Stark Amp Simulator vs Cube Synth Pro

STARK is a fully fledged amplifier simulator consisting of four modules: Amplifier, Cabinet, Room and effects slots. These modules are processing audio separately, which makes it possible to combine different amplifiers with different cabinets and rooms. The amp module offers 12 different amplifier profiles. It has both a clean mode and a overdrive mode, an equalizer functionality (including presence), and a booster controlling the end stage amplification saturation. Cabinet simulation consists of 10 different cabinets of various sizes and sound. This module also offers a stereo width knob that simulates the distance between two microphones put in front of the cone. Room simulation offers 6 different kinds of rooms, where each room size can be changed between Small, Medium and Large. There’s also a decay parameter controlling reflectivity of the walls and a dry/wet mix. The pedal board contains 4 slots where any of the 14 effects can be inserted. The order of the pedals can easily be changed using drag and drop. Available amps • American Guitar 1 - An edgy amp that rounds of nicely at the top • American Guitar 2 - Similar to American Guitar 1, but with some more presence • British Guitar A 1 - Gives a full sound with crisp • British Guitar A 2 - Similar to British Guitar A 1, but with more body • British Guitar B 1 - A slightly saturated amp with nice character in the high mids • British Guitar B 2 - Is just like British Guitar B 1 a bit saturated, but with a more linear frequency response • Vintage Guitar - Gives that perfect thickness when playing jazz and soul • General Tube Amp - Low saturation with a fairly linear frequency response • Garage Sale Amp - Limited frequency response and saturates. The obvious LoFi choice • American Bass - A versatile pro bass amp • British Bass - Works fine for more edgy bass playing • Vintage Bass - Perfect for soul/jazz/RnB Available cabinets • Wide Small - Small speakers, lots of resonances • Tight Small - Small single speakers, few resonances • Wide Combo - Medium speakers, lots of resonances • Tight Combo - Medium speakers, few resonances • Wide Normal - Medium speakers, moderate resonances • Tight Large - Full range speakers, few resonances • Wide Large - Full range speakers, lots of resonances • Radiola - Small (broken) speakers, moderate resonances • Bass - Low end speaker/Medium speakers, few resonances • Passthrough - Full range speakers, no resonances Available ambiences • Normal - A good sounding recording room • Dark - A room that gives attenuated high frequencies • Bright - More significant reflections at higher frequencies • Cold - A room with attenuated low frequencies • Warm - Gives a livingroom:ish sound • Boomy - Loud and lots of resonances Available FX pedals • Delay - Digital stereo delay • Chorus - Classic chorus • Flanger - Flanger with feedback, tone, speed, mix and amount • Phaser - Classic phaser with the option to decide how many stages to be used • Reverb - Digital reverb • Vibrato - A stereo vibrato with reshapeable curve • Tremolo - A stereo tremolo with reshapeable curve • Equalizer - 6 band peak filter with fixed frequencies • Compressor - Simple one-knob compressor • Booster - Signal booster (gain, bass and treble) • Distortion - Simple distortion pedal with tone control • Distortion+ - Complex distortion pedal with optional distortion algorithms • Gate - Simple gate • Multiband Gate - Four band spectral gate There are also about 100 predefined factory presets covering most scenarios. Full documentation available inside the app or at https://klevgrand.se/downloads/stark-docs/ Audio examples and more info at https://klevgrand.se/products/stark Note: STARK consumes a lot of CPU and RAM, so if you’re having trouble using multiple instances at the same time, try to freeze some tracks and/or increase the buffer size.

Cube Synth Pro brings you the power and complexity of additive synthesis to your iPad studio. This kind of synthesis is well known for its potential capability of creating virtually any sound you can think of. But it’s also well renown for its huge amount of parameters you have to control for reasonable results. Therefore only a few synthesisers exists which uses this mighty synthesis technology. With Cube Synth Pro this prejudice will no longer be true. Specific sound morphing capabilities enables you to easily create complex evolving sound scapes, vocal phrases or stunning rhythms simply by choosing up to four sound sources from a predefined set. Then add one of the predefined envelopes and a unique, complex sound preset containing thousands of parameters is created! If you want to dive deeper into the inner secrets of this synthesis monster you can manipulate each parameter individually to get precise control over the sound. A number of high level parameters such as Brightness and Harmonic spread control hundreds of synthesis parameters in a way modelled after the inner workings of natural instruments. In addition to emulating natural instruments Cube Synth Pro gives you the ability to mimic the behaviour of the sound characteristic of vintage polyphonic synths by modelling the slight deviation from perfection which are inherent of analog systems. Cube Synth Pro gives you also a new method of getting randomly generated sound patches in a way you never experienced before: roll the dice! Every single try gives you a new unique sound patch, really every try, promised… Synthesis • Over 400 sound presets • Four morphing sound sources • Up to 512 partials per voice • Harmonic/Inharmonic spectra • User programmable noise spectra • Morphing filter banks • Unison mode with up to 8 oscillators per voice • Unique voice detuning scheme to simulate imperfections of poly analog synths. • 3 Envelopes with 64 time/level segments and tempo sync • Multi level random preset generator • 64 time/level segments per envelope Arpeggiator • Uses programmable sequences with up to 32 steps. • Can trigger single notes and chords. • Unique randomizer generates Arpeggios with 100% usability. • 32 Arpeggios included, unlimited useer arpeggios possible. • For each step you can program tie, accent, transposition and note order Effects • Chorus • Phaser • Overdrive • Ensemble • Echo/Delay • Reverb Global • Standalone App • AudioUnit AUv3 • Audiobus 3 compatible (Input slot) with state saving • Support for Ableton Link. • CoreMIDI / Virtual MIDI / Bluetooth MIDI • Audio recorder.