style step sequencer and 4 master effects. Almost all parameters can be automated and thus changed in an „elastic way“. The focus of Elastic Melody is on a fast and intuitive creation of melodies with a basic analog sound.
Elastic Melody comes with a bunch of presets from well-known sound designers of the iOS scene, like “Sound of Izrael”, “Red Sky Lullaby”, “Nu-Trix”, “JaKob Haq” and others.
Features include:
- Synthesizer / Sequencer
- 3 channels, each with an analog synthesizer that is connected to an associated sequencer
- Each sequencer channel has its own start/end and timing parameters for notes and automation
- 14 parameters per synth engine (waveform, lowpass, highpass, env, etc.)
- For each parameter, value changes can be drawn in an automation window
- Solo or mute function for the 3 synth channels
- Song Mode: Create easily longer sequences with setting pattern repeat and duplicating and altering a pattern
- Master FX
- 4 master effects (EQ, Chorus, Delay, Reverb)
- Automation for most parameters of the effects
- Each FX effect has its own start/end and timing parameters for automation
- Song Mode
- Arrange several Pattern to a longer sequence … a Song
- Repeat count for Song Elements/Pattern
- Duplicate/Rename/Delete function for Pattern and Song Elements
- Functions
- Undo/Redo
- Various randomise functions
- Option to share and import presets
- Copy function to copy Sound, Notes or Automation data to another track
- Midi Input: Select your Midi Input source and the track that should receive Midi Notes
- Midi Output: Select where track Notes should get routed to
- AUv3 support
- Ableton Link support
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