5.2
2023-10-19
General
- Completely rebuilt/recoded
- Universal app now for iOS and macOS
- Improved audio unit stability
- Simplified audio/midi routing
- Improved layout of manual
- Physical keyboard now also usable with iOS
- Single all-in-one in-app-purchase for all functions
Deprecations
- Inter-App Audio and Preset Center are discontinued
- Preset Center remains accessible online at voicesynth.com/presets.html
5.1.5
2020-07-12
Fixes crashing audio units
5.1.4
2020-07-11
Fixes crash when opening midi bluetooth panel
5.1.3
2020-06-24
• iOS compatibility
5.1.2
2019-08-12
Fixes issue with sampler play/pause/stop button on iPhone
5.1.1
2019-05-17
Fixes issue with VoiceOver
5.1
2019-04-24
• Support for touch-recording of audio unit parameter automation
• Support for Inter-App Audio (iOS), instrument & effect
5.0.7
2018-12-04
• Voice repeater can be bypassed to force live mode without headset
• Bug fixes
5.0.6
2018-10-11
Bug fixes
5.0.3
2018-07-21
• Allow explicit selection of bluetooth audio device types (microphones, HiFi speakers)
• Fixes crash when (dis)connecting Bluetooth midi devices
• Both audio input and output can now be rerouted
• Re-enabled compatibility with iOS10
New in V5.0
• Audio Units V3 for use in DAWs as instrument (sampler mode) and effect (live mode)
• New macOS version, preset compatible with iOS!
• iPhone X support
• Choose audio route
• Compatibility with output-only bluetooth speakers
• Connect directly with bluetooth midi devices (without need for a 3rd party app)
• Minor changes input/output gain trimming, mic thru on/off
• More than 50 new presets, total 250+
Modular (free) version
• Permanent and more functional free try-out
• Sampler and Designer are now included in "Instrument" module, also for existing customers!
5.0.2
2018-06-27
• Increased compatibility for various 3rd party DAW Audio Unit window resize schemes and parameter automation
• Name change for free version into Voice Synth Modular
New in V5.0
• Audio Units V3 for use in DAWs as instrument (sampler mode) and effect (live mode)
• New macOS version, preset compatible with iOS!
• iPhone X support
• Choose audio route (input & output on macOS, input only on iOS)
• Compatibility with output-only bluetooth speakers
• Connect directly with bluetooth midi devices (without need for a 3rd party app)
• Minor changes input/output gain trimming, mic thru on/off
• More than 50 new presets, total 250+
Modular version
• Permanent and more functional free try-out
• Sampler and Designer are now included in "Instrument" module, also for existing customers!
5.0.1
2018-06-06
• Audio Units V3 for use in DAWs as instrument (sampler mode) and effect (live mode)
• New macOS version, preset compatible with iOS!
• iPhone X support
• Choose audio route (input & output on macOS, input only on iOS)
• Compatibility with output-only bluetooth speakers
• Connect directly with bluetooth midi devices (without need for a 3rd party app)
• Minor changes input/output gain trimming, mic thru on/off
• More than 50 new presets, total 250+
• Permanent and more functional free try-out
• Sampler and Designer are now included in "Instrument" module, also for existing customers!
5.0
2018-06-05
• Audio Units V3 for use in DAWs as instrument (sampler mode) and effect (live mode)
• New macOS version, preset compatible with iOS!
• iPhone X support
• Choose audio route (input & output on macOS, input only on iOS)
• Compatibility with output-only bluetooth speakers
• Connect directly with bluetooth midi devices (without need for a 3rd party app)
• Minor changes input/output gain trimming, mic thru on/off
• More than 50 new presets, total 250+
• Permanent and more functional free try-out
• Sampler and Designer are now included in "Instrument" module, also for existing customers!
4.1
2016-08-13
• Vocoder mix is now directly accessible among the general effects (was on audio-midi panel)
• Chorus mix/depth are integrated into one control
• Fixes rare crash with zoomed display on iPad Pro
• Several small improvements
Voice Synth V4.0 comes with a complete interface restyle and an incredible new palette of sound design options!
