Rithmatic: FM Synth

Rithmatic 1.2 brings dark mode, five tunings, keys you can resize, and help that's easy to find. And if you missed 1.1: Rithmatic plays inside your DAW as an AUv3 instrument. NEW IN 1.2 - Dark mode: Rithmatic follows your device's appearance, or choose Light or Dark in Settings > Look. The black screen at the top stays the same in both - Tuning, in Settings > Sound: equal temperament, just intonation, or Wendy Carlos's Alpha, Beta and Gamma scales, which never return to the octave. With thanks to her in About - Drag the handle on top of the on-screen keys to make them taller or shorter; double-tap it to reset - The bar above the pads slides back the moment you scroll up, from anywhere in the grid - Settings > Help & support has Keys and shortcuts (play from a hardware keyboard: A to K for the white keys, W E T Y U for the black, by position, so German and French keyboards play the same notes) and Synth terms, every plain-words explanation in one place - Blend results play on the built-in synth, no hardware needed - The Patch Builder keeps your edits when you switch tabs and come back - Recordings catch pad and catalog auditions, and leave 1 dB of headroom for a DAW or an editor - Patch info from a pad shows its tags, similar sounds, Blend and Share - Volume and the patch sets you switch off are remembered - Banks you export or send to a synth keep the names you give patches - Side panels fill the screen edge to edge on iPhone and share one header; they open below the header, so Record and Stop stay in reach - Easier to read and use: stronger contrast in dark mode, clearer icons, switches beside their labels on iPhone, and VoiceOver names every control - Record, mapped to a MIDI controller, now starts and stops recording STILL NEW FROM 1.1 - AUv3 instrument: put Rithmatic on a track in GarageBand on iPad, or in an Audio Unit host on the Mac. Its window is the app's own Patches screen and Patch Builder, with your library; your bank is its presets, and Brightness, Attack, Decay, Release and Feedback can be automated - Essentials: the DX7 sounds you know from records, each with why it is famous and the songs to hear it in - Patch Builder: each operator's envelope and tuning, the LFO and the pitch envelope, and FEEL for thickness, touch and brightness in plain words - Blend: pick two patches and get eight new ones, each with its own play button - Arpeggiator: up, down, up and down, random or as played, over one to three octaves, with Latch - Every MIDI keyboard plays: pitch bend, mod wheel, breath, sustain and aftertouch - Mono, legato, glide and glissando, and a truer DX7 sound: exact timing, feedback in every algorithm, the hardware's detune - The waveform follows what you play, with a Scope look; Patch of the day, in the app and as a widget - Open .syx banks from Files, Mail or AirDrop, export your bank as .syx, and Share Sound as a short clip