Particle Chimes: Ambient Synth

Two new exciters. Morph and Sample & Hold (S&H) are now in the exciter picker on iPhone and iPad, next to Classic, Mallet, Pluck, Particles, Flow and Noise. Morph is an oscillator: WAVE sweeps its waveform and WIDTH sets the pulse width. S&H is a noise source that steps from one random level to the next: RATE sets how fast it steps and SMOOTH glides between the steps. Both keep exciting the resonator for as long as a note is held. New in 1.1: PARTICLES gets two new playback modes. Alongside GRAINS, the particle engine can now be set to LOOP or STRETCH. LOOP repeats a slice of the buffer and can be sync'd to musical rhythms. STRETCH is a pitched loop player allowing for pitch and time to be adjusted independently. All three heads play at once, each at its own pitch, locked to one speed by default; turn LOCK off to let them drift apart. Eight new black and white looks have been added to the visual picker. New presets highlighting the range of sounds possible with the core resonator and the new particles modes. The library has grown to 39 presets, with four new groups: Slow Time, Choirs & Ensembles, Loops & Echoes and Grain Gardens. A much improved one-page Studio for iPad. The refined Studio layout puts the whole patching surface on one screen, with its own transport and FX dock. Resonator motor. Capture the classic sound of a vibraphone by turning the motor on, adding a slow vibrato to all resonator sounds. Off by default; turn it on with MOTOR. AUTO can follow your host. Switch it on and AUTO starts and stops with the transport. Also in 1.1: • The delay now crossfades when you change the time, instead of abrupt chirps. • Mirror External Display now switches a connected display right away. No reconnecting needed.