AudioKit Hey Metronome vs SynthMaster 2

Practicing becomes fun again! Whether your passion is guitar, brass, piano, strings, drums, woodwind, voice, dance, band – Hey Metronome is for YOU! “Hey Metronome app could change the way you practice.” – Music Radar "A must-have” – Create Digital Music “Hey Metronome is top-notch.” – Synth Anatomy "Best New Apps!" – Cult of Mac “It's got the groove, I like this!” – Roger Linn (Grammy-winnner, Music Tech Legend) “I can keep my hands on my violin, this is GREAT!” – Shen Yeh, San Francisco Philharmonic Orchestra // Played with Metallica & Megadeath • Fun and professional, yet simple enough for kids • Ditch the Click: Drum sounds by pro sound designers • Use your voice to play, stop, set the tempo, and more • Includes over a dozen themes. You can create your own themes. • Choose from 100+ subdivision & accent combinations • Use Ableton Link to control tempo in your favorite apps “Hey Metronome allows you to play and practice hands-free using voice commands. Effortless play and productivity—all without touching a device.” – KVR Audio Violinists never have to take their hands off their bow. Guitarists can keep their hands on their strings. This is magical. IT SOUNDS SO GOOD YOU’LL FORGET IT’S A METRONOME “You’ll experience drum beats, classic booming drum machines, and sounds designed to inspire and limit ear fatigue.” – KVR Audio • Full Setlist & Song system. Change songs hands free • Pick your time signatures, or through voice commands • Friendly and encouraging: upbeat motivational messages • Keep your hands on your instrument while you practice • Customize the background with family, pets, or band pics With Hey Metronome, you can put your earbuds on and control everything with your voice, from tempo and meter, to beat patterns, to even what song you are practicing. Just say, “Hey metronome set the tempo to 120,” “Hey metronome, shuffle,” or “Hey Metronome, next song,” and you’re off. GREAT FOR BANDS! "This is by far my favorite metronome app! Store tempos for songs and write setlists (drag & drop). It even responds to your voice! So many options, all easy!” – Ryan Chrys, award-winning guitar player / touring band leader “Hey Metronome impressed the heck out of me!” – Tim Webb, editor of Discchord Plus, you're supporting open-source and music education! • 100% of proceeds from this app go to support the AudioKit open-source project • Open Source: Metronome app source code will be released • No Internet required for Voice Control • Practice in airplane mode. Complete data privacy! “Hey Metronome: Now you can get hands-free metronome features while you practice and play – without worrying about privacy or needing signal” – Create Digital Music Please note that we all are volunteers. AudioKit does not have any sponsors or investors. We are all musician/developers who love making apps. Want to see Hey Metronome in action? Visit our website: http://audiokitpro.com/hey-metronome/ For friendly conversation about Hey Metronome, ideas, or to say hello, please email aure@audiokitpro.com

KV331 Audio is proud to announce the availability of their award winning software synthesizer SynthMaster 2.9 on iOS platform. As being the first app developed using KV331 Audio’s new cross-platform UI framework, SynthMaster 2 runs as a standalone app or AUv3 plugin on iPads with iOS 11 and above. SynthMaster 2 supports native resolutions of various iPad devices. User interfaces are provided for 9.7, 11 and 12.9 inch iPads in 4 different skins (Blue, White, Dark, Proto). Separate interfaces are provided for the AudioUnit plugin as well. SynthMaster 2 comes with 1000 factory presets designed by world class sound designers such as BigTone, Nori Ubukata, NatLife and Yuli Yolo. Thanks to the comprehensive preset browsing features, users can easily filter presets by author name, bank name, instrument type or preset name and find the sounds that they are looking for. There’s also an IAP Shop, which lets users purchase additional sounds: 1. "Desktop Presets Upgrade": This IAP adds all factory presets in SynthMaster 2.9, increasing the total preset count to 2000. 2. "All Expansions Bundle": This IAP adds all current 38 SynthMaster preset expansion banks. Sound Engine: At the heart of SynthMaster 2’s powerful sound engine lies its oscillators, modulators, and filters. Oscillators: The oscillators can operate in 4 different modes to generate sound: 1. In Basic mode, the oscillator plays single cycle waveforms or samples. With the Oscillator Unison turned on, up to 8 voices per oscillator can be played. 2. In Additive mode, 8 Basic oscillators can be stacked up to create richer tones. 3. In Wavetable mode, the oscillator can play wavetables with up to 256 frames. 4. In Vector mode, 4 Basic oscillators are mixed in 2 dimensions. Modulators: Modulators are simply basic oscillators that can be added to other oscillators or modulate other oscillators’ or modulators’ phases. By connecting modulators to other oscillators or modulators, complex FM tones can be synthesized. Importing Wave Files into SynthMaster: While designing sounds, users can easily import wave files into SynthMaster 2. SynthMaster 2 can categorize those files into waveforms, wavetables or multi samples and import them accordingly. Filters: Once the sound is generated by the oscillators it goes through SynthMaster’s filters, which can operate in 6 different categories: Digital, VAnalog, Ladder, Diode Ladder, State Variable and Bite. Custom distortion can be applied before or after the filters as well. Modulation Architecture: SynthMaster 2 features a comprehensive modulation architecture with a wide range of modulation sources: 1. MIDI controls 2. Macros controls 3. 4 ADSR envelopes per layer 4. 4 Multisegmented envelopes per payer 5. 4 LFOs per layer 6. 4 Sequencers per layer 7. 4 Keyscalers per layer There’s real-time visual feedback that lets users see how modulation sources and targets are changing when a note is being played. This is extremely helpful when designing sounds with SynthMaster 2. New modulations can be created easily by dragging and dropping a modulation source onto a knob or slider control. Users can easily see which controls are modulated by a modulation source by clicking on that source. Controls that are being modulated by that source will display modulation amounts. By long pressing a control, the modulation amount can be edited without the need to go through the mod matrix. Arp/Sequencer: SynthMaster features a comprehensive arpeggiator / sequencer with 32 steps. Users can easily create sequences by recording steps one by one. Effects: Each of the 2 layers in SynthMaster has 5 insert effect slots. 13 different types of effects can be instantiated in any of those slots. There are also 2 global effect send busses which can be used to create more complex effect routings.