• Complete interface restyle
- Easier navigation on both iPhone and iPad (smaller panels no longer cover menus)
- Central menu bar on iPhone
- Rotational knobs respond also to linear movements
- Direct access on main screen for Inter-App-Audio (IAA) host/transport, sampler transport, tape rec and preset save
- VoiceOver now includes all functions
• Register Panel
- Extends the original low/high registers to 49 registers
- Set and fix a chord
- Toggling keys to ease sound design
• Scale Panel
- Choose among 6 preset scales: major, minor, harmonic minor, pentatonic, augmented, diminished
- Design your own musical scale by selecting individual notes
- Move through scales by fifths or chromatically
• Arpeggiator Panel
- With up, down, up-down, down-up, 1-4 octaves, gate and speed setting
- Create complex musical patterns with note combinations on keyboard and registers
- Group notes into chords for keyboard and/or registers
• Designer Panel
- Design your own vocoder sound with wave synthesis
- Real time oscilloscope, what you see is what you hear!
- Mix additive, maximum and multiplicative (ringmodulation) synthesis
- Multiplicator includes phase sync/speed adjustment and
- Partial multiplications (take square root or other fractional powers) to
- Create additional low frequencies and chorus-like effects
- Sine wave with adjustable frequency, harmonics, clipping
- Square wave with adjustable frequency, width and slope
- Triangle/sawtooth with adjustable frequency, skew and clipping
- Noise white or voiced, with adjustable filter and clipping (e.g. for shot noise)
- Test mode to design while bypassing your own voice (use Designer as a synthesizer)
• New features and improvements
- Manually pause your voice in live mode
- Mic-thru switch to talk clean or compare with designed sound
- Use midi footswitches to control live-pause and mic-thru
- Vocoder mix to add in your unprocessed voice, e.g. dress up beat-boxing
- Automated selection between repeated live (built-in mic/speaker) and true live (headset or other)
- Select autopitch and pitch tracking/speed independently
- Samples can be fully integrated within a preset
- Adjustable sample speed/direction and pause
- More import, export & share options, including iCloud and AirDrop
- Unlimited number of presets, samples and tapes
- Favorite marking of presets and samples
- Online manual in readable form, accessible within the app
- Hosting of IAA input, pre/post effect while being hosted by e.g. Garageband
- Improved noise gate, both manual and automatic
- Adaptive noise reduction, with bypass for high-quality mics
- Improved autogain limiter, pitch tracking, stereo panning and stereo delay
- Synchronize timing of sampler, arpeggiator, delay and strobo voice
- Adjust which settings are included in presets, e.g. samples, musical scale
- Polyphony up to 24 voices (depending on your iOS device's processor)
- Now 200+ factory presets with incredible sounds!
4.0.1
2016-06-03
• Fixes issues with the manual, VoiceOver, and certain midi hardware controllers
• In the free version, we streamlined the in-app purchases and free try-out.
• Designer is now part of Pro Tools: everyone that bought either Designer or Pro, gets the other for free!
Voice Synth V4.0 comes with a complete interface restyle and an incredible new palette of sound design options!
• Complete interface restyle
- Easier navigation on both iPhone and iPad (smaller panels no longer cover menus)
- Central menu bar on iPhone
- Rotational knobs respond also to linear movements
- Direct access on main screen for Inter-App-Audio (IAA) host/transport, sampler transport, tape rec and preset save
- VoiceOver now includes all functions
• Register Panel
- Extends the original low/high registers to 49 registers
- Set and fix a chord
- Toggling keys to ease sound design
• Scale Panel
- Choose among 6 preset scales: major, minor, harmonic minor, pentatonic, augmented, diminished
- Design your own musical scale by selecting individual notes
- Move through scales by fifths or chromatically
• Arpeggiator Panel
- With up, down, up-down, down-up, 1-4 octaves, gate and speed setting
- Create complex musical patterns with note combinations on keyboard and registers
- Group notes into chords for keyboard and/or registers
• Designer Panel
- Design your own vocoder sound with wave synthesis
- Real time oscilloscope, what you see is what you hear!
