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Sliver

4.57 • 18 Ratings

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Sliver is a powerful tool for soundscape and sonic texture creation. Working beautifully with any audio content... melodic, rhythmic, noise, or otherwise, Sliver is well suited for a broad range of project types including: Soundscapes Ambient Drone Glitch Noise Pads Sound Design / Sound Effects Unique Sonic Textures Cinematic Sound Elements Creating a playable instrument from any sound. The core of Sliver is the 4 real-time resizable clips (slivers) that can be moved around the waveform. Each sliver has it’s own channel with independent volume, pan, filter, and sliver size. These controls can be set in motion with Sliver's automation engine. Sliver uses a real-time automation system to movement in your textures. This system also allows for override to be able to shape the ongoing captured performance. The filters and size windows are controlled by XY pads, giving Sliver a natural playability, creating a new type of instrument. Touching along the waveform places, moves, and sizes the slivers, allowing you to intuitively scrub the waveform with a variable loop size. A chain of effects assigned to XY Control pads allows you to shape and mangle the sounds produced by the slivers. You can Automate every control. Sliver uses Apples UIKit Dynamics to create physics on the XY Pads, allowing customized settings for the controls to shape the sound randomly with physics. Sliver supports Audiobus, sitting in an input slot. You can import samples via AudioShare import or Audiocopy. You can resample, record your own samples via the Mic, or do both at once. This app uses Background Audio and Records from the Mic. You will see a red bar when placing the app in the background. Sliver supports MIDI learn and is fully controllable from Virtual, Network, and MIDI hardware. Make some noises, mangle some sounds, create your own soundscape. Features: 4 Real-time Manipulation Slivers 4 Independent Audio Channels Full Automation Control Apple UIKit Dynamics Physics Controls 8 X/Y Pad control Touchable Waveform Low Pass Filter Temp Sync'ed Delay Reverb Realtime Pitch-shifting without effecting Time Domain (TimeStretch) BitCrush Saturation Audiobus Support AudioShare Import/Export Email Import/Export (Sounds and Presets) AudioCopy/Paste Sample Recording Resampling Playable Virtual Keyboard MIDI (Virtual, Network, or Hardware) MIDI Learn 40+ Factory Samples 60 Factory Presets
What’s New
MIDI ADSR uses an envelope on audio that Sliver is generating. This envelope is triggered by receiving MIDI note on information. MIDI ADSR is now off by default when opening Sliver. When you turn MIDI ADSR on it will display a status message while on. This change is to avoid confusion while MIDI ADSR is on and not receiving MIDI data, it appears that Sliver does not produce audio.
Version 1.07
Version History

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Ratings and Reviews

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4.57
out of 5
18 Ratings
  • Kurt52, 23.02.2022
    Broken
    Will not load in effects slot in AUM. Launching in background crashes AUM on iPad Pro. Frustrating.
  • Leestro, 25.08.2019
    A real sleeper
    Great unique little app, industrial music for industrial people. Can be unwieldy at times but fun to experiment with. Long audio files tend to be more drifty and noisy or ambient, short audio files tend to be more musical. I love that the dev keeps updating it, unlike many bigger devs on Apple Store I could mention. Thank you Alex M. Show more
  • thenoneone, 16.05.2019
    Nothing works now
    After the May 2019 update, no sound and various parameters are just visually vibrating all over the place with nothing happening sound wise! Please fix!
  • anickt, 03.09.2018
    Great app...
    But it really needs an update. That being said, it still does some cool stuff.
  • mrdogheadSHoGoAT, 08.03.2018
    Another creative, exciting Mathieu sound/music development tool
    If I have to read another genius review calling an app a “toy” and not (pick a word for some category of thing we are meant to presume is somehow better than a toy and insert it here), a piece of my poor, unreality-damaged American brain will likely shrivel down to a useless stump. At which point, I suppose, I will cease to register bull dink until such time as the brain can regenerate a new meaninglessness meter. If I can get to a place detached from the internet and news of White House briefings. Enough of that. Sliver is not perfect. It really could benefit from basic usability updates focused on bringing precision and control to the creative chaos it brilliantly brings to music making and sound design. When I want some inspirational sound mangling that is nonetheless musical, Sliver provides it. Bringing it to heel, however, is real work. To some extent, it cannot be done. This lack of parameter precision is not a fatal flaw, but it does limit how and when I use the app. I would use Sliver much more often and put it to better use if I could impose a little bit more method onto the frequently lovely madness it encourages. It would not be a huge amount of development work to add more numerical control to or along with the blocks and the X/Y pads, for example. Yet even those changes would much improve usability. My use of the app revolves around copying audio into Sliver, making something almost completely different, recording the result, and exporting/copying that recording to some other app. I suspect this is the intended workflow, and that is fine by me. There is no reason to hesitate about getting the app if you need some craziness in your music. But there is at the same time ample reason for Alex to make some UI and functional changes to increase the scope of what Sliver can do. Show more
  • Ben Efitofadoubt, 07.03.2017
    Just rediscovered this beauty
    Excellent soundscaping instrument. Also, check out the same developer's Glitchbreaks. It's another winner. Recommended!
  • ill91977, 29.10.2016
    Fantastic effects
    Spent the last hour making brilliant sounds and jamming with Addictive Pro and Drum Jam + Sliver in AudioBus. iPad Air 2, iOS 9.3.5. Glad I picked this up.
  • rcon303, 02.12.2015
    still amazing and essential
    i love this app and the presets are amazing and easy to get lost in and listen to and space out... so simple and fun to use and the results are always superb!lots and lots of fun Show more
  • Triplanetary, 27.06.2015
    Interesting and cool, not a new instrument
    Fun, a lot of territory to explore, it has the potential to find a place in my standing rig, but it crashed under the simplest of conditions. This was the only app running on my Ipad at the time and the app crashes For now it is a toy, not a tool. Show more

Information

  • Category
  • Age Rating
    4+
  • Price
    5.99 USD
  • Size
    35.1 MB
  • Provider
    Alex Matheu
Languages
English
Copyright
© 2004-2024 Alexander Matheu. All rights reserved.