Appmuse

Another great sounding and inspirational synth from Sugar Bytes

Very well done app. Features and sounds are fantastic. I have had the pro version for a couple years now and very satisfied. Only thing really holding it back in my opinion is the resolution of the interface doesn’t hold up on the iPad display. Interface design is great but graphics look pixelated. Might be a nitpick, but there is a reason why these screens are High Resolution. Please update =). Thanks! Show more

Other than that, app has great potential.

Awesome.

It’s awesome ?

I am a man of many words. But Factory has just shut my pie hole. I was dumbstruck in the first hour I spent getting lost in this Ap. The Synthesizer Aps we have today are amazing. Its hard keeping up with the flood of totally great synthesizers now piling up in the iOS world. At last count I have 27 and I love most of them - each for different reasons. But Factory sits atop them all! Sugar Bytes has achieved something great here: a feature-rich, complex instrument that is uniquely versatile and yet still highly accessible and easy to work with. I found myself jamming live with great ease even with very complex patches and also quickly and interactively creating rapidly evolving musical material ...all within a single patch. This goes way beyond creating push-button presets to select as needed. You can an actually /PLAY/ this synthesizer. Its a lot like playing with a modular system except the interface is simpler. In fact it's not hard at all. For the future, I would like to see a better scaled-pads type of on-screen keyboard, such as on AniMoog. You can chose preset scales in Factory, but it leaves the chromatic keyboard on the screen and just nulls out the keys that do not fit in the scale you choose. Sugar Bytes should even consider creating user-defined key-pad tunings so that Factory can get deeper into more abstract musical territory. Show more

Or AuV3… Disappointed

I can’t put it down. Lot’s of presets to get started but after they Get in the way. With a bit of work it’s design is to understand and generates one can find no where else. Sometimes it’s a stop the madness moment and at other times did I really come up with that moment. Definitely the place to start with sound design if you are serious and maybe the place to end. No, there are others but this is right up there with the best. Show more

I love this Synth app. I get lost for hours every time i use this app, you will too. I leave the world this message get off fakebüch & tooter Turn off your cell phone, ditch mainstream media, stop the doom gloom & negativity, Pick up a synthesizer or a good midi controller GO Create beautiful music that is not corporate crap, music that Brings everyone together, and really make the world a better place not just post about it for likes. Show more

Factory delivers. Once you work out it’s layout, it is really intuitive. You have such a rich selection of sounds. You can choose to have one oscillator to bypass the filter. You can set up a massive variety of sequences. Anything can moderate anything. And the mod matrix is visible and can easily be morphed. Effects are great. More and more this is my ‘go to’ synth for wavetables and other sounds that evolve. Show more

This is one of the coolest synths for the price, but it crashes in Cubasis every single time when trying to mix down a track, it will never load the actual sounds you made, this is fun to mess around with but I can’t justify paying almost 20 bucks for something I can’t actually use in a workspace. Show more

Wow! 50 years of playing Synthesizers in every way every day, this blows my mind. I was writing original presets so fast, I couldn’t keep up with the new ideas for new sounds.. Absolutely amazingly Brilliant! Thank you! Filmless Soundtracks Professional Sounds Show more

Top Notch as always with Sugar Bytes.

Magical as usual, I love most of you guys products. Aparillo is a monster as well when unlocked. Looking forward to more patches and products

Everything about Factory is spectacular and easy to use. Everything is in the right place, the modulation matrix is really great. It might seem smallish, but it’s precise, I almost never make mis-taps. Matrix is easy to understand: left side are the Sources, bottom are the Destination. Each item can be changed to anything else, even fx. Make a dot - connection is made. Slide up on the dot to increase mod depth, down to decrease it or even go in the negative values. There’s so much variety to this app that whatever you create is just bound to be original. It is a pleasure and fun to use, and any time I fire it up, I just can’t close it right away as it just draws me in. The synth engine is very good. It’s geared towards the “modern” spectrum, but this fits in with the other aspects of the Factory. This is not something you pick up to make EP sounds, you probably could, but then you would use like 20% of it’s capabilities and there are other synths more focused for those types of sounds. Where Factory shines is it’s multitude of rhythmic ways. This is like the evolution of Cyclop (their older app). Sequencer (16-step) is very configurable and is the heart of the app. It is used for modulating anything you want. In YT videos you can see what it does to the sound. Sugarbytes deemed it important enough to give you 4 of these sequencers, and I concur ;) It’s got a clock divider so you can speed it up/down in sync with the rest of the app, and there’s even a Swing so you can make it “less precise” if you want. The app is AUv3 and Ableton Link so everything is in sync with the rest of your apps, which is crucial for this kind of app of course. (For example Oscilab isn’t and that greatly hampers it’s collaboration with anything else). There’re 2 LFOs and 2 envelopes for a more “traditional” modulation. I really like the Dice which create random settings for certain things like inside matrix and Sequencers. They can often bring me close enough to something interesting and I can then tweak on to what I want. Power Tip: to categorize your presets, best approach I found is, using tags. You have 4 slots of tags you can assign to your preset. You can create your own tags. They’re all listed alphabetically so if you title your tag starting with “!” (!Bass for example) it’ll show up first. That pretty much simulates having folders. To “move” it to another “folder” just change that tag to something else. The app backs up presets to cloud, and you can manage them through Files app Show more

This synth, is great, really great...probably one of my all time favs for creating patches. You can make sounds with this that you just can’t make with other synths, especially using the 4 track sequencer to drive synth parameters. That alone opens soooo many possibilities, plus the ability to morph between patches. And unlocking it lets you use it as an audio unit ( note to other developers, you’re wasting your time if you aren’t making your synth or fx app an audio unit, you’re missing out on sales. Personally I’ve stopped investing money in non audio unit apps for the most part ) Anyway, Factory is easily worthy of 5 stars except for one thing. When you make a song using it in a Daw, the patch doesn’t load correctly for some presets and you have to reload the preset again, so if you’re using a lot of instances, it make it not worth using it to me. I don’t know if there’s ever going to be a fix, but you shouldn’t feel hesitant about using an app, you shouldn’t have to worry about things like presets loading correctly. I would easily give it 5 stars , but right now it kind of a big deal for me not being able to open a song and just listen to it. Show more

Versatile and easy to use once you’ve learned what’s where.

Factory is the best.

This would be my favorite synth if not for one thing: In live performance the CC assign pops up every time I hold a control to SLOWLY modulate parameters. And then the control freezes. So I have to keep put my finger on the control again and again and then move it fast to get it to work right. Some settings are delicate especially morph settings. So I don’t get the smooth changes I want. It makes gradual morphing or mixing impossible. This is pretty close to a deal breaker for me. I’ve written SugarBytes and asked them to provide a “CC ASSIGN OFF” switch in the preferences next to the CC PRESET ISOLATE option. It would be so useful. They said they would add it in an update which I’ve anxiously awaited. But there have been several updates and no improvement on this issue. I hate to complain, considering this is otherwise a perfect synth :( Well, maybe some optional skins would be nice too but that’s not really holding things up. The CC assign IS though. Show more

This app is incredible. Super powerful, packed with features yet relatively easy to use. At firs you I was overwhelmed with all the signal routing possibilities but the app is super logical. I’ll add that the user’s manual for the app is very well written (over 100 pages long!), even just that makes me appreciate the work put towards the app. Thank you! I’m still using the basic free version but will definitely upgrade soon, mainly to be able to use its AUv3 functionality. Show more