# R862 Skywave — Broadcast Transmitter Console

> Broadcast Transmitter Console (iPhone/iPad app by Pulsar Modular.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/r862-skywave/id6823564649 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Pulsar Modular](https://appshunter.io/developer/6793457903)
- Category: Music
- Price: $19.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 56 MB
- Released: 2026-10-22
- Data updated: 2026-10-29

## What is R862 Skywave?

R862 Skywave is a high-power broadcasting station in a plug-in, now on your iPhone and iPad. Your audio is the program.

R862 encodes the program, drives it through the station's modulator, water-cooled RCA 862 power tubes, the giants of the high-power stations of the 1930s, and puts it on the air. R862 is also the receiver at the other end: it decodes the signal, so you hear what went out. The receiver is perfect: no static, no fading, no tuning error and no narrow radio bandwidth. The character comes from the transmitter.

Now you run it. Drive it hard, starve its tubes to save on the power bill, mismatch the pair, let the supply sag. This is that station... and you own it!

Use it as an AUv3 plug-in in your favorite host (Logic Pro, GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis and more) or as a standalone app processing live sound from your microphone.

KEY FEATURES:
- The tube pair solved as a circuit: a tube law anchored to the 862's published ratings, the load it drives, grid current and plate bottoming
- DRIVE and DEPTH: the sound gets denser and dirtier, never louder
- BIAS from a freshly calibrated transmitter to a cold, worn one, with crossover grain on the decays
- TUBE MISMATCH: an unequal pair brings back the even harmonics as warmth and body
- SAG: a soft supply that dips on loud passages and recovers, so the level breathes with the program
- Phase ROTATOR: evens out the peaks before they reach the transmitter, so they hit its limits less often and softer when they do
- MIX from AIR to LINE, used like parallel compression
- MATCH sets OUT TRIM so the output plays as loud as your input
- Five meters across the top: MOD. m, MOD. %, a two-needle VU with CAL, PLATE kV and MISMATCH, plus the limit lamps
- A round scope with three views, X-Y DOTS, X-Y LINE and TRANSFER, plus a correlation meter
- Mono and stereo
- 32 factory presets in seven folders (Bass, Brass, Bus, Drums, Guitar, Keys and Vocals), with descriptions, tags, search and favorites
- A/B slots with copy
- Made for touch: the help shows while you touch a control, a long-press opens the preset menus, and a Link In & Out Trim switch
- Preset import and export through Files
- MIDI Learn for every knob, the POWER lamp and ROTATOR
- Full parameter automation in AUv3 hosts

All audio is processed on your device. No account, no data collection, no internet connection required.

R862 is not affiliated with, and is not endorsed by, RCA or its successors. RCA and the 862 are named only to identify the tube and its published data.

## Is R862 Skywave safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess R862 Skywave.

## Is R862 Skywave legit?

R862 Skywave appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for R862 Skywave is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.2.1 — 2026-10-27

Phase ROTATOR: evens out the peaks before they reach the transmitter, so they hit its limits less often and softer when they do. Bass attacks round off and voices sound fuller.
Preset browser improvement.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-23

• Cleaner peaks under heavy Drive. Like the processor every station ran ahead of its transmitter, a peak limiter now holds the negative peaks at -99%, so the transmitter never cuts out and hard-driven program no longer breaks up like digital clipping. The -100 lamp lights while the limiter holds a peak.
• Four new factory presets by Luca Pilla: Mix Bus Enhancer, Valve Stereo Enhancer, Kick Bass Enhancer and Vox Enhancer.
• On a mono track the faceplate shows no L-R lamp and no correlation meter: a mono transmitter has no stereo subchannel.
• Host automation follows the same smooth ramp at every buffer size.
• Presets: a factory preset you delete stays deleted. Touch and hold a preset or a folder and choose Move to folder... to move it. Scrolling the preset browser no longer moves folders by accident.
• The preset browser fits an iPhone held upright.
• In the AUv3 plug-in, Manuals copies the guide's link for your browser.
• More robust in a busy chain: an invalid sample from another plug-in no longer silences R862.
• Your own presets and favorites are kept.

Requires iOS 15 or later.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-10-22

No release notes.

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