PIANA 2.0 multi-synth test

Published on Feb 3, 2014 Pi Synth·31 videos

"This is synth pap at its worst, and makes me laugh out loud. A couple of weeks ago I set the completion criteria for PIANA 2.0 as a synth engine - a) it must be capable of playing a reasonable version of Being Boiled, and (for some reason) b) it must be capable of playing a version of Mama Weer All Crazee Now in the style of The Future. Sadly there is nothing remotely Marsh-n-Ware about this, except the glamtastic handclaps - it's all rather Popcorn by Hot Butter. But it's done.

8 synths, 4 of them percussive - an unused 'snappy tom', the Don Powell shuffle snare, the '808' kick which is just the resonant filter and an EG, and the Glitterclap. The 4 tuned synths are affectionately 'Jim', 'Nod Guitar', 'Dave' and 'Nod Guide Vocal' - I had to stick in the melody line of the vocal because I could not for the life of me work out what the notes were supposed to be in the chorus. Perfect pitch passed me by when the skillsets were handed out at birth.

The weird timing glitches are because this was sequenced in Logic, then played over WiFi to the iPad, and that is about as bad as it gets for MIDI timing.

Total CPU consumption, 65% of a single core of an iPad 2. All sounds 'analog', as in no samples at all - just LFSR noise generator, virtual oscillators, virtual EGs and virtual filters.

I shouldn't be rude about it, it really is quite sweet."