- Mix additive, maximum and multiplicative (ringmodulation) synthesis
- Multiplicator includes phase sync/speed adjustment and
- Partial multiplications (take square root or other fractional powers) to
- Create additional low frequencies and chorus-like effects
- Sine wave with adjustable frequency, harmonics, clipping
- Square wave with adjustable frequency, width and slope
- Triangle/sawtooth with adjustable frequency, skew and clipping
- Noise white or voiced, with adjustable filter and clipping (e.g. for shot noise)
- Test mode to design while bypassing your own voice (use Designer as a synthesizer)
• New features and improvements
- Manually pause your voice in live mode
- Mic-thru switch to talk clean or compare with designed sound
- Use midi footswitches to control live-pause and mic-thru
- Voice-Vocoder slider to mix in your own voice, e.g. dress up beat-boxing
- Automated selection between repeated live (built-in mic/speaker) and true live (headset or other)
- Select autopitch and pitch tracking/speed independently
- Samples can be fully integrated within a preset
- Adjustable sample speed/direction and pause
- More import, export & share options, including iCloud and AirDrop
- Unlimited number of presets, samples and tapes
- Favorite marking of presets and samples
- Online manual in readable form, accessible within the app
- Hosting of IAA input, pre/post effect while being hosted by e.g. Garageband
- Improved noise gate, both manual and automatic
- Adaptive noise reduction, with bypass for high-quality mics
- Improved autogain limiter, pitch tracking, stereo panning and stereo delay
- Synchronize timing of sampler, arpeggiator, delay and strobo voice
- Adjust which settings are included in presets, e.g. samples, musical scale
- Polyphony up to 24 voices (depending on your iOS device's processor)
- Discontinuation of iTunes FileSharing (in favor of iCloud)
- Now 200+ factory presets with incredible sounds!
4.0
2016-04-23
Major update with a complete interface restyle and an incredible new palette of sound design options!
• Complete interface restyle
- Easier navigation on both iPhone and iPad (smaller panels no longer cover menus)
- Central menu bar on iPhone
- Rotational knobs respond also to linear movements
- Direct access on main screen for Inter-App-Audio (IAA) host/transport, sampler transport, tape rec and preset save
- VoiceOver now includes all functions
• Register Panel
- Extends the original low/high registers to 49 registers
- Set and fix a chord
- Toggling keys to ease sound design
• Scale Panel
- Choose among 6 preset scales: major, minor, harmonic minor, pentatonic, augmented, diminished
- Design your own musical scale by selecting individual notes
- Move through scales by fifths or chromatically
• Arpeggiator Panel
- With up, down, up-down, down-up, 1-4 octaves, gate and speed setting
- Create complex musical patterns with note combinations on keyboard and registers
- Group notes into chords for keyboard and/or registers
• Designer Panel
- Design your own vocoder sound with wave synthesis
- Real time oscilloscope, what you see is what you hear!
- Mix additive, maximum and multiplicative (ringmodulation) synthesis
- Multiplicator includes phase sync/speed adjustment and
- Partial multiplications (take square root or other fractional powers) to
- Create additional low frequencies and chorus-like effects
- Sine wave with adjustable frequency, harmonics, clipping
- Square wave with adjustable frequency, width and slope
- Triangle/sawtooth with adjustable frequency, skew and clipping
- Noise white or voiced, with adjustable filter and clipping (e.g. for shot noise)
- Test mode to design while bypassing your own voice (use Designer as a synthesizer)
• New features and improvements
- Manually pause your voice in live mode
- Mic-thru switch to talk clean or compare with designed sound
- Use midi footswitches to control live-pause and mic-thru
- Voice-Vocoder slider to mix in your own voice, e.g. dress up beat-boxing
- Automated selection between repeated live (built-in mic/speaker) and true live (headset or other)
- Select autopitch and pitch tracking/speed independently
- Samples can be fully integrated within a preset
- Adjustable sample speed/direction and pause
- More import, export & share options, including iCloud and AirDrop
- Unlimited number of presets, samples and tapes
- Favorite marking of presets and samples
- Online manual in readable form, accessible within the app
- Hosting of IAA input, pre/post effect while being hosted by e.g. Garageband
- Improved noise gate, both manual and automatic
- Adaptive noise reduction, with bypass for high-quality mics
- Improved autogain limiter, pitch tracking, stereo panning and stereo delay
- Synchronize timing of sampler, arpeggiator, delay and strobo voice
- Adjust which settings are included in presets, e.g. samples, musical scale
- Polyphony up to 24 voices (depending on your iOS device's processor)
- Discontinuation of iTunes FileSharing (in favor of iCloud)
- Now 200+ factory presets with incredible sounds!