Geo Synthesizer
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | $9.99 | Wizdom Music LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
A comprehensive Geo Synthesizer manual is available at: http://www.wizdommusic.com/GeoSynth/manual.html
Jordan says: "Since touching a preliminary piano keyboard on an iPhone screen and realizing the amazing potential for musical expression on a multitouch device, I have been inspired to create next-generation musical instruments for iOS. Geo Synthesizer is a dream come true in many ways. It is the fastest truly playable iOS instrument that I have put my hands on to date. I can fly through the range of an instrument while expanding on the kind of advanced pitch control we introduced in MorphWiz. As someone who grew up with synthesizers, I can tell you that pitch bending has never been this good!
"Geo features many of my custom sounds and in addition, Geo is also a MIDI controller, so you can use it with any external midi instrument or virtual MIDI. Virtual MIDI allows you to control an app running in the background on the same device! Geo Synthesizer also now features AudioBus, a technology that allows one to interconnect audio apps in exciting new ways! A great feature of Geo is that internally and externally we send independent voices on each note played, so as an example, you can pitch bend one note and not the other, or add unique expression on every note! I can't wait to see the YouTube videos of all of you guys rocking out with Geo Synthesizer!!!"
Features:
- AudioBus
- ability to load waveforms from SampleWiz presets
- octave rounding for effortless soloing over large ranges
- whammy slider with absolute and relative modes
- 12ET, 24ET, 53ET, and 665ET temperament options
- mono, string, and full-polyphony modes
- tuning and transposition controls
- snap speed control to affect how quickly the instrument pulls notes in tune
- playing surface options for number of rows and columns on screen
- octave and fifth harmonics synthesis options to rich, organ-like sounds
- gain control to add distortion to the sound
- FM and touch FM controls for timbal variation
- mono out for use with guitar amps
- sine, sawtooth, square, and custom (SampleWiz) wave options
- attack and release controls
- synthesis body control
- lowpass filter with resonance
- stereo delay
- reverb
- MIDI output with polyphonic note bending and multiple configuration options to allow compatibility with a wide range of hardware and software synthesizers
- performance menu lets you make your own custom menu so all the controls you need are always right at your fingertips
- 40 presets carefully selected by Jordan Rudess, including patches from Jordan's personal sound library
Reviews
Great instrument
marco and mikey28667
This app is downright fun to use. It's also really great for more serious recording with all it's different patches or as a controller.
Great interface but...
robotsound
Needs an update to work with Bluetooth midi. I really love this interface but can not get it to work with Bluetooth midi.
Disappointed.. :( no updates in the past 3 years
JayBala
I love the tones in this synth but there hasn’t been an update for 3 years which disappoints me
Abandoned
Clavmeister
Geo Synth is just a fun toy anymore. Jordan has collected his money and has now abandoned it. It had such potential. It’s too bad. I wonder what Jordan is hawking now.
Not working with GarageBand
thaactivator
It does not work with GarageBand it does work with other synth but the tutorial shows it with GarageBand and that’s what I was looking for.
Too much fun
Bigdaddy87
I must admit I was a little put off by the screen shots of the "keyboard", thinking it would be way too hard to figure out. But after watching some vids of GeoSynth in action I decided to give it a shot. And after just a few minutes of playing it I was ripping some pretty impressive "solos." All I can say is, this thing is amazingly fun to play! I'm thinking how way cool it would be to be able to "split" the "strings" to allow say, bass on one side and guitar on the other. It could then played somewhat like a Chapman Stick. I love it!
Nice
n0r00t4u
Great app and very ingenius. But, these guys need to get away from the cartoonish look of all of their apps and tame the "wiz" reference a bit in everything. You're really not wizards of music by any stretch. I think most of the real wizards of music are either dead or really old. Might want to have a look at some of the new Moog apps for some interface design ideas.
Very cool
glennarbor
I'm having difficulty sending midi to Reason though. I have rtp midi installed and can get reason to recognize my iPhone as a control surface, but when I select a midi track I get nothing. Any ideas what I might be missing? Wifi midi is on in app and I'm using network session one under midi config. No luck.
Fantastic!
Eriptron
I am having so much fun using the MIDI in background with Geo Synthesizer controlling SampleWiz and other synth apps that support that feature. The app is very stable as I have played constantly for the last three days and not a single crash. I love the octave rounding switch with arpeggios...WOW! I'm still trying to get Geo Synthesizer to work with Animoog. That could be one wicked pair with the MIDI WiFi network connection.
Help, I deleted some presets
BCalvo
This app is amazing, awesome features, great feel, great presets. I am going to use some stuff as intros to my band music. Can anybody help me get back some of the presets I deleted on accident?
