# Vascular - Tactile Synth — Generative modular by touch

> Generative modular by touch (iPhone/iPad app by Absolute Management SIA.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vascular-tactile-synth/id6808173190 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Absolute Management SIA](https://appshunter.io/developer/6808173192)
- Category: Music
- Price: $3.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 86 MB
- Released: 2026-09-24
- Data updated: 2026-10-01
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vascular-tactile-synth/id6808173190/reviews.md

## What is Vascular?

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Vascular is a canvas-based electroacoustic instrument. Create sound generators and processors by touching the canvas, then connect them to build the signal path. Moving a node changes its stereo position, while each node provides its own synthesis, processing, modulation and rhythmic controls.

FEATURES

- Dozens of synthesis families, including subtractive, FM, additive, granular, spectral, physical modelling, wave-terrain, pulsar and stochastic synthesis.
- A complete DX7 implementation
- **Holos**, a special node that combines elements and parameters from other nodes to create a new semi-modular synthesizer instantly.
- A sample player for loading your own loops, with time-stretching, forward and reverse playback, stuttering, splicing and tape-style manipulation derived from classic electroacoustic techniques.
- Sampled acoustic instruments that generate melodic loops in the session’s tonal key.
- Drum synthesis, a 303, a 16-oscillator supersaw and live granular processing.
- Microphone input for processing external sound.
- More than 50 processors, including filters, distortion, delays, combs, phasing, diffusion, reverb, spectral freezing, convolution, pitch tracking, harmony, vocoding and spectral delays.
- Angiogenesis, which moves nodes, rewires connections, adds processors and changes their parameters automatically. It never removes voices created by the user or modifies microphone nodes.
- Adjustable mutation rate and automatic adaptation to the processing capacity of the device.
- A shared session clock with an independent clock division for each rhythmic source.
- Twenty-six scales from four musical traditions.
- Guided paths for restricting generators and processors to a selected musical territory.
- A multilayer gesture looper.
- Thirty-two pattern slots with adjustable morphing between complete instrument states.
- Sessions that store the network, settings and tonal key together.
- Forty-eight levels of undo and redo.
- Recording, playback, renaming and sharing of takes.
- A transport that stops active sound sources while allowing effect tails to decay naturally.

AUV3

Vascular also runs as an AUv3 instrument in AUM, Loopy Pro, Logic and other compatible hosts.

The interface runs full-screen in landscape orientation and is operated directly with your fingers. The main buttons remain along the top of the display, away from the hand interacting with the canvas.

## Chart rankings

- #57 in Top Paid · Music (US App Store)


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.9.6 — 2026-10-01

NEW
- Rebalance: a new button between the mixer and the patterns button. A tap spreads the audible outputs evenly across the stereo field and, while playing, moves the sources up or down to bring the chains to a similar level. The patterns button now sits beside it.
- Metaseq editor: a second tab in the metaseq's sheet shows its melody in a piano roll. The metaseq is in the palette, in the first row, beside holos. Tap to add or remove notes, drag to move them, drag a note's end to change its length. A playhead shows the current position and notes light up as they play.
- Angiogenesis pause: hold the angiogenesis button while it runs to pause it and store the result as a pattern. Tap to continue.

CHANGES
- While angiogenesis runs, the randomizer's transform and expand work without ending it; create is unavailable. Stopping angiogenesis still returns the canvas to where it began.
- The memory generator (palette: generators > granular) can no longer be the first sound on the canvas, as it only plays back what other voices make. It now has a paler orange.
- The global filter in global steering now includes the 303.

FIXES
- AUv3: Vascular now follows the host's beat position, so it stays in time with other plugins, including after the host's transport is stopped and restarted.
- Acoustic instruments and holos phrases now play in time with the rest of the grid.
- AUv3: reopening a host session now restores Vascular with sound. Previously the saved nodes came back silent.

### 1.9.5 — 2026-09-30

NEW: METASEQ
- A node that makes no sound and plays melodies on the generators and acoustic instruments it is connected to. In the palette, beside holos.
- Hold it and tap a voice to connect. One metaseq can play several voices.
- Eight pitch methods and seven rhythm methods, with density, complexity, range, leap, form, evolve, swing, accent, legato, octave, bars and speed. Always in the session's key and tempo.
- Tap it, or use randomize in its sheet, for a new melody with new settings.

TEMPO AND RECORDING
- Tempo is now in the top bar, beside play. Tap the number to type a whole value from 10 to 300 bpm, or use tap tempo. The default is 110 bpm.
- Record counts in four beats with a click that is not recorded. If playback is stopped, it starts with the recording, and stopping playback ends the recording.

