Pixound vs Wavimus

"Pixound Turns Photos into Musical Instruments, and It’s Better Than You Think" — Gizmodo "Pixound is a trippy music app for iOS that allows users to turn any snap into a song." — MTV Hive Enjoyed by top musical artists including: Herbie Hancock, David Byrne (Talking Heads), Mark Mothersbaugh (DEVO), Michael Shrieve (Santana) and many more. Have you ever jammed on Saturn's Rings with a whammy bar? Have you ever played the rainbow? What about you're dog's nose? What does it sound like? How about creating your own music just by dancing? With Pixound you can do all this and much more! Pixound is a revolutionary form of musical entertainment! Pixound provides a deep musical experience that lets YOU instantly create music using any picture. It's pure fun to play (at any age) and deep because it can be used to play music like you've never heard before. It's so much fun that artist Peter Max bought an iPhone just to have Pixound! Since there is no limit to what pictures you can play from art and graphics to photos and they can be combined with thousands of different musical settings, there is no limit to the music you can create and enjoy. You owe it to yourself to try Pixound!!! By the way, you will learn a lot about music just playing with Pixound so it's also an educational tool, sometimes referred to as a Deep Toy. Features: • Play any picture from snaps to outer space to art masterpieces • Play Live Video (in-app purchase) so that reality becomes a musical instrument • Record audio or use effects processors via Audiobus 2.1 or Inter-app Audio • Record performances including where you touched in the photo that plays back for others to see. • Play in any key or scale (over 65 scales/modes) • Add Bass and Drums from lots of choices • Tons of musical controls to create a huge variety of great music • Select from many different autoplay styles including device tilt • Add harmony voices • Add Song Progressions from basic to classical and more • Select from over 127 instruments for four voices R, B, G and bass • Import samples using AudioShare™ • Save your own settings to Banks and share with others via community or email • Built-in Reverb • Save MIDI files and go direct out to MIDI synthesizers (in-app purchase) • Access and share your creations with the Pixound Community

Wavimus is a deep wavetable synthesizer for iPhone and iPad (iOS 18+). Optimized for touch, Wavimus offers crisp stereo output for mobile musicians, sound designers, and producers looking for advanced synthesis workflows standalone or inside an iOS DAW. Standalone App & AUv3 Plug-In Deploy Wavimus in two distinct configurations that seamlessly share user presets: • Standalone App: A full-screen production environment with an on-screen mini keyboard, real-time output oscilloscope waveform display. • AUv3 Instrument Plug-In: Connect inside compatible hosts like GarageBand or AUM. It appears natively as "Wavimus”. Advanced Oscillators & Morphing • Three Wavetable Oscillators (WT 1–3): Features level, coarse/fine tuning, octave offset, and phase modes (restart on note-on or free-running). Morph across 64 frames (256 samples per bank) manually or via automatic scan sweeps with variable LFO shapes. • 21 Procedural Banks: Morph across characteristic timbres including Sine→Saw, Tri→Square, Glass additive, Warm drive, Beating detune, Odd harmonics, PWM brass, Formant choir, Fold ice, Phase warp, Step crush, Sub grind, FM metal, Pulse ripper, Fold hell, Ring comb, Sync tear, Crush scrape, Reso skream, Chaos stairs, and Growl sub. • Sub & Noise: Dedicated sine-based sub layer for bass weight and a customizable noise oscillator (white, pink, brown). Includes independent ADSR+hold amp envelopes per oscillator slot. ZDF Filters & Modulation Matrix • Dual ZDF Filters: Independent virtual-analog style filter modules (Filter A and B) with zero-delay feedback topology and non-linear drive saturation. Includes low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and notch modes (12/24 dB slopes), logarithmic cutoff mapping (20 Hz–22 kHz), resonance, key tracking, pre/post drive, and series/parallel routing. • 64-Slot Mod Matrix: Up to 64 many-to-many routes with bipolar depth. Sources include LFOs 1-3, envelopes (amp/mod 1-3), velocity, mod wheel, pitch bend, performance macros 1-4, and pressure (poly/channel aftertouch). Targets include pitch, levels, wavetable positions, filter settings, LFO rates, effect mix, and delay tape speed. Multi-Effects & Parametric EQ • Dedicated Global FX: Includes a global Delay (ping-pong/tape types with mix, time, feedback, tape speed), an 8-channel FDN algorithmic Reverb with modulated delay reads for lush tails, and Distortion (bitcrusher, saturator, tape). • 5-Slot Serial Effects Chain: Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Modulation-style EQ, and a Compressor. • Master Parametric EQ: An 8-band EQ separate from the serial chain with an interactive curve display, 2x oversampling high-quality mode, and stereo, left/right, or mid/side routing. Polyphony, MPE & Randomization • Voicing & Stacking: Up to 16 voices with poly/mono/legato voicing modes, portamento/glide, and unison stacking up to 16 detuned voices with stereo spread. • Master Processing: DSP master soft limiting features polyphony-aware gain scaling to safely minimize clipping on chords. • Sound Design Dice: Global patch randomization across three intensities (Nice, Medium, Chaos) plus per-oscillator module dice targeting related routes. • Integration & Styles: Optional MPE mode with per-note pitch bend, timbre, and pressure expression alongside standard Core MIDI input. Supports dark or light theme options with 18 custom accent color presets.