Grainsmith Field vs SignatureDYN

Grainsmith Field is a granular instrument for iPad and iPhone. Load a sound or record one live, then pull it apart into grains. Stretch and scatter it until it stops sounding like the source, or pitch it and play it like an instrument. It shares its granular engine with our desktop Grainsmith plugin, but it's rebuilt for touch. Field is a single multitouch screen: four XY pads control paired parameters (Density and Size, Jitter and Spread, Pitch and Reverse, Cutoff and Resonance), and a Morph control sweeps several at once. THREE PLAYHEADS Run up to three independent grain streams from one sample at the same time. Each head has its own position, speed, pitch, level, pan, grain size, and spread. Grab a playhead line on the waveform to move it independently, or move them as a group. Double-tap to gather them. Set a second head a fifth or an octave away and the streams blend into a single granular texture. MODULATION Six modulation slots drive the controls: LFOs and Euclidean patterns with per-route depth, assigned by long-pressing a knob. The MOVE dial sets the Morph macro itself in motion, and each destination drifts on its own phase. Rates sync to tempo, in the app or from the host clock. RECORD AND MANGLE Capture audio from your hardware input and granulate it as it comes in, or loop a phrase and let the engine chew on it. Scrub the waveform directly. Freeze the grain cloud to hold a sound for as long as you want. Run the stereo delay to smear the grain tails into echoes; it syncs to tempo too. Export captures as WAV to the Files app. RECORD YOUR PERFORMANCE Start a recording from the presets menu and everything you play is captured to a WAV file. Keep playing through app switches and screen locks; a Lock Screen Live Activity shows while recording runs. Recordings save to the Files app and share straight from Field. PLAY IT AS AN INSTRUMENT Switch to Instrument mode and play the grain engine from a MIDI keyboard: four-voice polyphony, an attack/release envelope, and a root-note control. The pitch ribbon snaps to musical intervals: Free, Chromatic, Scale, Octaves, or Oct+5ths, with twelve scale options and a probability control. Works with hardware MIDI in the standalone app and with host MIDI in AUv3. USE IT IN YOUR HOST The AUv3 music effect loads in AUM, Logic for iPad, and other AUv3 hosts. Parameters are exposed for host automation and MIDI learn. Your patch saves and restores with the session, including head count, every per-head control, the modulation slots, and pitch snap mode. ALSO IN THE BOX - Ten factory presets grouped by character, with a browser and a Favorites section for your own - Background audio: the standalone keeps playing when you switch apps - Reverb, stereo delay with tempo sync, filter, grain-shape windows, pitch randomization - Runs on iPhone with a compact layout No account and no subscription. Field collects no data.

SignatureDYN - Compressor / Gate / Limiter SignatureDYN is a professional 3-in-1 dynamics processor for iPhone and iPad. It combines a peak compressor, a smooth noise gate, and a brick-wall limiter in a single AUv3 plugin - covering the complete dynamics processing chain in one insert slot. Compressor Hard-knee peak compressor with independent attack and release. Threshold from −60 to 0 dB, ratio from 1:1 to 20:1. Transparent at low ratios, aggressive at high ratios. Gate Exponential noise gate with smooth closing - 3× slower than opening to avoid clicks and unnatural cutoffs. A dedicated LED indicator lights when the gate is active, making threshold setting precise and visual. Limiter Brick-wall output limiter with fixed 0.1 ms attack. No signal exceeds the set ceiling. Release follows the compressor release time. Default ceiling −0.3 dB — transparent protection always on. Metering Real-time Input VU meter and Gain Reduction meter with dB scale. Signal presence LED. Features AUv3 Audio Unit Extension - loads in AU EngineCore and any AUv3 compatible host Zero latency Full parameter automation Responsive UI - iPhone and iPad, portrait and landscape 7 automatable parameters: Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release, Makeup Gain, Gate, Limiter #nobodysbanda