Updated review years later.
Originally I said that the synth wasn’t great on small screens, but after years of playing around in the iOS music app scene, I’ve come back to this synth as an absolute classic. I’ve gone deep on what’s available here, with two wavetables, with a wavetables generator tool that you can use to tweak harmonics, FM modulation, a wide arrange of filters…. Honestly, amazing. This synth should get much more attention. Whilst it is fiddly to edit on a phone screen, at least it is available on phones and plays presents developed on larger screens (when needed) perfectly. It’s honestly a brilliant balance of functionality and usability and I understand why compromises had to be made to keep it as functional as it is smaller screens. Honestly one of the best, if not the best synths in the iOS/iPadOS toolkit. Really excellent work.
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App crashing
With regular use, I’ve had it crash with AUM. Great app. When it’s not crashing.
Most complete Pro SoftSynth
Awesome and Functional...mpe popup possible on top of the auv3 As an addition?
Serum for iPad
This is one rude synth and I’m lovin it bada ba ba baah no joke this is dutty just how I like em
Amazing, but disappears in Cubasis randomly
Amazing Synth. Great for DnB. Unfortunately one major issue for Cubasis users is that it randomly disappears from time to time leaving entire parts of your track missing. This makes it impossible to work with.
Abandoned?
This used to be my go-to synth for sound design but without even a bugfix release in over a year I’ve sadly come to the conclusion that it’s abandoned. It crashes all the time inside Logic, and desperately needs a button to hide the built in keyboard.
Changing a patch spikes my m4 to 99 percent
Changing a patch spikes my m4 to 99 percent. No way to contact the developer on their website.
Crash Machine
I have made many great sounds with this app across multiple songs, and in every song this app crashes. Totally unstable and disappointing.
Crashes on every patch change
It loads but on changing a patch it just disappears
Everytime i render the track or freeze it Theres no audio
this synth is good but it keeps crashing and bugging out and when I try to freeze or render it to audio it either crash or doesn’t show the audio or it will have like a little bit of the sound and the rest is gone in a bad way. Please fix this bc I use the sample for 808 and it’s good for sound design. Please fix this
Update: it keeps crashing and it’s Annoying theres not even a buffer size on the synth please fix this please. I like using this synth for samples
Update: it keeps crashing and it’s Annoying theres not even a buffer size on the synth please fix this please. I like using this synth for samples
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Everytime i render the track or freeze it Theres no audio
this synth is good but it keeps crashing and bugging out and when I try to freeze or render it to audio it either crash or doesn’t show the audio or it will have like a little bit of the sound and the rest is gone in a bad way. Please fix this bc I use the sample for 808 and it’s good for sound design. Please fix this
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Deep Surprises
ButterSynth allows you to program from several different ideas. It is a deep, great sounding synth that can be a sounding as you like or weird and exotic.
This is why I am so fond of this synthesizer. When programming there are many approaches that can be same sounding, but typically offer timbres that are somewhat similar and yet very different sounding until you realize the base of the sound starts from similar areas in the synth well producing different concepts taken from the same beginning.
Personally, I’m not a big fan of the interface. It’s set up in a way that wastes a lot of screen space. And don’t necessarily come from the same style, which can be a little bit disconcerting and for me at least takes a little bit more time for me to figure out where I wanna go next. However, where I wanna go often ends up someplace different and interesting so in that respect as a user you end up in different places, different representations, and places you didn’t expect to find interesting but are. For that reason, I love this synth and find myself using it way more than I expect. Because of this, it does have a learning curve. I do hope that they approach the graphical user interface because I think that underneath this particular UI there is something exceptional waiting to occur. But if it never changes, there’s so much you can do with ButterSynth and I find myself drawn to its sound no matter that sometimes I spend more time than I would like trying to navigate features. The unexpected sometimes yields results I would personally never think of and that’s great..
This is why I am so fond of this synthesizer. When programming there are many approaches that can be same sounding, but typically offer timbres that are somewhat similar and yet very different sounding until you realize the base of the sound starts from similar areas in the synth well producing different concepts taken from the same beginning.
Personally, I’m not a big fan of the interface. It’s set up in a way that wastes a lot of screen space. And don’t necessarily come from the same style, which can be a little bit disconcerting and for me at least takes a little bit more time for me to figure out where I wanna go next. However, where I wanna go often ends up someplace different and interesting so in that respect as a user you end up in different places, different representations, and places you didn’t expect to find interesting but are. For that reason, I love this synth and find myself using it way more than I expect. Because of this, it does have a learning curve. I do hope that they approach the graphical user interface because I think that underneath this particular UI there is something exceptional waiting to occur. But if it never changes, there’s so much you can do with ButterSynth and I find myself drawn to its sound no matter that sometimes I spend more time than I would like trying to navigate features. The unexpected sometimes yields results I would personally never think of and that’s great..
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unusable
Keyboard doesn’t load on iPhone.
iOS18 Broke ButterSynth
ButterSynth is a very powerful monster of a synth, but unfortunately since iOS18 was released it no longer works when trying to record the audio in a mixdown or manual track record in Cubasis 3.
Months of dedication spent on creating super presets - all for nothing!
Months of dedication spent on creating super presets - all for nothing!
Beautiful as a standalone, terrible as Auv3
I love the app as standalone, but sadly when trying to connect to Logic Pro for iPad as an Auv3, it is very miss or hit. Yep in that order, mostly i get failed to load. I have gone through all settings on both ButterSynth and LogicPro. If this ever gets fixed. This app would be the best synth app out there. Other than that I can’t use it
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It just simply doesn’t work
This app just crashes as soon as a preset is selected, both in standalone and au3.
I don’t think in 15 years I’ve bought an app that is so unusable. Refund requested.
I don’t think in 15 years I’ve bought an app that is so unusable. Refund requested.
Great sounds, but some patches hanging
I love the sounds. I hadn’t used this instrument in a while, started playing with it tonight and as I scroll through the presets, I’m finding that some are already sounding without me touching any keys. If I scroll past that patch, the next presets are also sounding, have to shut off all MIDI notes to get it to stop.
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Can’t believe it is butter lol
Amazing workflow and sound. 10 stars!
Best Wavetable Synth
Hello, fantastic synth if you are after a Serum like experience. Has been a lot more stable for me than I’ve seen others report, M2 iPad Pro. I guess great power does require heavier resources. I wish the developer well and hope the rumours of an update are true, even if it is to just optimise it for more users. The synth itself is perfect.
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Haven’t explored completely but……
This is an absolute definite hall of famer in the upcoming Renaissance,
My sincere apologies for not being able to write down the details but it’s coming.
Two options
1) buy it
2) ignore option 1 and buy it now
My sincere apologies for not being able to write down the details but it’s coming.
Two options
1) buy it
2) ignore option 1 and buy it now
