BLEASS Peaks vs VAPolyMk5

BLEASS Peaks turns filtering into a fully playable musical experience. Built around a powerful multi-peak bell-style filter engine, it lets you shape and animate sound in ways that go far beyond traditional effects. Create rich filter responses with up to 32 resonant peaks or notches, and sculpt their distribution, width, and behavior with intuitive controls. Everything is designed to be both immediate and deep, so you can quickly dial in a sound and push it into more experimental territory. Switch to MIDI mode and Peaks reveals its true potential. The filter becomes an instrument you can play, with frequency controlled directly from incoming notes. With up to eight simultaneous filter voices, you can turn rhythms into harmonies, add movement to static sounds, or create evolving textures that follow your performance. A comprehensive modulation system brings constant motion and life to your sound. 3 LFOs, envelopes, macros, and MIDI sources can be freely assigned to parameters, making it easy to build subtle movement or complex, reactive behaviors. BLEASS Peaks also includes a flexible effects section with five processing slots, allowing you to shape and enhance your sound further with distortion, dynamics, delay, and filtering. Every stage can be modulated, opening the door to deeply expressive and evolving effects. Despite its depth, Peaks remains fast, fluid, and intuitive to use. Its responsive interface, real-time visualization, and performance-ready controls make it equally at home in the studio or on stage. From precise tonal shaping to bold, animated transformations, BLEASS Peaks gives you a new way to hear and perform your sound. Optimized for iOS, it delivers high performance, low CPU usage, and a smooth, touch-friendly workflow built for modern music production. BLEASS Peaks Plugin is also available for Desktop. More information about BLEASS Peaks on www.bleass.com/peaks

VAPolyMk5 is bitimbral polyphonic synthesizer. Main feature of Mk5 is re-designed step sequencer which contains one note sequencer and three modulation sequencers. Oscillator feature hard sync and through zero FM. Low pass Filter is modeled on cascaded OTA -24dB per octave low pass filter circuit. Each synthesizer consists of three oscillators, resonant low pass and high pass filter, amplifier, three envelope generators, two LFO and key tracking. Two synthesizers can be configured as layer or split. Mk5 also features global LFO, output morphing, classic ring modulator and easy target assignment for mod wheel and aftertouch. VAPolyMk5 operates as a stand alone or as an AudioUnit Extension (AUv3) for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Stand Alone supports Ableton Link, MIDI and audio file export. Built-in Effects include delay, chorus, flanger, reverb, eq and compressor. Project files can be saved in iCloud Drive, so that the project can be accessed from iPhone, iPad or Mac. Main Features Bi-timbral Polyphonic Synthesizer Oscillators feature hard sync and through zero FM. Low pass Filter is modeled on cascaded OTA -24dB per octave low pass filter circuit. Re-designed step sequencer Re-designed offset control Improved output morphing. Improved classic ring modulator. Improved key tracking Easy target assignment for mod wheel and aftertouch Maximum 8 voice polyphony. it depends on performance of the device it is running. Built-in effects and piano roll sequencer. Audio Export. Linear PCM format (AIFF, WAV and CAF) and compressed format (AAC) Support Audio Unit Extension (AUv3). Support MIDI 2.0. Support Foot Pedal and Per Note Control. Support Ableton Link, Bluetooth MIDI, MIDI In / Out. Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Support iCloud Drive to share project files between the platforms. General Improvements Support MIDI Foot Pedal (CC#11, CC#64) Support MIDI2.0 Per Note Control Messages MIDI CC Settings are saved. It will be recovered when the app launched in the next time. UI Color can be selected from black, navy, gray or blown. Adjustable text size for title of controls Factory Preset 208 Synth CH Preset 256 Effect Preset 40 Default & Macro 8 System Requirements iOS 17.0 or later macOS 14.0 or later Devices with Apple Silicon are recommended. A13 Fusion or above is highly recommended. AudioUnit Extension (AUv3) requires host application which support AudioUnit Extension. AudioUnit Extension is supported by Apple Logic and Apple Garage Band on iOS and macOS. For any other DAW, it depends on the application and some of them don’t support AudioUnit Extension. Sound may be distorted if CPU of the device doesn't have enough power. If it happens reduce number of voices or enable Low Power Mode in setting panel. App launches in Low Power Mode in the first time on device with iOS earlier than iOS 18.0 as mono-timbral.