Omnisound vs Tessera Sequenced Resonator

Omnisound is a playable electronic chord instrument inspired by the classic synth-harps of the 1980s. Tap a chord, sweep your finger across the sonic strings, add a rhythm and you're making music in seconds. No theory, no setup. Whether you're a songwriter sketching ideas, a beginner who wants to sound great instantly, or you just love the warm, retro character of vintage electronic instruments, Omnisound puts a whole band under your fingertips. Use it on its own, or drop it straight into GarageBand, Logic, AUM and other apps as an Audio Unit plugin on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Play it live on the touchscreen and record every chord, strum, and melody right into your project. With full MIDI in and out, you can play Omnisound from any keyboard or controller, or use it to drive your other gear.

Tessera is a tuned resonator. Play a drum loop, a guitar, a vocal, or a field recording into it, and it blooms that sound into twelve pitched voices that ring, shimmer, and decay in tune. At its core are twelve parallel resonators, each locked to a note of a chord or scale you choose. Whatever you feed them excites those voices, so a single hit becomes a lush chord, a sustained pad, or a slowly evolving cloud. Pick a root and a scale, from majors and minors through ninths, elevenths, whole tone, and chromatic, and the whole instrument retunes at once. Choose from eleven resonator models: plucked strings, struck bells, singing bowls, glass, membranes, tuned bars, plates, and hollow tubes. Shape each one with decay, damping, brightness, and stereo spread, moving from tight and percussive to vast and cathedral-like. Five motion engines decide how the voices arrive: Contour spreads them into shimmering, arpeggiated waves. SEQ steps each voice through its own rhythmic pattern. Strum rakes across the chord like fingers on strings. Arp cycles the voices one note at a time. Swarm lets them weave and drift around a moving center. Any of it can lock to your host tempo, so rhythmic patches stay in time. Play Tessera three ways: leave MIDI off and let the resonators sound on their own tuning, key them live from a keyboard, or gate them with held chords. Balance the effect with the dry and wet mix, blur the tails with the diffusion stage, and add motion with the built-in vibrato LFO. Microtonal tunings are supported for the pitch-obsessed. One hundred factory presets get you going, from plucks and drones to bells, rhythmic sequences, strummed chords, arpeggios, and dark cinematic textures. Tessera runs as an AUv3 plug-in inside your favorite host, and as a standalone app.