Top shelf sounds
And well designed app for incredible usability
Full Screen control
No resizing or full screen control in this app on iOS is subpar. The full keyboard and mod slider cannot be accessed without using it with an external keyboard controller. The ability to resize the window to fit the screen ought to be a fundamental function.
This Synth is
Sonically 999 years ahead of other ones!
Thank you Fabfilter.
Thank you Fabfilter.
Fiddly but worth it
Once I got used to the fiddly interface…and then started playing with the XLFOs wow….best all rounder synth on iOS! Both in terms of sound and features.
How It Should Be Done
A very solid professional workhorse for me. I never needed the manual, modulation routing & midi learning are simple visual and reliable..oh and did I mention that it sounds very classy no matter which direction you choose
Still Impressed
I haven’t been inspired by a synth in a long time. Thank you, Fab Filter, for showing me it’s still possible for me to love an app.
Amazing synth but missing functionality
Great sound and musicality but on iPad you cannot change filter panning which is like half the appeal unless you use modulation, merge there is a way but the iOS specific page on their site is pretty skimpy
Awesome but can’t delete oscillators on iPad
Great but the little “x” is too small to tap on…
Response from developer
Will be fixed in the new 3.06 update!
Envelope Follower mod currently unavailable on iOS
This synth has one *incredibly unique* feature that I don’t see many people talking about - the ability to sidechain audio to it and then use that audio to modulate anything. Are you kidding me? That is REALLY REALLY cool and opens up a lot of possibilities (and ultimately the reason I bought this). Unfortunately at the moment this feature doesn’t seem to be available on iOS (I’ve tried in both AUM and Cubasis and there doesn’t seem to be a way to route audio to it). Other than that, it’s fantastic synth. Crossing my fingers that this will be added soon!
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It’s Beautiful but…
Whenever I want to impress someone with a mega-cool looking app I grab this synth. It is an aesthetic tech dream on steroids. But when it come to sound design, this thing gives me fits. I can’t imagine anything less intuitive
Response from developer
Thanks for your feedback! We’ll definitely look at the points you mentioned.
Absolutely top-notch
I have just purchased this as it was on sale and have had a little play, but enough for me to know that this is going to be one of my favourite IOS synths. The tweak-ability is astounding. In only a few short minutes I have managed to completely change one of their admirable presets into something altogether different. I’ve hooked it up via AUM to Zoa and the results are just amazing.
A must.
A must.
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I’m Impressed
Takes a lot to impress me, but this synth is a LOT… and I have 100’s. This is going to get well used along with all your other apps I bought this week. Winner/Winner 🥇🏆
A fantastic sounding synth
This is one of the best sounding synths I’ve used. Rich, alive sounding oscillators and really nice filters.
Unfortunately the user interface is not at all touch friendly with using fingers so I think I will have to buy a pencil to make the most of it.
Unfortunately the user interface is not at all touch friendly with using fingers so I think I will have to buy a pencil to make the most of it.
Pristine quality sound
Top quality sound as you’d expect from FF.
Some negatives :
1) the interface is not great to work with, very fiddly
2) not that deep modulation wise, can’t even use the oscillators as modulators or for xmod.
Still worth it if you can get it discounted or in the bundle deal.
Some negatives :
1) the interface is not great to work with, very fiddly
2) not that deep modulation wise, can’t even use the oscillators as modulators or for xmod.
Still worth it if you can get it discounted or in the bundle deal.
Possibly the best Synth on IOS.
FabFilter is just top of the line in every way. This synth makes you want to play it. It’s professional but still just so much fun. The interface is super clean and very easy to use, and the sounds and ways you can shape them are PHENOMENAL. BUY IT
Absolutely perfect
As long as it's a FabFilter plugin, you can definitely go ahead without thinking twice, including Twin 3.
Runs efficiently... even on a 2015 iPad Mini 2
We have about 6 iOS devices in our studio - and the Mini 2 is the oldest in the bunch, with 2GB of RAM (Less than a base spec iPhone 6s we have). Apple products become more worthwhile to owners as they age, because Apple actually has done pretty well with the depreciative value of their devices over the years. Especially with the integrative modular workflow these devices have - there’s really no reason not to have a ton of them to play around with in-studio.
So with that introduction, Twin 3 works amazingly well on our older devices - and that’s the kind of backward-compatability investment Fabfilter has. Many old iOS apps aren’t aging that well or get stuck in “desperate need of update\eternal Inter-App Audio” mode, a la NAVE, which is an incredibly sophisticated wavetable synth that still operates quite well with no updates for a long time. Some of its brethren are not so lucky.
For sure, there is framerate fluctuation on older devices, but the functionality is all there, and that makes Twin 3 a great multi-instance app - truly lightweight and timeless design. Fabfilter is aware of their customers and the types of setups they have. would recommend this synth to anyone.
So with that introduction, Twin 3 works amazingly well on our older devices - and that’s the kind of backward-compatability investment Fabfilter has. Many old iOS apps aren’t aging that well or get stuck in “desperate need of update\eternal Inter-App Audio” mode, a la NAVE, which is an incredibly sophisticated wavetable synth that still operates quite well with no updates for a long time. Some of its brethren are not so lucky.
