Jamie Paiva (Vald Labs) has updated Tresse Polyphonic Synthesizer, available as a limited time FREE download. The offer ends October 15th. NOTE: Please check the app privacy permissions before downloading.
What’s new in version 1.3.0:
- IMPORTANT FOR EXISTING USERS – The FREE editing limits have changed: one editable oscillator layer, up to 16 steps and Euclidean sequencing. LFO 1, second-layer editing, Shimmer and MIDI Learn now require ADV or FULL. Existing preset and host-project settings are retained: locked features continue to play, but editing them requires the relevant pack. Manual MIDI CC assignment remains available in FREE.
- NEW AND IMPROVED
- Independent JOIN/SPLIT sequencers with ADV and above. Splitting copies the original sequence and all its settings, including chords.
- Up to 32 steps with ADV and 64 with PRO/FULL.
- Ping Pong direction with ADV; Random Walk direction and timing options up to 16 bars with PRO/FULL.
- Immediate sequencer edits, including during tied notes. Long-press PROB with TIE enabled to choose whether probability gaps sustain or cut notes.
- PRO/FULL oscillator and sequence copy- paste between presets, with independent clipboards and selectable destinations.
- Undo/Redo, double-tap knob reset and direct LFO/MOD linking from knob menus.
- Independent FOLD and CRSH/DIST amounts, improved held-note sound editing and slower LFO destination scrolling.
- Randomization respects pack limits and parameter locks. Synth randomization keeps FOLD at zero and CRSH/DIST at 15 or below.
- Six FREE factory presets: Gold Air, Dawn Twine, Fern Loop, Gold Mesh, River Wave and Onyx Mesh.
- New INIT patch and paused startup for fresh instances,
- Host-following BPM in SLAVE, improved MIDI timing and a fix for the Drambo mapped-control crash.
- Improved preset sharing, split-sequence recall and QR camera guidance. Preset loading preserves your sync mode.
TRESSE is a polyphonic synthesizer that merges 39 sound engines into one instrument for iPhone and iPad. It runs standalone and as an AUv3 plugin inside AUM, AudioBus, and GarageBand.
Twenty-four engines come from Mutable Instruments Plaits: subtractive. FM, wavetable, additive, granular speech and formant, chords, resonators, and analog- nodelled drums. Fifteen more are custom, ported and extended: Karplus-Strong strings, vowel formants modal and sympathetic-string resonators, a seven- saw supersaw, Hammond-style drawbars, bytebeat and a multi-waveform wavefolder.
Run two engines at once and crossfade them with the balance knob – each layer has its own filter envelopes and voice mode. A self-stable SEM-style filter morphs continuously from lowpass to bandpass to highpass to notch and stays stable at full resonance. Two ADSR envelopes per layer shape amplitude and filter independently. Three six-shape LFOs and two step-sequenced MOD lanes route to almost anything – timbre, filters, the layer balance even the sequencer’s own knobs. A master chain adds chorus, tape, ping-pong and lo-fi delays, hall room, plate and shimmer reverbs, and a wavefolder.
A generative step sequencer drives the synth with seven algorithms – wave interference, Euclidean random walk, logistic map, cellular automata, Kaprekar and Fibonacci. Shape the pattern with DENSE, probability, swing or humanize, tie and strum over a full scale and chord system. The arpeggiator can play the main sequence itself – with or without its intervals -or walk your held notes in seven modes Two synth-macro knobs put any synth parameter on the sequencer page
Presets save, load and rename instantly – and share as compact text keys or QR codes anvone on TRESSE can load.
TRESSE is an iOS standalone app and an AUv3 instrument. Load it in any AUv3 host, including AUM AudioBus, and GarageBand. Its state saves with your host project. It responds to MIDI note input from any connected kevboard or controller. with MIDI learn or every knob.
Free plays everything: every preset sounds exactly as designed, and two engines, the Kaprekar algorithm three divisions. scales and chords and one LFO are fully editable. ADV unlocks the 24-engine instrument every algorithm, the arpeggiator, all divisions, scales and chords. LFO 2. MOD 1 and preset saving. PRO adds the 15 Vald enaines. LFO 3 and MOD 2 – everything. FULL is both in a single purchase. All are one-time purchases, and a sinale unlock covers the standalone app and the AUv3 extension.
Already available also on desktop as VST3 and AU, for macOS and Windows.
Tresse is available to PC, Mac and iOS users (VST3, AU and AUv3).
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