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Roxsyn Guitar Synthesizer

4.7 • 21 Ratings

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Introducing a revolutionary new way to turn your guitar or bass into a fully featured polyphonic synth: Roxsyn, the world’s first metamorphic guitar synthesizer. Expressive, fast and responsive to every nuance, it is a league apart from all other guitar synths to date. Unhappy with cold and temperamental guitar-to-MIDI synths that dominate the market, we developed a completely new approach to guitar synthesis. Our all-original technology synthesizes your guitar directly, without the use of MIDI notes. Rescued from being a poor keyboard substitute, your guitar suddenly becomes an integral part of the synth. It's alive! There is no pitch tracking involved. There are no pitch estimation errors, octave glitches, or garbled chords. There is no over-complicated G2M between your guitar and synth to destroy everything human about your playing. Instead, Roxsyn’s metamorphic sound generation technology retains all the personality of your sound: vibrato, slides, bends, dynamics, even extended technique. The result is a polyphonic synthesizer that is as fast and accurate as it is richly expressive. No need for special MIDI pickups or hardware, either: just plug into your favorite Lightning/USB audio interface, and start synthing! ::Powerful Synth Engine:: Roxsyn’s big synth heart is its three metamorphic signal generators (AKA oscillators). Each generator offers 5 unique waveforms, and has a 4+ octave range to cover a wide spectrum of frequencies. They also feature stereo panning, and can route into either of Roxsyn’s dual filter banks. You can even dial in your guitar directly into the synth engine for even bigger sounds. ::Dual Filter Banks:: Each containing four custom virtual-analog filter types and dedicated envelopes, the filter banks help sculpt the synth generators in countless new ways. The envelopes are specially designed for the guitar, and are driven by a fully adjustable automatic trigger generator controlled by your playing dynamics. Envelopes offer original features like finite-duration sustain stages, as well as the ability to receive or ignore trigger-off messages. They can also be triggered externally via MIDI controllers like an expression pedal. An additonal envelope controls the amplitude of the signal, giving you even more options in creating synth sounds. ::Arpeggiator:: Instantly transform sustained guitar notes into fast (or slow), complex patterns with Roxsyn’s powerful yet easy to use arp. There are 8 stepping algorithms to choose from, as well as settable note value, swing, and note repeats. You can even route the arp to any combination of the 3 voice generators — enabling you to layer a non-arpeggiated sound with an arp pattern. What's more, the arp can send trigger signals into any of Roxsyn’s 4 envelopes, and even reset the LFOs. So it’s also a handy rhythmic / trance tool as well! ::Modulation & FX:: Roxsyn’s user friendly modulation matrix lets you manipulate parameters (pitch, amplitude, filters, etc) using its two LFOs and mod envelope. Add subtle vibrato, even glide simulation, or go full-on berserk. LFOs each have 9 waveforms, and feature beat syncing. Each matrix row can take LFOs or the mod envelope as a modulator or control, and can even use external control sources. And if you like your synths on the spicy side, Roxsyn comes with top-notch stereo FX specially developed to evoke extra synthiness: Powerful algorithmic reverb with the sound of countless rooms, phasing, modulating, 2-channel delay, and graphic EQ. ::Pro Features:: 500+ factory presets with bass, lead, pad, arp sounds & more. Easily create & share your own presets. Audio Unit v3, IAA, Audiobus, Ableton Link. 64-bit processing at up to 96kHz. 160+ MIDI controllable parameters; MIDI learn & map save/share. Tapedeck (in the app), so you can record, loop & share your ideas on the go. Just some of Roxsyn’s professional features that make life and music a little bit easier.
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Version 1.0
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4.7
out of 5
21 Ratings
  • JD4AKJB, 03.08.2022
    Best damned app for iPad + guitar
    Bought this app for 0.99. I can’t stop playing with it on my iPads with the apogee jam interface!!! So many sounds professional sounding arps & synths with pads and bass synths. For me a jakoff guitar player, I love it because I don’t have to know music theory or guitar to play it because it does it all rhythm tempo plus you can get lost in designing your own sounds! Great job Roxsyn keep up the good work! Show more
  • How GH, 27.02.2022
    7 stars... I really mean it. 7 stars.
    The open ended capacity of this app is mind blowing. Started playing with it a month ago. It's responsive, brilliant, wild. The developer is a masterful cocreator for my music. It's a pleasure playing with you, brother… Show more
  • Please tweak this app, 11.09.2021
    Amazing
    Unique ! The tones are amazing. One can edit the tones in literally an infinite amount of variation. I have been messing with this for hours and have been drawn in to the point where I forgot to eat lunch. I don’t believe there is anything quite like this on the App Store. Show more
  • Toneman182, 19.07.2021
    Worth every penny
    Great app! Very cool guitar synth at a fraction of the price. I’d be happy to pay for an upgrade for more waveforms/waveshapers too. Really fun product, no midi, no tracking delays! Show more
  • Nomad Scorpio, 05.04.2021
    Wow....just...wow...
    I am a keyboardist first and foremost and I’m okay at playing guitar but I can’t seem to put the guitar down now since I got this app...it’s a game changer!! Just a total different perspective on what you can do with strings. I remember a friend having the Roland GR1 way back in the 90’s and that thing never came close to what you can do with this... it’s simply amazing I have had a constant smile on my face since I plugged into it, so much fun! Show more
  • Aladdin Wannabe, 08.12.2020
    I love the response, but...Developers please add some features
    This is the best guitar synth that picks up all the dynamics that other midi guitar synths don’t..It doesn’t have limited sound that gives off like the other apps, its very expressive with stuff like bending notes and vibrato. I just wish that the voices provided in this app also included saw wave, sine wave etc. All the sounds start sounding the same after a while. This app has a lot of potential to have a guitar player/ synthesist change the instrument of a synthesizer. The guitar is way more expressive than the piano because of how human it is to press a note on a fret and have it slightly off pitch when bending it just a little..the piano is so rigid in playing notes..sure they have a pitch wheel but its not as expressive as shaking notes on a guitar with your finger or whammy bar. If they have the traditional sounds like the sine wave and sawtooth, synthesizer players might consider playing a guitar instead..like what if there can be a foot pedal that can allow you to oscillate manually like a wah pedal. Please add the feature of adding the traditional sine wave and sawtooth, triangle, square etc. voices Show more
  • Tommyapplesauce, 07.10.2020
    Doesn’t work wih external midi
    It even recognizes my midi controller but just won’t work...and sine it has no built in virtual keyboard...it’s practically useless right now
  • Raymond Breed, 20.09.2020
    Some presets make no sound
    I really like the app. All in all it works very good. Only two issues. Some of the presets produce no sound. Most do, but some just have no sound. Also, it’s output level is a little to inconsistent and low for actual live use. Otherwise, very fun, and 100% worth downloading. Show more
  • Luis4ngel50, 29.01.2020
    Great app!
    I bought this app because I thought it had the ability to be used as a MIDI instrument on other DAWS like midi guitar 2 but it seems like this is not capable. Otherwise great app. I would give it 5 stars if it had that function. Show more

Information

  • Category
  • Age Rating
    4+
  • Price
    19.99 USD
  • Size
    34.75 MB
  • Provider
    Yonac Inc.
Languages
English
Copyright
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