For sure, there is framerate fluctuation on older devices, but the functionality is all there, and that makes Twin 3 a great multi-instance app - truly lightweight and timeless design. Fabfilter is aware of their customers and the types of setups they have. would recommend this synth to anyone.
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Pretty impressive sounds, it’s quality.
I really liked this from about the second I hit some keys. Having got rid of my admittedly not terribly expensive small synths (Roland’s baby synth I think), in favour of going all-in on iPad Pro M1 soft synths, I have no experience of ‘other versions’ or platforms/OS of this product. My criticism is only the same as any top synth on iOS/iPadOS now, the level of automation possible.
It’s lovely to be able to slide around some on-screen XY pads, but it would REALLY be great if GarageBand would record those actions as well as the obvious pitch bending and mod wheel movements. I don’t know if Cubasis would make a more comprehensive job of faithfully recreating every form of adjustment along the way, or if it’s a FabFilter omission? Anyway, it’s lovely.
The sounds seem just that bit higher quality, possibly this is FF’s other expertise or chunks of their EQ product etc being embedded, I don’t know. It’s up there with the iOS biggies anyway. I know some might see this as a lazy port-over, but I am not qualified to judge that, I am just grateful to have it. Price is always going to be a hurdle as the quality improves of iOS/iPadOS music apps and AUv3 plugins, but down through the ages (!) the good stuff has been expensive in the music world. It’s okay as long as the hits don’t come too thick and fast.
Twin 3 is one of those synths I can’t see anyone regretting they obtained it. The signal chain used on my iPad Pro M1 was all in GarageBand, with the latest iPadOS 16.3.1 and latest GB itself, just the GB standard compressor first, then I did go upmarket a bit with a splash of some echo and an amp sim from Overloud’s THU. T3 sounded pretty great through just that, and it’ll take a while for the controls, graphical and otherwise, to sink in, to make sounds a bit less ‘stock’.
Oh yes, the one other bane of synth life on iPad Pro music-making keeps rearing it’s head, the fantastic swipe-bar at the bottom, cuts beautifully into FabFilter’s lowest set of features placed on-screen. I was very happy with a Home Button, tbh, but can just about make the features down there turn on and off, without flinging the whole GB song into limbo for a minute as iPad thinks the user wants to give up mid-tweak. If Apple would just let us turn it off somehow for certain specialist applications, and substitute something else, that would do as a workaround. No complaints apart from those two really: more comprehensive automation like the X-Y pads would be fantastic; blessed swipe bar clashing with FF’s bottom handful of on-screen features. The presets and the quality though, blow negatives out of the water, for me.
It’s lovely to be able to slide around some on-screen XY pads, but it would REALLY be great if GarageBand would record those actions as well as the obvious pitch bending and mod wheel movements. I don’t know if Cubasis would make a more comprehensive job of faithfully recreating every form of adjustment along the way, or if it’s a FabFilter omission? Anyway, it’s lovely.
The sounds seem just that bit higher quality, possibly this is FF’s other expertise or chunks of their EQ product etc being embedded, I don’t know. It’s up there with the iOS biggies anyway. I know some might see this as a lazy port-over, but I am not qualified to judge that, I am just grateful to have it. Price is always going to be a hurdle as the quality improves of iOS/iPadOS music apps and AUv3 plugins, but down through the ages (!) the good stuff has been expensive in the music world. It’s okay as long as the hits don’t come too thick and fast.
Twin 3 is one of those synths I can’t see anyone regretting they obtained it. The signal chain used on my iPad Pro M1 was all in GarageBand, with the latest iPadOS 16.3.1 and latest GB itself, just the GB standard compressor first, then I did go upmarket a bit with a splash of some echo and an amp sim from Overloud’s THU. T3 sounded pretty great through just that, and it’ll take a while for the controls, graphical and otherwise, to sink in, to make sounds a bit less ‘stock’.
Oh yes, the one other bane of synth life on iPad Pro music-making keeps rearing it’s head, the fantastic swipe-bar at the bottom, cuts beautifully into FabFilter’s lowest set of features placed on-screen. I was very happy with a Home Button, tbh, but can just about make the features down there turn on and off, without flinging the whole GB song into limbo for a minute as iPad thinks the user wants to give up mid-tweak. If Apple would just let us turn it off somehow for certain specialist applications, and substitute something else, that would do as a workaround. No complaints apart from those two really: more comprehensive automation like the X-Y pads would be fantastic; blessed swipe bar clashing with FF’s bottom handful of on-screen features. The presets and the quality though, blow negatives out of the water, for me.
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Beautiful and strange, with one omission
This is a this is an amazing synthesizer. The depth of modulation and unlimited potential for sound design make this a must have. With that said, I find that there is one glaring omission - headphone output. In spite of the fact that the app is installed on my lesson 30 day old, iPad Air and connected to my AirPods Max the app does not route audio to the headphones. Yes, audio streams from the iPad to the AirPods on other applications. Please fix this so I can give you the fit star.
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Not what I thought
Very basic arp, no sequencer. Modulation doesn’t work so smoothly either. I touch an LFO to connect to something and it takes multiple tries before I get the line to connect. Sometimes I just give up, yes it’s that bad. I’ve never had this issue with other fabfilter products. I was hoping this would be like Pigments 4 on iPad, but it’s far from it.
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