Rating system broken?
This app is delicious and elegant. It's got a flange for good chorus effects, for psychedelic swirling, faux vocoding or metallic resonation. Also some good fuzz to amp it up a bit. Money very well spent.
Bof...
Un peu mieux que Caramel, mais quand même...
Klar und gut
Klare Bedienungoberfläche, schlankes Design und gut klingend.
Vom Einsatzgebiet sicherlich etwas spezieller aber nicht zuletzt seit Audiobus 2 und der Möglichkeit Effektketten zu erstellen eine tolle Sache.
Vom Einsatzgebiet sicherlich etwas spezieller aber nicht zuletzt seit Audiobus 2 und der Möglichkeit Effektketten zu erstellen eine tolle Sache.
Flangetastic
As with all the Holderness apps, Swoopster gets regular updates and was already solid. I've gotten my money's worth and then some with EchoPad, StereoDesigner, Caramel, Crystalline, and this app.
...'nuff said.
...'nuff said.
Whoa dude
Trippy
Not my cup of tea
I find this developer's Crystalline, Echo Pad and Stereo Designer apps quite interesting and plan on using them but this one, along with Caramel I don't see myself ever using. Others, however, may like these dirty, distorted, grungy effects. I bought the bundle that had them all but have since deleted Swoopster and Caramel.
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Lovely
Really nice set of effects here. Powerful And easy to use perfect with audiobus ( nice to see someone's on the ball with iOS 8 updates )
Excellent, musical app, fuzz effect
IAA and Audiobus compatible effect with intuitive controls, recommend all their music apps.
Swoopster is great! (actually, all HM's apps are)
I hate Cubasis' onboard FX—and Holderness Media's FX bundle does a lot of heavy lifting for me.
I *have* Turnado & Effectrix, among many others. I *use* Holderness' apps. I don't know how much higher praise I could give than that :)
I *have* Turnado & Effectrix, among many others. I *use* Holderness' apps. I don't know how much higher praise I could give than that :)
Great app, fantastic UI
This app is another brilliant app from Holderness Media (makers of Echo Pad). Small size, but huge on sound.
The presets alone are great, but playing with the X/Y pads or going into "Tweak" mode gives you so much more.
Easy recommend on this app.
The presets alone are great, but playing with the X/Y pads or going into "Tweak" mode gives you so much more.
Easy recommend on this app.
Awesome!
Top notch audio effects from a top notch developer. An absolute necessity for all iOS musicians.
reliable effector for weird exp
alike his other Apps, this one is very easily set up and with nice experimental abilities, great developer!
VERY close to a 5-star app - just a few issues...
I'm going to give Swoopster by Holderness Media a 4-star rating even though it pains me to do so. I think this is an excellent developer and I would encourage everyone right now to check out Echo Pad, Stereo Designer, and (the new) Crystalline Shimmer, all of which look terrific (and I will very likely own). I didn't buy Swoopster because I thought it was the "best" of those, I bought it because it seemed the most different from a few of the FX apps I already have (including from the equally excellent AUFX series). I bought it because I thought I could use it with guitar (Apogee JAM interface) as well as synths and drums.
First, the good stuff: I have a iPad2 which is starting to show its age with some of the newer music apps. It's often the case that loading AudioBus with a guitar app, DAW, AND and effects app in the middle slot will bring the device to its knees and cause all types of stuttering glitches. I saw NONE of that with Swoopster. It's a small file size, all the buttons and controls were very responsive, and it seemed to be very light on the CPU, particularly for what it does.
The flanger effects and control pad interfaces are great. You get both an X-Y pad and a "Tweak" screen with more traditional slider bar settings. These can be staggered by left/right channel, or linked to work in unison. There's a "mix" slider that ranges from 0 (bypass) to 100 (full effects added). On the performance screen, there's also a press-activated "Bypass" and "Mute" button, which are almost like effects in themselves. The Mute button cuts out sound altogether, so you can do glitch/stutter effects (and is even pretty easy to work while holding a guitar and sustaining a note).
My complaints/concerns about the app are really limited to two things: latency and volume control as it pertains to fuzz use. The app itself does not seem to add significant latency, and I ran at 256 frames through AudioBus, which is the default setting. Like I said, there was no stuttering and it doesn't use a lot of CPU. But for whatever reason, adding more flanger/delay effect to the mix also seemed to add latency to the signal while playing on guitar. If I bypassed the effects (or turned them down), the latency was gone, so it did not seem to be a CPU issue. But there was definitiely a noticeable lag added by the effects being turned up in excess of the perceivable threshold of 15ms, or whatever. (It's possible my older device contributed, but it's worth mentioning).
