Celestine for iPad: My real‑time granular device is now an AUv3

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ijo audio also brought us Polycrush 16 - 8-bit synthesizer for Ableton Live

"Celestine is a real-time granular AUv3 audio effect for the iPad. It's always listening and always spitting out grains. If you've been following my channel for some time, you'll know that Celestine started out as a Max4Live device... my most successful one to date. Many people have asked for it to be ported to other platforms and this marks the beginning of that journey. I've spent the last few months on this. I've also got future plans to release Celestine as a VST3/AU for other desktop DAW users.

Just like the original, this iPad version aims for the immediacy of a pedal and the depth of a granular instrument. There are eight granular modes: classic Grain clouds, Mosaic’s harmonic tiles, Glide’s tape‑like swoops, Reverie’s reverse washes, Bloom’s halos, Tide’s pulsing waves, Stars’ sequenced sparkles and Orbit’s swirling stereo motion. Everything stays tempo‑locked when you want it to in Sync mode, the (now touch-based) visualizer lets you perform playhead and pitch gestures on the fly, and the grain panel offers control over density, size, spray, jitter, reverse probability and more.

To shape the final output, Celestine includes a 'Magic panel' of various multi-FX to sweeten things, a lush reverb and a Dirt section with wavefolding and a bitcrusher. Use Celestine as an insert effect and set the dry/wet to taste or put it fully wet on a send to let fragments of your entire session bloom into shimmering clouds. I’ve found it shines on vocals, guitars, synths and pianos, but percussion can turn into glittering glitches and rhythmic sparkles too. I've also added undo/redo, a full preset system and a constrained randomizer to jump to new ideas quickly.

As I mentioned, I’m planning future releases for VST3/AU on desktop, so this is just the beginning of Celestine’s journey. For now, I hope you enjoy sculpting sounds on the couch, in the bathtub or wherever you like to use your iPad. :)

Celestine for iPadOS has an introductory price of $5.99 USD for the first two weeks and then will jump up to $9.99.

Celestine on the App Store

Also, I've recently started up a Discord server and while it's still small, I'd love for you to join and come say hi. I love the community that has built around my work and if we can find new ways to connect, it would be great. Join it here: / discord

#Celestine #AUv3 #iPadMusic #GranularSynthesis #Ambient #SoundDesign #MusicProduction #iOSMusic #AudioEffects #iosmusicproduction"

Augur v1.5 Update - more options, more musical, full Push support, self-modulation, and more

video upload by ijo audio

"Augur v1.5 is by far my biggest update I've ever released to one of my devices. Many of you wrote to me with ideas and I've incorporated almost all of them and I think Augur is truly so much better thanks to all your suggestions.

Included in this free update:
Augur can now self-modulate! This means the modulation section can now modulate the parameters of Augur itself. It feels like a very modular concept to be able to feed the modulations back into the various controls of Augur. I particularly enjoy this with the Speed control.
Longer pattern lengths (up to 32 steps).
Longer (slower) sequencer speeds plus new dotted and triplet speeds.
A new Gravity control makes the generative nature of Augur feel less random and more truly in key. (thanks to ‪@HumanSynthetics‬ for his wisdom on this)
As of Live 12.4 we can finally use the modulation mapping section on the Push without using the computer at all. This is very cool and a huge thanks to ⁨@Ableton⁩ for allowing this to finally happen! My implementation was modeled after the stock LFO device and you can now select any of the 8 mod lanes, map them, adjust them, etc. (You'll need Live 12.4 for this feature to work)"

Polycrush 16 - 8-bit synthesizer for Ableton Live

video uploads by ijo audio

"Polycrush 16 is a polyphonic synthesizer inspired by the old 8-bit sounds from retro video game systems of the 80s and 90s. It offers two oscillators as well as a third sub oscillator. Each oscillator has sixteen wave shapes to choose from. From there, you have typical ADSR control over your sound, followed by a bit crusher to make sounds even more lo-fi.

There are also a couple innovative features in the oscillator section. Each oscillator has a display that lets you visualize the waveform. Four buttons on the left of this viewer allow a user to select a portion of the cycle, adjust the selection, scrub through the waveform, as well as draw your own for limitless sound creation potential.

Another easter egg feature is the ability to drop in your own waveforms. This is accomplished by dropping your waveform of choice upon the pixelated images - the heart for oscillator one and the star for oscillator two.

Also included are eighteen presets - six plucks, six basses and six poly leads.

Free updates for life. Planned features moving forward include expanded preset selection, expanded oscillator shapes, and further sound sculpting capabilities in the form of an LFO, a filter envelope, and perhaps some soft clipping.

These retro waveforms have a lovely way of cutting through a mix and can sound positively dreamy with a bit of reverb or delay added. Polycrush. Introductory pricing of $12. Requires Ableton Live Suite as it's a Max for Live device.

Available at: https://snakeshaky.gumroad.com/l/poly..."