CHANGES
- Randomizer and angiogenesis have separate buttons. The randomizer opens on the transform tab, previously named randomize.
- The guided tour is now an interactive tutorial: each step waits until you have done it.
- The help button in a node's sheet explains its top-bar controls.
- The patterns sheet has its own pattern morph slider.
- Distorter is rebuilt as a chain of waveshapers, bitcrushers, slew limiters and filters, with new controls.
- AUv3: the host's project saves the state of each Vascular instance.

FIXES
- Tape feedback no longer builds into sustained full-level noise.
- 2-op in drone mode no longer fades to near silence.
- A duplicated holos plays its patch.

### 1.9 — 2026-09-29

NEW: SAMPLAYER

- Load your own loops (any audio file up to three minutes) and play them in Vascular.
- A loop plays as it is until you change it.
- Tape-style controls: speed, time-stretch, direction (forward, backward, back and forth), start and length, splice, flip and repeat.
- Sync fits the loop to the session's tempo and bars.
- Tap the node to randomise everything except sync.
- Find it under misc in the palette, beside the live input.

### 1.8 — 2026-09-28

NEW GENERATORS

- Lushpad: lush, breathing pads - a held drone, or chord progressions that play like themes, always in your key.
- Scanned: a ring of masses on springs, struck or bowed and read as a waveform - a steady note whose tone keeps moving.
- Cellular: cellular automata turned into sound, with a different character in every node.

RICHER ORGANISMS

- Every path now grows organisms that are more intricate and more interesting from the start: real networks, evenly balanced in volume and across the stereo field.
- The melodic path is more robust and more musical: acoustic instruments and the new lushpad, never crowded.
- On the rhythmic path, drones and pads pump with the kick.
- Every tonal node plays in the key of your session, and clocked voices play as proper beats.

ALSO NEW

- Favourites: long-press any node type in the palette, or tap fav in its controls, and find it under favourites in every session.
- A holos can now be wired like any generator.
- The guided tour is much easier to read.

FIXES

- The 6-op no longer falls silent, clocked voices no longer click, and the squine and cluster no longer drift, along with many smaller fixes.

### 1.7.3 — 2026-09-26

HOLOS - A NEW NODE TYPE, BUILT FOR YOU EVERY TIME

Every other node in Vascular is a single module. A holos instance is a whole patch in one node, assembled on the spot from the instrument's own modules - a module that has never existed before, and never the same twice.

- Choose it at the top of the palette, and it arrives as one electric blue node with a ring inside it: the patch within the node.
- Inside: a sound source (sometimes two, one modulating the other) and up to three processors.
- Wired four ways: in a chain, crossed, round a feedback loop, or split and mixed back.
- Patched the way a player would patch a semi-modular, not at random: it follows the path you are on (abstract, rhythmic or melodic) and draws only from that path's sounds.
- Filters and resonators before delays and spectral moves, a space only ever last, never more than one destructive stage.
- Eight knobs chosen from across the pieces inside are brought out to its own sliders - a cutoff from one module, a grain size from another, a feedback amount from the loop - each named for the knob and the module it came from.
- Tap it and every value inside is redrawn: the same patch, a new voice.
- Place another and you have a new instrument altogether.

ALSO NEW

- The looper belongs to the pattern: storing a pattern stores the gesture looper's layers, and recalling it brings them back. Record different loops of the same node into different patterns and move between them.
- Stop stops everything: the looper, angiogenesis and the fx sequencer all hold, while delays and reverbs ring out. Play carries on from where it stopped.
- Patterns are complete snapshots: a recall brings back every node's mute, filter, pitch, send, modulator and clock, and each slot carries the fx sequencer's lanes.
- New nodes arrive already voiced, their sliders showing their settings from the first moment.
- New processors start half wet, so a voice is heard through what is done to it.
- Global steering has a filter for holos.

AS A PLUGIN

- The host's transport plays and stops Vascular: press play in AUM or your DAW and it plays, press stop and it stops, with delays and reverbs ringing out. Its play button follows the host.
- The host's clock sets the tempo. Every clock, gate, sequence and woven phrase runs at the host's tempo and follows it when it changes; the tempo slider is greyed out and shows the host's value.
- Vascular keeps the host's tempo but keeps its own sense of time within it: it is not a step sequencer, and it does not lock its phrases to the host's bar lines.

FIXED

- Randomising a processor no longer produces a crushed, stuttering burst.
- Churn, chew and skip no longer click and pop.
- A rare crash in the prism processor.
- Clearing the canvas now empties the looper.

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