Unique for iPhone
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | $4.99 | Sugar Bytes GmbH | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Unique was made for fun and vibes: Analogue sound, intense modulation and a killer set of features, delivering an amazing sonic spectrum that’s full of character: Classy sounds, powerful, warm… sometimes gritty.
Each of the 2 oscillators offers a selection of 5 waveforms: sawtooth and pulse waves are here, along with noise, triple saw and triple FM waves. There's also an additional sub-oscillator strapped into the master section for added oomph.
The internal controllers will bring in the dynamics: an LFO and an envelope, there's a recordable XY field & a sequencer. Use these to modulate any knob – a simple long tap will do.
The sound springs to life when it hits the filter section. Needless to say, analogue high-pass, low-pass and band-pass varieties are in place, along with a comb filter.
Standards aside, the actual intention behind this project, the Vowel Filter, also became its outstanding feature: string together two or four vowel formants and play them back in a multitude of ways.
Once you’ve built your sound, there’s tons of sound polish in two chained multi-effect units.
Features
• Sawtooth, Triple Saw, Pulse, Triple FM, Noise with tonal Filter, Sub Sine
• 5 Filters with 5 Modulators each
• Duophone Arpeggiator
• Vowel Filter
• Two Effect Sections
• Ableton Link Kit & AudioBus
• MIDI Learn & Host Automation
• 300 groovy presets by various artists
Reviews
Thank you for AU3 update!
magnusxelsv
This has always been a really good app sonically but on my iPhone it ran somewhat poorly and wouldn’t even run in Audiobus 3 recently. AU3 seems to be running butter smooth in AB, I hope to get a lot more use out of this cool synth now.
Postage Stamp Sized GUI With AU Update
Philowerx
Unique is a decent sounding synth but the AU plugin update is pretty terrible as the interface is about the size of a postage stamp making the knobs and controls really fiddly even with the little pop up numerical windows. The Unique AU GUI is tiny in BeatMaker 3, Cubasis 2 and AUM. Please make it a full screen AU like Moog Model 15, Bram Bos and the majority of other iOS AU compatible apps and I'll boost the star rating. Thanks.
Outstanding synth, needs slight tweaking
Obis11
I love unique. Making great sounds with little effort is the best trait of Unique. The interface is intuitive and makes producing with Unique a joy. The problem is it's laggy, a little laggy on my iPhone 6 Plus and even more laggy on my 7 plus. Unique is usable on the 6 plus but on my 7 plus, I'll have to wait for an update to use it normally. Seems like a small fix (hopefully anyway) that I'll be glad to see soon.
Really laggy visually.
Natemasterflex
I'm running IPhone 7plus 256gb and this synth is super unresponsive and slow. Big disappointment. I have all of Sugar Bytes plugins. I really like them and they sound and run great. This is the first bad one I've got. I have Unique for my MacBook and use it with Ableton Live 9 with no issues ever. This is a different UI than the original. Hopefully this just needs some easy work by them to be as good as the rest. Fingers crossed!!! Update: As of 11-25-17 this synth is still unusable on my 256gb iPhone 7 Plus. It is a lot better now, but still completely unusable. The lag issues are just insane. No idea why this hasn’t been fixed!!!! I love Sugar Bytes stuff, in fact I just bought a bunch more of their newest stuff for my studio on Black Friday because it’s fantastic on my Mac. So, come on Sugar Bytes get your act together on this port to iPhone!!!
Super laggy on iPhone 6+
TheRealDutchee
After all this time i would have expected they figured out how to make this synth run smoother on the newer devices. Still as laggy as on my iPad Pro. My older iPad Air 1 is the only device that i own on which this synth runs smooth. Go figure... the more powerful and newer the device the more laggy this app runs. It really has held me back using this app that often as my other synths. I can't recommend this app for anyone that has a newer iPhone or iPad.
