MorphWiz
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | $9.99 | Wizdom Music LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Winner of Electronic Musician's 2011 iPhone/iPod touch/iPad App Editors' Choice Award!
Winner of Billboard Music App Awards 2010 Best Music Creation App!
Winner of Best App Ever 2010 Award for Best Musical iPad App!
MorphWiz from Wizdom Music, created by Jordan Rudess and Kevin Chartier. http://www.morphwiz.com
"MorphWiz, by design, affords incredible expressive subtlety for anyone who explores its endless possibilities. Rock on!!!" Ge Wang, Co-Founder, CTO, and Chief Creative Officer of Smule (creators of Magic Piano)
"Jordan's very capable use of his unique invention- MorphWiz must be a Godsend to his road crew. It's important to note that no Moog synthesizers were harmed in its production."
Keith Emerson.
"It's completely awesome and inspiring to play!
Absolutely loving it!"
Eric Persing-Spectrasonics
MorphWiz is the second app to bear the Jordan Rudess name. MorphWiz is partly inspired by the Haken Continuum Fingerboard, a radically innovative and revolutionary MIDI instrument that Jordan uses on stage and in the studio with Dream Theater.
Like the Continuum, Jordan Rudess' MorphWiz is a vertical grid based musical instrument that allows a whole new level of expressive control!
If you're a beginner, you’ll love experimenting with all of the presets, but if you’re a professional musician, you will soon be blown away by one of the coolest methods of controlling sound that you've ever laid hands on.
Jordan states, “Our goal was to create an instrument that would allow the seamless morphing of the audio and visual domain while delivering a seamless musical experience. I believe the iPhone/iPad multitouch platform opens up a whole new world of creation of electronic musical instruments and we’re proud MorphWiz is our first major offering. My experience and involvement with the Haken Continuum and extraordinary Bebot app brought to life an advanced pitch control system that is still uncharted territory for many in today’s music instrument world. This is the heart of MorphWiz.”
MorphWiz video tutorials:
http://www.morphwiz.com/tutorial.html
Over 80 Jordan Rudess-created patches
FEATURES:
• Assign audio waveforms as visual shapes to the grid and morph between them with your fingers on the grid or the accelerometer
• Advanced pitch control allows the player to round the pitch of the initial attack of any note. It also recognizes when your finger stops after a slide, and rounds your notes to the nearest diatonic pitch
• Rounding pitch on initial attack and/or after a slide
• Independent control for up to 10 simultaneous notes
• Finger Vibrato Effect (FVE) where you can achieve vibrato even when lock pitch is selected and the pitch is snapping to the grid!
• Velocity Controlled Animation (VCA) in sync with your musical performance
• Trippy full-color, animated particles, fire, and ring effects visually radiate under your fingertips and contain real time pitch information
• Choose from a wide variety of scales and chords to assign to the playing surface with easy customization
• Choose to display names of notes or intervals to help guide you
• Performance controls include octave shift, pitch lock on/off, record to delay buffer on/off, infinity delay setting on/off, and multi-function slider
• Unison detuning effect with separate pan control for that classic analog thickness
• FM (Frequency Modulation) synthesis can be assigned to the vertical grid or accelerometer
• Wave Sync Synthesis (WSS) can also be assigned to the vertical grid or accelerometer
• Adjustable note attack and release time
• FX include digital delay, stereo chorus, and tremolo
“Check out Jordan Rudess’s new album with Steve Horelick entitled “interSonic”which features MorphWiz!”
Reviews
Very cool
Christian97CSnowboarder
Great app and a great way to make music once you get the hang of it, but ten bucks is way to much.
Great
tad job
Just one thing. If the buttons on the side is displayed at the same place, for any sound, Even blind guys can enjoy this. Please think about it.
Amazing
mmmitchy
Incredibly fun to play with, the sounds you can come up with is mindblowing. Kudos Jordan, you guys made a great app.
Amazing inststrument
Charky Redbum
I'm a musician, kinda, and I love morph wiz. It's a lot of fun and after playing it you get the sense that the iPad has the potential to be a unique and very usable new format for creating music. My only issue with morph wiz, like others have mentioned, is that despite being such a unique instrument, it doesn't quite make the cut for real song making. It's also a wee bit overpriced. Some feedback: Instruments like thumb jam and even sound Prizm are great for song making. I'd love to see morph wiz put out a second version with some updates. Two of the biggest issues are the lack of usable sound types, and the unfriendly Ui. Please make morph wiz the instrument it could be. It would be awesome to see it reach it's full potential! Good work on developing such a unique tool, and people seriously buy Morph Wiz it's awesome! Thanks!
A few tweaks and i would be happy
JonnHatch
Overall, cool app. I love that you can turn note labels on and off, or scale degrees. It would be ideal if you could have the note name and the scale degree on at the same time. The degree of customization, and the looper, are outstanding.
Stalls...a lot,
HuntinDoug
Cool app for sure, but it seems unstable. I don't see how a musician could rely on it. I found that on the iPad 2 in most patches it stalls, and even crashes as soon as you play 4 notes at a time.
It's a full instrument!
LukeMPaige
For those that complain about the price, just realize that it truly is a full instrument. It's a massive keyboard with the variability of a three hundred dollar piece of tech, and it's a full instrument. Once you get the feel for how it works (there are tutorials online) it's quite easy to experiment with and play. Some fiddling with your device CAN allow music to play while you use Morphwiz (Dream Theater's Instrumental tracks make wonderful playing fields for improvisations), and the recording feature (as well as re-recording) make all your favorite little melodies easy to show off. Awesome app from an awesome artist. 5 stars forever!
Uninspiring sounds
Oioi u
I like the interface and the app functions well enough but the preset selection and sound generation engine is pretty stale. Sounds aren't really conducive to inspiration. It's a shame. I wanted to like this app. It's sort of like a very polished theremin.
