ShockWave User Reviews

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Heavy tones

My go to for harsh sounds. Play this through a 1000 watt pa and experience total brutality.

BADSIGNALAUv3INAUMNotWork

Developer Kai Aras, when you finish loading the Shockwave app in AUM, as auv3, it immediately shows me “BAD SIGNAL”, and it no longer generates sound, you can’t hear anything, even if I select or change any of its presets. I press where it says “BAD SIGNAL” and I get the following as a warning: “Bad Signal, some node in this channel is producing invalid signal values ​​(NaN or inf) Try to see which plugin is causing the issue and let their developer know about it.”. I have read all the reviews of this app, and they all refer to problems with the volume and other things, which you in 4 years have not deigned to repair or solve with some update. That is what we call irresponsibility.
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Bad signal

Getting intermittent bad signal prompt in AUM then fails to work and needs reloading

Glitchty

Sounds awful, very distorted with glitchy UI. Needs an update, this one.

Lovely and infuriating

Gorgeous sounds but glitchy with no proper manual

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He can make great apps but he doesn’t maintain or fix the Bugs doesn’t look safe to purchase from this developer anymore

As close to a semimodular there is!

Thank you Jacob Haq for turning me on to this awesome synth!

Simply a great synth

Phase Distortion seems to make such weighty sounds. Great app.

Brilliant synth but w/o manual…forget it!

Kai Aras is brilliant, and all his apps are among the best. If all you want to do with this app is use the presets, great. You’ll hear some incredible sounds.

But if you’d actually like to design your own presets, or even creatively modify existing presets, good luck.

Without a manual that details the function and examples of every parameter and section of this very deep synth, it’s extremely difficult to understand and use.

I cannot understand why the dev, after spending so much time to create such a wonderful product, would throw this beast into the wild and expect the majority of people buying it to somehow understand how to use it.

Based on my experience with this and other similar difficult apps, I will never again purchase a product from a developer that doesn’t have a well written manual.

To Kai and other developers: please take the time to produce a well written manual that not only describes the function of every parameter and section in your software but also gives examples of how to use it.

Help us to understand and enjoy your amazing apps. Otherwise, what’s the point?
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Dark send

What is dark and atmospheric synthesizer this is I really love the sounds of able to make with it and I’m really getting into it it’s very deep

Great sounds!

This is a little treasure! So much inspiration has gone into the presets that come with this. It’s like there is an extra dimension!

Not working in GarageBand

Sorry, I couldn’t find any other way of contacting you. Right now there is no sound coming out of the auv3 in GarageBand. Cubasis is fine. Let me know if there’s anything I need to do on my end. I have an iPhone 12 max, latest iOS 15.1.1

Cheers

Nik

Cool.

Cool. It is really really cool
Thanks, my life is happier now.
Wow...

Complete disaster

Poor quality software. Not easy to use. Seems to be full of bugs. Just skip this one.

Only seems to work in standalone mode.

Loads of presets but it doesn’t like other apps. Supposedly AUV3 but although it loads into AUM and the presets appear, none of them work. I’ve tried a couple of midi controllers and nothing! I uninstalled and reinstalled and still no sound in AUM, so if you are happy with standalone only great, if not don’t buy.
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Sounds Great & is Buggy

Purchased this after Haq recommended it.

And was subsequently disappointed as it would bug out.

Makes amazing sounds, yet I consider it a totally unreliable app for performance.

Please hunt your bugs and I will immediately and gladly give this app the full five stars it deserves bc of its amazingness.

And Haq, I strongly suggest that you really veto the apps you recommend, you lost some cred with suggesting a buggy crash app.
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More then half of the sounds doesn’t play

1 star because the sounds don’t play, waste of 20$. And you will not receive a refund after you purchase this app. I can say the few sounds that do work does sound super amazing though.

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT

The sound sculpting abilities of this app are literally endless This is my favourite be it software or hardware synthesiser of all time. Buy it now you won’t be disappointed.

Doug B, STUDIO 19.

Lushness

This thing can sound evil, so evil. But it also does harmonically rich, beautiful sounds as well. I’ve only tried the standalone, hopefully it won’t act up when using it as AUv3.

Bug

My performance in the sequence remains but the synth loads blank when returning to work on it after closing. I had 2 saved copies of the session and in both instances the load up failed. I don’t know if it’s beatmaker 3 ruining my work or this app.