While it’s not “Free as in ‘Free Beer’”, it’s quite inexpensive and it helps fund the AudioKit project as a whole. The AudioKit team has also released Digital D1, a great-sounding synth reminiscent of the Roland D50 and other digital synths of the 1980s and 1990s.
Nothing can truly be ubiquitous but AudioKit Synth One comes close to iOS ubiquity. It’s also featured in Apple Retail Stores in the United States. Speaking of appropriate contexts, AKS1 is one of very few musicking apps to push accessibility features for people visual impairments. In this sense, the app is not only “Free as in ‘Free Beer’” but pretty close to “Free as in ‘Free Speech’” without being “Free as in ‘Free Puppy’”: you can easily use it as though it were merely freeware without needing to maintain it, yet you can also appropriate it fully, making it your own and making it appropriate to your contexts.
#Free syntorial synthesizer install#
Unlike many Free/Libre Open Source Software projects, AKS1 is maintained in such a way that it’s remarkably easy to install and use (though the synth is really deep). At the same time, it also supports traditional scales and tuning systems which are dominant in the World’s many musics. One of my favourite features is an elaborate set of tuning systems, which focuses on the experimental side of tuning geekness (“Wilson Hexanies” and other goodies from the Wilsonic app). AKS1 affords producing sounds which fit really well in contemporary musicking. But AKS1 isn’t limited to emulating old synths à la Moog. That makes it similar to Virtual Analog synthesizers. AKS1 primarily uses a subtractive synthesis model (create a rich sound like a sawtooth, sculpt it with filters). Much of the inspiration for that synth comes from the East Coast vintage analog synths from the 1960s and 1970s. Now available on both iPhone and iPad, AudioKit Synth One (AKS1) is an Open Source project ( MIT License) from the team behind the no-less Open Source AudioKit platform/framework for the Swift programming language.Īs a softsynth, AKS1 has all sorts of neat features allowing musickers to play a huge range of sounds which would fit in a large number of musical contexts. I don’t always do listicles but when I do, it’s not really about the list or the -icles AudioKit Synth One
#Free syntorial synthesizer free#
So, let’s start with “the top five best free apps to get started with music production on iOS”: But a friend just asked me for recommendations which prompted for this blogpost. I’m not really into listicles and this isn’t meant to be a list of “the top five best free apps to get started with music production on iOS”.
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