App Shopper: Grain Science (Music)

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Mar 27 '12	Version 1.3.1
Mar 21 '12	Version 1.3
Feb 07 '12	Version 1.2
Jan 20 '12	Version 1.1
Dec 22 '11	New App: $9.99, v1.0

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Grain Science

iOS Universal

The outstanding iPad synth now comes to iPhone and iPod touch!

★ Palm Sounds App of the Week (Christmas 2011) ★ iDesignSound App of the Week (January 2012) ★ “I ☺☺☺☺ing love this thing!” — Discchord video review ★

Grain Science is a beautiful synthesiser for iOS. Designed for musicians, soundscape artists and SFX engineers who want to go beyond our Sylo Synthesiser, Grain Science is built on similar principles of granular synthesis, but is vastly more powerful. Unlike many “experimental” granular apps, Grain Science mixes it up with traditional synthesis techniques to make an exciting hybrid synthesiser.

Use the built-in waveforms, or record or import your own — then use the sophisticated grain engine to create something completely new from them! Grain Science is easy to get to grips with, but offers lots of depth to explore: instead of offering one or two LFOs, almost any parameter in the system can be programmed to vary over time in complex ways.

Using new optimisations available in iOS 5, we can provide two grain units per voice, which you can combine for morphing or complex modulated sounds, then send through a configurable FX chain. Pick any 4 from the collection of FX units (including various types of distortion, high- and low-pass filters, phaser, flanger, chorus, resonance and echo), and connect them up in any order. Other audio tweaks include soft loop, reverb, glide and supercharger controls, and the ability to affect granular synthesis in realtime (live grainbending).

Also featured are an arpeggiator with both chord and step-sequence modes; Core MIDI support, including Virtual MIDI, background audio, and “tap & twist” learning for setting up controls; and a customisable performance screen with a collection of XY Pads and wheels.

Rounding it off, Grain Science plays nicely with others: Dropbox, Twitter and email integration are all included, for sharing or exporting your waveforms, recordings of your performances, and instrument (patch) designs.

Hear Grain Science in action at http://soundcloud.com/wooji-juice

What's new

Version 1.3.1:

• Fix: Removed some beta-testing commands accidentally present in v1.3
• Fix: Issue when adjusting multiple arpeggiator steps at once
• Fix: Issue when swiping to delete files from your device

Version 1.3:

This update is packed with features — more than we can list here, so we're just listing the highlights! For full details, see http://www.wooji-juice.com/blog/grain-science-1-3.html

• iPhone and iPod touch support: Grain Science is now a Universal app, one purchase works on all your iOS devices. With Retina graphics for 4/4S and the new iPad!

• Arpeggiator 2.0: The arpeggiator has been rewritten to offer tonnes of new power and flexibility

• Ribbon Controller & Velocity: You can now use MIDI velocity to control synth parameters — even without a MIDI device, using the new on-screen Ribbon Controller

• G-1000 Shapeinator: A new fully customisable wave-shaping FX unit.