Also, I really think the app needs some type of output control along with a display to show if you are at risk of clipping. The AUFX effects have this and it is helpful. It's arguably more necessary in Swoopster because adding certain effects (ESPECIALLY) fuzz dramatically increases the signal volume. There actually is a pretty useable (if a little bright) fuzz effect up to "20" on that slider, but once you get above that, there is no way to turn the master volume down as the fuzz goes up. This made an otherwise cool effect difficult to use and less practical to record.
If these minor gripes could be even minorly improved, I'd change my review to 5-stars in a heartbeat. Still an excellent overall product, and it has me interested in their other effects!
First, the good stuff: I have a iPad2 which is starting to show its age with some of the newer music apps. It's often the case that loading AudioBus with a guitar app, DAW, AND and effects app in the middle slot will bring the device to its knees and cause all types of stuttering glitches. I saw NONE of that with Swoopster. It's a small file size, all the buttons and controls were very responsive, and it seemed to be very light on the CPU, particularly for what it does.
The flanger effects and control pad interfaces are great. You get both an X-Y pad and a "Tweak" screen with more traditional slider bar settings. These can be staggered by left/right channel, or linked to work in unison. There's a "mix" slider that ranges from 0 (bypass) to 100 (full effects added). On the performance screen, there's also a press-activated "Bypass" and "Mute" button, which are almost like effects in themselves. The Mute button cuts out sound altogether, so you can do glitch/stutter effects (and is even pretty easy to work while holding a guitar and sustaining a note).
My complaints/concerns about the app are really limited to two things: latency and volume control as it pertains to fuzz use. The app itself does not seem to add significant latency, and I ran at 256 frames through AudioBus, which is the default setting. Like I said, there was no stuttering and it doesn't use a lot of CPU. But for whatever reason, adding more flanger/delay effect to the mix also seemed to add latency to the signal while playing on guitar. If I bypassed the effects (or turned them down), the latency was gone, so it did not seem to be a CPU issue. But there was definitiely a noticeable lag added by the effects being turned up in excess of the perceivable threshold of 15ms, or whatever. (It's possible my older device contributed, but it's worth mentioning).
Also, I really think the app needs some type of output control along with a display to show if you are at risk of clipping. The AUFX effects have this and it is helpful. It's arguably more necessary in Swoopster because adding certain effects (ESPECIALLY) fuzz dramatically increases the signal volume. There actually is a pretty useable (if a little bright) fuzz effect up to "20" on that slider, but once you get above that, there is no way to turn the master volume down as the fuzz goes up. This made an otherwise cool effect difficult to use and less practical to record.
If these minor gripes could be even minorly improved, I'd change my review to 5-stars in a heartbeat. Still an excellent overall product, and it has me interested in their other effects!
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Cool old-school (& new school) FX
This app is a guitar FX pedal for the rest of us. Another great app from a developer who just keeps hitting 'em out of the park. Get the whole set. Be the first one on your block. Share the music with your friends.
Grab it up!
This and all of Holderness Media's apps are excellent. They sound great, are easy to use, play well with other apps, are highly configurable, and are designed from the ground up for touch devices. At the low prices they're offered for, why would you not have these in your toolkit?
It is OK.
Don't understand why so many people gave 5 stars. 5 stars means perfect. This is only an OK effect. Sound quality is OK, versatility is OK. Worth the money of course, especially when you buy it on sale. But that is it. I seldom use it after I bought it. Which leads to another topic. There is not so many quality effects in App Store now. Guitar effects we have Jamup and Bias, crazy effects we have Turnado, Wow, but for general effects like chorus, delay, or fuzz etc. I didn't find any quality ones.
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Looking for Awesome FX? You'll love this App!
First thing I'd like to say is that this guy makes really awesome apps! I have all three of his FX apps: Swoopster, Stereo Designer, and Echo Pad. They all provide unique sounds that make my music sound awesome.
This particular app Swoopster has a range of awesome FX. My favorite thing to do is use Swoopster as an FX on my Bass guitar. It give my bass a deep synth sound that's perfect for Drum & Bass and Jungle.
The uses of this app (and all his other FX apps) is limitless. You won't be disappointed.
This particular app Swoopster has a range of awesome FX. My favorite thing to do is use Swoopster as an FX on my Bass guitar. It give my bass a deep synth sound that's perfect for Drum & Bass and Jungle.
The uses of this app (and all his other FX apps) is limitless. You won't be disappointed.
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SWOOP, there it is
Sometimes I just send a loop into this app and just play for twenty minutes, wondering where the time has gone.
Flange a rama man!
Flange a rama man!
Superschöner Effekt
Die Handhabung ist einfach und übersichtlich.
Keine bugs.
Der Entwickler überzeugt durch Kompetenz, regelmäßigen Updates und ansprechbarkeit.
Keine bugs.
Der Entwickler überzeugt durch Kompetenz, regelmäßigen Updates und ansprechbarkeit.
Sweetster!
Swoop there it is! You need this. Great effects in a not enough effects world.