Diego Capoccitti has released NerDie, available for $4.99.
An 8-bit noise machine for iPad and iPhone: four oscillators, eight summing algorithms, a one-bar sequencer. MPE and 45 presets. Standalone and AUv3, no subscription.
NerDie is an 8-bit noise machine for iPad and iPhone: four oscillators, four LFOs, a summing tree with eight algorithms, a resonant low-pass filter and a one-bar sequencer. Thirty-two registers, integer arithmetic mono output – the sound of a chip rather than a of one.picture
The engine runs in whole numbers at a fixed chip rate. Overflow, wrap and quantisation are not added afterwards to make it sound old: they are the signal itself.
It runs on its own or as an AUv3 instrument on a MIDI track in any host that loads them, in portrait and in landscape.
The machine:
- 4 oscillators. 16 waveforms each. 19 to 1350 Hz
- 4 LFOs. 8 shapes, moving pitch or volume – free-running in Hz, or multipliers of the clock up to x128 with the phase reset on everv tick
- 3 summing topologies x 3 nodes x 8 algorithms: addition. overflow, subtraction, ring modulation, XOR FM and wave-shaping — 1,536 wavs to add four voices together
- 8-bit resonant low-pass filter that self-oscillates at the top of its trave
- One-bar seauencer with overdub, recorded finer than a sixteenth-note grid, driven by the internal clock, the host transport or MIDI clock
- 32 registers on 8 pages of 4 pots, with optional hardware-stvle pot pickup
- Four chip rates – 15625. 31250. 62500. 78125 Hz – and three outputs: RAW, CLEAN, TAPE
CHAOS throws every register at once, the way the machine does. and sometimes lands on silence. RND builds a whole patch, renders it and measures it before handing it over, so it always makes a sound UNDO brings back what you had.
Drag a knob up and down for the coarse move and sideways for the fine one, eight times slower, without lifting your finger. Long press to type a value in its real unit – Hz. ms. %. the name of a waveform – to reset it, or to assign a MIDI CC with MIDI Learn Double tap for the default. Two knobs turn at once and the four pads are played with as many fingers as you like. Pinch the panel up to 250% and drag it around: the top bar and the value strip never scale. so the preset name and the register you are turning stay readable at any zoom.
The four oscillators become four MPE voices. Press, slide, strike and bend pass through a matrix that decides what each one moves – tuning, level, waveform, LFO depth, filter cutoff – with a response curve per gesture. Controllers reach the app over Bluetooth or a Camera Connection Kit, and reach the AUv3 through its host.
The pixel panel with its four pots and page buttons; the matrix, with all 32 registers on screen at once; and a photograph of the circuit with the controls mounted on it.
45 factory presets in nine folders – Bass. Drones. FX. Glitch, Melodic, Noise, Rhythms, Sequenced, Init – installed on the first run. The ones vou save live in the Files app under On My iPad / NerDie / Presets. so you can copy them out or drop new ones in. The .ner format is identical to the desktop version and travels in both directions. Presets saved inside a host are there when vou open the app on its own.
Buy it once. There is nothing to activate, nothing to sign in to, and nothing is collected.
NerDie is an independent project, modelled on the behaviour of the SOMA Laboratory Rumble of Ancient Times. It is not affiliated with or endorsed bv SOMA Laboratory, and no firmware, artwork, font or layout of the original is used in this product,
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