Category | Price | Seller | Device |
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Music | $12.99 | Retronyms Inc | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
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Phase84 is a Tabletop Ready App. Combine Phase84 with drum machines, sequencers, effects, and more inside Tabletop — a free modular music app for iPad.
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Phase84 is an extremely capable synthesizer and features over 110 presets, containing all sorts of basses, leads, pads, bell tones, sweeps, atmospheric sounds, pseudo-realistic tones, and more. While you don't need to know much about synthesizers to get a lot out of Phase84, experienced synth tweakers will be thrilled at the sheer variety of unique sounds that can be produced with this incredibly versatile synth.
So What's Phase84 All About?
Phase84 is what's known as a Phase Distortion synthesizer. This form of waveshaping synthesis has its roots in Casio’s brilliant CZ line of digital synthesizers from the 80s. It is designed to have the warmth of a subtractive (analog) synthesizer, yet be capable of the squelchy tones and sharp attacks of an FM synth. Phase84 in particular can create warm pads, glitchy sounds, dirty basses, filthy sweeps, screaming leads, and anything in-between.
For those familiar with the typical Moog-like (or iMini-like!) synthesis, think of the "shaper" as being synonymous with "brightness" or "filter cutoff”.
Features:
More than 100 presets.
MIDI support.
inter-App Audio support.
Advanced Keyboard section.
Expressive Perform Mode with Groove Gate.
Tabletop Ready App.
Precision Knob mode.
Phat, naturalistic unison feature for super thick pads and sweeps.
Oscillator Section: 9 Params, 2 General-Purpose Oscillators, 1 Formant Oscillator.
Mix Section: 8 Params including Delay Amount and Pulse Width.
Envelope Section: Amplitude and Shaper Envelopes. Fully visualized and interactive ADSR plus special Fade Param.
Delay/Filter Section: Stereo delay with loss modeling and a punchy overdriven analog-style filter.
3 LFOs: More flexible than your average LFO, this has 4 waveforms, optional delay and repeat count, and can go into the audible frequency range.
EFFIN' AWESOME...love it so far, a very cool Christmas gift to myself...I just love synths!
Decent synth. Sadly, my capacity to utilize it is marred by Retronyms' continued resistance to implementing Audiobus. It's a shame - and kind of gross - the way this company operates.
Wow this synth has awesome bass. I picked twelve or so favorites and made my first bassline phrase in Tabletop, then switched the Phrase84 bass to the other favorites to make a few more bassline. Audiocopied the bassline phrase into a melody on Cubasis and here's the sample: Please check out "Cruising Phase84" on Soundcloud.
I really hate having to adjust the keyboard zoom every time I go to use it it should remember where I had it last.. Please fix
This is an incredible synth.That has finally given me hope for Retronyms as maker of synths for the iPad. It is fat ,really well thought out and has true phase distortion type sound as well as big basses and killer pads that morph AND cut through and sit well in a mix. Wow! Plus the modulation matrix is really fun to experiment with!incredible! Peace Christo
new review .. it works with ipad mini 3 and ios 9.1 .the app and now it........basic cz101 inspired synth.. great sounding...
The synth itself sounds great - you can clearly see that from the reviews. What really makes it awesome is the support! Retronyms was extremely quick to reply to an issue I had, and had already prepared and submitted a fix. After the fix was published they even followed up with an email to let me know. Great service and great sounding addition to my sonic toolbox!
I own most of the top rated synths for iPad and this Phase84 is fantastic. A+ for Ease of Programming/workflow. A+ for Sound. Great for beginner & advanced sound designers. Buy it if you are hesitating. Now...well...what are you waiting for. Do it!!!